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

Duff, Paul B.

ISBN 10: 019513835X / ISBN 13: 9780195138351

Published by Oxford University Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who Rides the Beast?: Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019513835X
• ISBN 13: 9780195138351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Paul B. Duff is Associate Professor of Religion at the George Washington University.