Book: City of Gods: The New Jerusalem of John’s Revelation in Early Christianity (Brill, 2025)
As it turns out, my current line of research is all part of a very long-term project. The academic part of it started in 2016, when I was a master's student at Oxford. An assessed Oxford MSt paper turned into a KU Leuven MPhil thesis, which developed into a full KU Leuven dissertation, which was defended in 2022. A much developed version of the dissertation was then published by Brill. If you're interested in reading PART I of this multi-year study into the earliest reception of Revelation's image of the New Jerusalem, look no further than this fine volume here: City of Gods: The New Jerusalem of John’s Revelation in Early Christianity Brill Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Vol. 186 Nathan Betz 2025 This is the story of the great and final city of John’s Revelation. Plumbing the first three centuries of Christian literature, this careful narrative highlights the early significance of one of the most influential, evocative, and controversial i...
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