Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

STEVEN J. FRIESEN, Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Pp. xiii + 285. $49.95.

It is commonplace in the handbooks and commentaries to read that the Apocalypse of John was written at a time when John and other Christians suffered for refusing to worship the Roman emperor. Evidence for emperor worship is drawn primarily from second-century works authored in Rome by writers favoring the senatorial class, such as Tacitus, Pliny, and Suetonius, and secondarily from a few archaeological remains such as the ...

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