Who Rides the Beast?: Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195138351)

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.

Author: Paul B. Duff
ISBN-10: 019513835X
ISBN-13: 9780195138351
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2001
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d