Download or read book Who Rides the Beast? written by Paul B. Duff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a different viewpoint on the origin of the Book of Revelation as a rhetorically sophisticated response to an internal leadership crisis within the churches. Evidence is taken from social, economic and literary contexts of the time.