On the social setting of the revelation to John

New Testament Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 232-256

  Slater, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0028688500016490     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. E.g., M. Kiddle, The Revelation of St John (MNTC; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940) xxxix-xl;
2. T. F. Glasson, The Revelation of John (CBCNEB; Cambridge: CUP, 1965) 6-9;
3. G. E. Ladd, A Commentary on the Revelation of John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972) 8;
4. R. H. Mounce, The Book of Revelation (NICNT 17; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977) 32-5.
5. Cf. S. R. F. Price, Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor (Cambridge: CUP, 1984) 197-8.
6. Others have taken his observation further: see J. P. M. Sweet, Revelation (TPINTC; London: SCM, 1979, 1990) 21-35;
7. Richard Bauckham, The Theology of the Book of Revelation (Cambridge: CUP, 1993) 1-22;
8. Leonard L. Thompson, The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire (New York: OUP, 1990) 95-197.
9. Adela Yarbro Collins, Crisis and Catharsis (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984) 54-110;
10. Gerhard A. Krodel, Revelation (ACNT; Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1989) 35-9;
11. R. W. Wall, Revelation (NIBC 18; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991) 10-12.
12. H. W. Pleket, 'Domitian, the Senate and the Provinces', Mnemosyne 14 (1961) 296-315.
13. See also D. Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor to the End of the Third Century after Christ (2 vols.; Princeton: Princeton U., 1950) 1.566-92;
14. B. Reicke, The New Testament Era (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1968) 272;
15. B. W. Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routiedge, 1992) 114;
16. and my own review in Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 20 (1992-3) 139-41.
17. P. Viscusi, 'Studies on Domitian' (PhD. diss.; Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1973) 94.
18. Bauckham, Theology, 12-17. In private discussion, I have learned that Thompson, Aune, Barr, and Wilson hold similar views concerning the function of the letters.
19. C. H. H. Scobie, 'Local References in the Letters to the Seven Churches', NTS 39 (1993) 606-24.
20. D. E. Aune comes to similar conclusions concerning the letters, but he fails to discern the implications for an investigation of the social setting (D. E. Aune, 'The Form and Function of the Proclamation to the Seven Churches (Revelation 2-3)', NTS 36 [1990] 182-204).
21. J. H. Elliott, A Home for the Homeless (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981) 21-58.
22. see, for example, discussions in the following works: W. Marxsen, Introduction to the New Testament (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968);
23. W. G. Kümmel, Introduction to the New Testament (Nashville: Abingdon, 1975);
24. H. Koester, Introduction to the New Testament (2 vols.; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982);
25. E. D. Freed, The New Testament: A Critical Introduction (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1986);
26. R. A. Spivey and D. M. Smith, Anatomy of the New Testament (5th ed.; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995).
27. D. G. Miller, On this Rock: A Commentary on First Peter (Allison Park, PA: Pickwick, 1993) 40;
28. Those who argue for a post-70 date include F. W. Beare, The First Epistle of Peter (2nd ed., rev.; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958) 9-19;
29. C. F. D. Moule, 'The Nature and Purpose of 1 Peter', NTS 3 (1956-7) 1-11.
30. Cf. B. Reicke, The Epistles of James, Peter, and Jude (AB 37; Garden City: Doubleday, 1964) 69-75;
31. P. H. Davids, The First Epistle of Peter (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990) 7-9;
32. P. Perkins, First and Second Peter, James, and Jude (Interpretation; Louisville: John Knox, 1995) 15-16;
33. Moule, NTS 3, 1-11;
34. A. N. Sherwin-White, The Letters of Pliny: A Historical and Social Commentary (Oxford: Clarendon, 1966) 772-87.
35. E.g., W. M. Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire (London, 1893);
36. E. G. Hardy, Christianity and the Roman Government (2nd ed.; London, 1906);
37. A. Heller, 'Toward a Sociology of Knowledge of Everyday Life', Cultural Hermeneutics 3 (1975) 10.
38. Yarbro Collins, Crisis, 100;
39. cf. C. C. Rowland, The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity (New York: Crossroad, 1982) 412-13.
40. See S. G. Wilson, Related Strangers (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1995) 1-35. I am appreciative to Graham N. Stanton for directing me to this study.
41. Cf. Rowland, Open Heaven, 409.
42. See also R. Stark, 'The Class Basis of Early Christianity from a Sociological Model', Sociological Analysis 47 (1986) 225.
43. See, e.g., W. Dittenberger, ed., Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae (OGIS) (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1903-5) 54, 212, 245;
44. F. W. Walbank, The Hellenistic World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1982) 209-26;
45. J. M. Reynolds, 'Further Information on Imperial Cult in Aphrodisias', St. Cl. 24 (1986) 109-17.
46. see also N. Kokkinos, Antonia Agusta: Portrait of a Great Lady (London: Routiedge, 1992) 158-62.
47. J. Ferguson, The Religions of the Roman Empire (Surrey: Thames & Hudson, 1970) 93-8.