The Book of Revelation and Its Eastern Commentators: Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World

by Thomas Schmidt

In this volume, T.C. Schmidt offers a new perspective on the formation of the New Testament by examining it simply as a Greco-Roman 'testament', a legal document of great authority in the ancient world. His work considers previously unexamined parallels between Greco-Roman juristic standards and the authorization of Christianity's holy texts. Recapitulating how Greco-Roman testaments were created and certified, he argues that the book of Revelation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316519368
• ISBN13: 9781316519363
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"