Who rides the beast? prophetic rivalry and the rhetoric of crisis in the churches of the Apocalypse /

Duff, Paul Brooks, 1952-

Who rides the beast? prophetic rivalry and the rhetoric of crisis in the churches of the Apocalypse / [electronic resource] : Paul B. Duff. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001. - xiii, 189 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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