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In this landmark commentary, Craig R. Koester offers a comprehensive look at a powerful and controversial early Christian text, the book of Revelation. The author provides richly textured descriptions of the book’s setting and language, making extensive use of Greek and Latin inscriptions, classical texts, and ancient Jewish writings, including the Dead Sea Scrolls. Rather than viewing Revelation...

1–2; Ep. 58.1). Like Hippolytus he also thought the millennium was the state of blessedness after death, not a coming age of earthly bliss (C. Hill, Regnum, 192–201). The Christological and eschatological aspects of Revelation receive special attention in the oldest extant commentary on the book, written by Victorinus of Pettau (d. 304). In his view, the vision of the Lamb breaking the seals on God’s scroll shows that Christ reveals the meaning of Scripture through his death and resurrection (In
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