Paolo, profeti e prostitute: Giovanni a Patmos e la nascita 'ufficiale' di un genere

Starting from John's use of the term apokalypsis, a posteriori responsible for the birth of the homonymous literary genre, the article attempts to offer a more in-depth reading of Revelation through a Pauline lens. Just like Paul of Tarsus forty years before, and many of his heirs in the Roman province of Asia during the following decades, John of Patmos tries to redefine urban spaces, practices, and agents by interweaving ecstatic experience, pneumatic revelations, and Hebrew scriptures, and thus fostering in letter form a conflict on prophetic authority against some of his fellow-believers in Jesus, probably more prone to Pauline-oriented behaviors.