TY - BOOK AU - Duff,Paul Brooks ED - Oxford University Press. TI - Who rides the beast?: prophetic rivalry and the rhetoric of crisis in the churches of the Apocalypse AV - BS2825.2 U1 - 228.06 22 PY - 2001/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Oxford; Oxford University Press; 2009; (Oxford Scholarship Online); Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher); Available as searchable text in HTML format; Access restricted to subscribing institutions N2 - 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 UR - http://ezproxy.lib.gla.ac.uk/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/019513835X.001.0001 ER -