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. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCG9; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468. . 2001. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Who Rides the Beast?: Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse
Publisher: OUP USA
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 019513835X
ISBN 13: 9780195138351
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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. 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.

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

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