Download or read book Revolt of the Scribes written by Richard A. Horsley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If earlier scholarship on apocalyptic literature was once described as "clueless about apocalypticism," it was due in part to a focus on questions of definition, literary genre, and theological eccentricity. Richard A. Horsley takes a different approach, letting the language of the apocalypses themselves reveal their chief concern: the expanding domination by foreign empires and the form that popular defiance should take. Most telling are the traces where Judean scribes wrote themselves into their texts-and thus into God's purposes in history. Book jacket.