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Imperial cults and the Apocalypse of John : reading Revelation in the ruins / Steven J. Friesen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2001.Description: xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195131533
  • 0195188217
  • 9780195131536
  • 9780195188219
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BS2825.6.F912.I474 2001
Contents:
Religious Criticism -- Logic of Participation -- Provincial Imperial Cults of Asia Under Augustus and Tiberius -- Provincial Cults from Gaius to Domitian -- Municipal Imperial Cults: A Survey -- Municipal Imperial Cults: Two Case Studies -- Groups and Individuals -- Imperial Cults as Religion -- Revelation, Resistance -- Revelation in Space and Time -- Centering Reality: Space and Time in Revelation -- Working with Myth -- Communities Worshipping Humans -- Worship and Authority -- Revelation in This World.
Review: "Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Revelation, to the understanding of the imperial cults, and to the relationship between the two, this innovative work will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the New Testament and Greco-Roman religion and history."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Religious Criticism -- Logic of Participation -- Provincial Imperial Cults of Asia Under Augustus and Tiberius -- Provincial Cults from Gaius to Domitian -- Municipal Imperial Cults: A Survey -- Municipal Imperial Cults: Two Case Studies -- Groups and Individuals -- Imperial Cults as Religion -- Revelation, Resistance -- Revelation in Space and Time -- Centering Reality: Space and Time in Revelation -- Working with Myth -- Communities Worshipping Humans -- Worship and Authority -- Revelation in This World.

"Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Revelation, to the understanding of the imperial cults, and to the relationship between the two, this innovative work will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the New Testament and Greco-Roman religion and history."--Jacket.

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