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Who Rides the Beast?

By Duff, Paul Brooks

Who Rides the Beast?

By Duff, Paul Brooks

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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. Throughout the work, the Apocalyse points to Rome as the predominant demonic agent. Scholars have traditionally thought that Revelation was written in order to encourage believers to stand fast in the face of the Roman persecutation of the early Church. More recently, however, it has been argued that no such crisis existed at the time the book was written. In this study, Paul Duff offers a different viewpoint on the origin of the Book of Revelation is a rhetorically sophisticated response to an internal leadership crisis within the churches. In support of this argument Duff marshals evidence from the social and economic context of the time, and from literary and rhetorical analyses of the text. The result is a work that substantially advances the implication of the current consensus and sheds new light on this influential yet enigmatic text.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
204
Release Date:
2001-05-31
Publication Date:
2001-05-31
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019513835X
ISBN13:
9780195138351
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
489 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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