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Essays on Revelation: Appropriating Yesterday's Apocalypse in Today's World is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Revelation perennially provokes outlandish futurist predictions proven patently false over time. Such prophecy failures leave the inquiring mind with a strong sense that the book of Revelation is nothing but a hoax, safely ignored and without contemporary relevance. The inevitable practical result, not only for church members, but for their ministers as well, is a canonical book...

First-century Mediterranean people were strong group-oriented persons.15 To them, the integrity of the group—loyalty—was more important than self-reliance.16 Purity is a socially shared map of space and time involving values held in common by members of a group and especially relevant in a strong group.17 An unclean person, then, is a person out of place, collectively deemed a deviant. Deviant labels therefore are a matter of perspective.18 Behavior deemed “out of place,” or “out of order” by a group