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Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation: An Exegetical and Historical Argument for a Pre-A.D. 70 Composition is unavailable, but you can change that!

For centuries scholars have argued over when the book of Revelation was written a few years before or a quarter century after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. The most accepted but not the most compelling date is around the time of Domitian (AD 95–96), at the end of the first century when John would have been nearly 100 years old. A more compelling date for the writing is during the reign...

was written nearer A.D. 180.37 Others believe Caius, Presbyter of Rome, wrote it about the year A.D. 200.38 If written by Caius, it should be noted that he may well have been a student of Irenaeus.39 But even if Caius did not compose it, it most certainly was drawn up by a writer from the latter half of the second century, the very era of Irenaeus.40 As Schaff observes, it is “the oldest Latin church document of Rome, and of very great importance for the history of the canon.”41 The witness of
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