Introduction / Adela Yarbro Collins -- The problem of apocalyptic genre and the Apocalypse of John / David Hellholm -- The Apocalypse of John and the problem of genre / David E. Aune -- The experience of the visionary and genre in the Ascension of Isaiah 6-11 and the Apocalypse of Paul / Martha Himmelfarb -- The genre and function of the Shepherd of Hermas / Carolyn Osiek -- The followers of the Lamb / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- A sociological analysis of tribulation in the Apocalypse of John / Leonard Thompson.