Revelation

Revelation
ISBN-10
1850759677
ISBN-13
9781850759676
Series
Revelation
Category
Religion
Pages
182
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Author
Jonathan Knight

Description

"This reading of Revelation views the text as John's response to the problem of social accommodation in the churches of Asia Minor. Knight works from the hypothesis, now increasingly argued in scholarly circles, that there was no persecution of the Christians by Domitian at the end of the first century CE, and he explains the references to martyrdom in the Apocalypse as mainly symbolic. Knight argues that John is creating awareness of a crisis in order to call his readers to a stricter pattern of behaviour than Paul had allowed when writing to the Corinthians. This readable chapter-by-chapter commentary on the book concludes with a section on the main theological ideas of Revelation." --Outside back cover.

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