Who rides the beast? prophetic rivalry and the rhetoric of crisis in the churches of the Apocalypse
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. Evidence is taken from social, economic and literary contexts of the time
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2001, 2001
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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. Evidence is taken from social, economic and literary contexts of the time |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 189 p. |
ISBN: | 9780199834150 0199834156 |