Who Rides the Beast? - Prophetic Rivalry Rhetoric of Crisis in Churches of Apocalypse

Zusatztext This book offers fascinating insights into the social realities of first-century urban life, and reveals the extent to which letters and heavenly visions are woven together into an apocalyptic whole. Klappentext The Book of Revelation presents the reader with a frightening narrative world in which the people of God are tormented! threatened! and sometimes killed by various agents of Satan. Scholars have traditionally thought that it was written in order to encourage believers to stand fast in the face of the Roman persecution of the early Church. More recently! however! it has been argued that no such crisis existed at the time the book was written. Here Paul Duff offers a different viewpoint on the origin of the Book of Revelation! resulting in a work which substantially advances the implication of the current consensus and sheds new light on this influential yet enigmatic text. Zusammenfassung This study offers a different viewpoint on the origin of the Book of Revelation as a rhetorically sophisticated response to an internal leadership crisis within the churches. The author marshals evidence from the social, economic and literary context of the time.

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• Authors: Paul B. Duff, Paul B. (Associate Professor of Religion and Duff, Paul Brooks Duff
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2001
• EAN: 9780195138351
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513835-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations, The Early Church