Who Rides the Beast?: Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse

by Paul B. Duff

The Book of Revelation presents the reader with a frightening narrative world in which the people of God are tormented, threatened, and sometimes killed by various agents of Satan. Scholars have traditionally thought that it was written in order to encourage believers to stand fast in the face of the Roman persecution of the early Church. More recently, however, it has been argued that no such crisis existed at the time the book was written. Here...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019513835X
• ISBN13: 9780195138351
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"