| Revelation, Second Edition Revised Edition Contributor(s): Knight, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1906055076 ISBN-13: 9781906055073 Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - General |
| Dewey: 228 |
| Series: Readings - A New Biblical Commentary |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.67 lbs) 212 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 the emperor 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. This is a reprint of the edition originally published in 1999. |
