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I intend to show in a future article that the Old English poem has so many structural devices in common with the Apocalypse as well as the Gospel of John Some critical works that discuss the apocalyptic in Old English literature are the following: Graham D. Caie, The Judgment Day Theme in Old English Poetry (Copenhagen: Nova, 1976), Walter Deering, The Anglo-Saxon Poets on the Judgment Day (Halle, 1890), and Hugh Keenan, "The Apocalyptic Vision in Old English Poetry" (Diss. Tennessee 1968 (DAI 30 [1969], 1138A). Robert Finnegan, "The Gospel of Nicodemus and The Dream of the Rood 148b-156," NM 79 (1978), 11-20), Monika Brzezinski, "The Harrowing of Hell, the Last Judgment, and 'The Dream of the Rood' NM 89 (1988),252-265, Martin Green, "Man, Time, and Apocalypse in The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and Beowulf (JEGP, 74 (1975): 502-518), Roberta Bux Bosse and Norman D. Hinton, ""Cynewulf and the Apocalyptic Vision," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1990): 279-293. I haven't come across any thorough study comparing the Apocalypse with Beowulf, however.