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His fascinating book, erudite yet also intensely personal, asks us to recall Apocalypse through a careful exegesis of Revelation's deeper literary currents against the backdrop of imperial Rome. He explores the narrrator's literary identity, the plot or journey of the text, its many ocular and aural dimensions, and the ambiguous temporal dimensions of its \"past vision of a future time.\" Revelation, he believes, \"offers an inversion of the violent and militaristic ideals of a first-century Roman Empire by offering a highly ironical political parody of imperial politics and insisting the true power belongs to the hero of the Apocalypse, the Slain Lamb.\"In the end, \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Recalled\u003c\/i\u003eseeks to free the imprisoned John of Patmos and employ his massively influential and controversial text to awaken a sleeping, sidelined, and culturally assimilated church to new imperatives of discipleship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA responsible study that rescues the Book of Revelation from fundamentalist interpretations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA call to understand and emulate the early church's relationship to political power\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA creative hypothesis about the literary character of the book\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560695439633,"sku":"GOR005587097","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50305297285393,"sku":"CIN0800634926G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697276686609,"sku":"NGR9780800634926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52134650380561,"sku":"NLS9780800634926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0800634926.jpg?v=1751075522"},{"product_id":"new-testament-christianity-in-the-roman-world-book-harry-o-maier-9780190264406","title":"New Testament Christianity in the Roman World","description":"What did it mean to be a Christian in the Roman Empire? 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In all of these various realms, concepts of sacrifice, belief, patronage, poverty, Jewishness, integration into city life, and the social constitution of identity are explored as important facets of early Christianity as a lived religion. Maier encourages readers to think of early Christianity not simply as an abstract and disconnected set of beliefs and practices, but as made up of a host of social interactions and pluralisms. 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