Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul

by Emma Wasserman

Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interpretation and reframes Paul's apocalyptic texts as myths about politics in the world of divinity.

Wasserman argues that the most dominant historical-critical theories about Christian apocalypticism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300204027
• ISBN13: 9780300204025
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.5"