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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...

Their questions concerned the form of the message and the way it dealt with the immediate situation of its intended readers. Efforts at social reform and church renewal, along with advances in technology, raised hopes for a better future during this period, even as the Napoleonic wars, the American Civil War, and then World Wars I and II called into question the prospect of genuine progress toward a new age. The older pattern of reading Revelation as an outline
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