Revelation (Readings Series)
Publisher: Sheffield
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781850759676
Subjects: Biblical concordances & commentaries; Books of the New Testament; Bible - Study - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Religion - Biblical Studies; Religion
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.