The Book of Revelation and its Eastern Commentators

Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World

The Book of Revelation and its Eastern Commentators
Thomas Schmidt
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31 Aug 2021 UK
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9781316519363
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In this volume, T. C. Schmidt offers a new perspective on the formation of the New Testament by examining it simply as a Greco-Roman ' testament' , a legal document of great authority in the ancient world. His work considers previously unexamined parallels between Greco-Roman juristic standards and the authorization of Christianity' s holy texts. Recapitulating how Greco-Roman testaments were created and certified, he argues that the book of Revelation possessed many testamentary characteristics that were crucial for lending validity to the New Testament. Even so, Schmidt shows how Revelation fell out of favor amongst most Eastern Christian communities for over a thousand years until commentators rehabilitated its status and reintegrated it into the New Testament. Schmidt uncovers why so many Eastern churches neglected Revelation during this period, and then draws from Greco-Roman legal practice to describe how Eastern commentators successfully argued for Revelation' s inclusion in the New Testaments of their Churches.
T. C. Schmidt is Visiting Assistant Professor at Fairfield University. He is the author of Hippolytus of Rome: Commentary on Daniel and Chronicon, Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary, and a forthcoming volume Isho' dad of Merv: Commentary on Daniel.
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ISBN-13: 9781316519363
Published: 31 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300

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