Author : Richard A. Horsley
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Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Revolt of the Scribes by : Richard A. Horsley
Download or read book Revolt of the Scribes written by Richard A. Horsley. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If earlier scholarship on apocalyptic literature was once described as "clueless about apocalypticism, " it was due in part to a focus on questions of definition, literary genre, and theological eccentricity. Richard A. Horsley takes a different approach, letting the language of the apocalypses themselves reveal their chief concern: the expanding domination by foreign empires and the form that popular defiance should take. Most telling are the traces where Judean scribes wrote themselves into their texts - and thus into God's purposes in history."--Jaquette du livre.