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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Revelation 13"”.
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Up from Sea and Earth: Revelation 13:1, 11 in Context
… ways sea and earth have been interpreted in Revelation 13: 1 and 11, as chapter 2 exposes, prompts questions such as What did John mean in Rev 13:1, 11 by coming up from the sea and the earth or land? What could his original addressees have understood when they heard it for the first time? …
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Christianity and the state in the first century
… Paul's teachings about the State in Romans 13:1-7; and the third chapter is an exegetical discussion of Revelation 13 in which John assumes a very negative attitude towards the State. In the final short chapter the author draws the conclusion that as early as the first Christian century the …
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Contra Imperium : Biblical foundations of an anti-imperial theology.
… and the injustice of Babylon in its reading of Revelation. A response to this injustice has also been articulated in the last decade through the anti-imperial interpretation of Paul's letters by Richard A. Horsley and others. This dissertation partly seeks to assess the contribution of the …
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The Background and Meaning of the Image of the Beast in Rev. 13:14, 15
… of the motif of the image of the beast in Rev 13:14, 15, in order to answer the problem of the author’s intended meaning of the image of the beast to his first century Greco-Roman readers.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>There are six steps necessary to accomplish the task of this dissertation. These …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… of US foreign policy. They rendered the book of Revelation’s symbol of a “lamblike” beast that behaves like a “dragon” as a prophetic indictment against the United States for professing to champion civil and religious liberty while carrying out an imperialistic policy abroad. Challenging the …