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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...

Some interpreters identify the Nicolaitans as Judaizers. They connect the Nicolaitans at Pergamum, “where Satan lives” (Rev 2:13), with the “synagogue of Satan” at Smyrna and Philadelphia (2:9; 3:9). Since Revelation charges that members of those synagogues are not actually Jews, some suggest that the Nicolaitans are Gentiles who claim aspects of the Jewish tradition while advocating openness to Greco-Roman religious practices (Prigent, “L’Hérésie,” 8–10; Gaston, “Judaism,” 42–43). This proposal
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