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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Main Author: Duff, Paul Brooks
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2001, 2001
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