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Authors: C. Wess Daniels
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Revelation speaks to the reality that we are caught in the fray of cosmic conflict. We are guilty. We've already been contaminated. But it's not too late for us
Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.
The Nonviolent Apocalypse
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Authors: Jeffrey D. Meyers
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-08 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Revelation is resistance literature, written to instruct early Christians on how to live as followers of Jesus in the Roman Empire. The Nonviolent Apocalypse us
Apocalypse Against Empire
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Authors: Anathea Portier-Young
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The year 167 B.C.E. marked the beginning of a period of intense persecution for the people of Judea, as Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes attempted -- for
Visions of Resistance
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Despite its violent language and imagery, the book of Revelation is an important text for the study of nonviolence in the New Testament. It both employs and adv