{"product_id":"the-book-of-revelation-apocalypse-and-empire","title":"The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbout seventy years after the death of Jesus  John of Patmos sent visionary messages to Christians in seven cities of western Asia Minor. These messages would eventually become part of the New Testament canon  as The Book of Revelation. What was Johns message? What was its literary form? Did he write to a persecuted minority or to Christians enjoying the social and material benefits of the Roman Empire? In search of answers to these penetrating questions  Thompson critically examines the language  literature  history  and social setting of the Book of the Apocalypse. Following a discussion of the importance of the genre apocalypse  he closely analyzes the form and structure of the Revelation  its narrative and metaphoric unity  the world created through Johns visions  and the social conditions of the empire in which John wrote. He offers an unprecedented interpretation of the role of boundaries in Revelation  a reassessment of the reign of the Emperor Domitian  and a view of tribulation that integrates the literary vision of Revelation with the reality of the lives of ordinary people in a Roman province. Throughout his study  Thompson argues that the language of Revelation joins the ordinary to the extra-ordinary  earth to heaven  and local conditions to supra-human processes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964046995509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195115805","price":40.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195115802.jpg?v=1770446659","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-book-of-revelation-apocalypse-and-empire","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}