Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul
Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul

Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul

in Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

by Emma Wasserman

Pages 336
Publisher Yale University Press
Published 7/31/2018
ISBN-13 9780300204025
A reassessment of early Christian apocalypticism arguing that the texts are not so much myths about good versus evil as about divine politics and heroic submission

Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God’s dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interpretation and reframes these apocalyptic texts as myths about divine politics and heroic submission. A major scholarly contribution that ranges across Mediterranean and West Asian religious thought, this volume rethinks Paul’s Christ-myth as well as his most distinctive ethical teachings.

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