G K Beale 
We Become What We Worship [EPUB ebook] 
A Biblical Theology Of Idolatry

Abbreviations
Preface
1 Introduction
2 AFoundational Example of Becoming Like What We Worship
Isaiah 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3 Becoming Like What We Worship
Evidence Elsewhere in the Old Testament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 The Origin of Idolatry in the Old Testament
5 Becoming Like What We Worship
Judaism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
6 Becoming Like What We Worship
The Gospels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
7 Idolatry in Acts
8 Becoming Like What We Worship
Paul’s Epistles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
9 Becoming Like What We Worship
The Book of Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
10 The Reversal from Reflecting the Image of Idols
to Reflecting God’s Image
11 Conclusion
So What Difference Does It Make? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Bibliography
Author Index
Index of Ancient Sources
Scripture Index

G. K. Beale is Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, Illinois. His books include ‘The Book of Revelation’ (NIGTC), ‘1 and 2 Thessalonians’ (IVPNTC), and ‘The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God’ (NSBT Apollos), and with D.A. Carson is editor of the ‘Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament’. He is also a contributor to the ‘New Dictionary of Biblical Theology’ (IVP)