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Interpreting Revelation and Other Apocalyptic Literature: An Exegetical Handbook is unavailable, but you can change that!

With historic events seeming to burgeon with signs of the last days, the study of apocalyptic literature--that which is concerned with the end of history as we know it and the coming kingdom of God--has become increasingly relevant. C. Marvin Pate provides a guide to the distinctive content, form, and function of apocalyptic books for those who are interested in exegesis of biblical apocalyptic...

Jewish Christians from the synagogue alluded to in the Fourth Gospel continues in Revelation (especially chapters 2–3). The added feature of the Apocalypse is that now those expelled Christians face persecution from the Roman emperor cult. Indeed, by the time John the apostle wrote Revelation (ca. A.D. 95), his churches in Asia Minor faced three opponents: (1) Jewish leadership in Asia Minor persisted in expelling Jewish Christians from the synagogues. How they did so is spelled out in Revelation
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