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This modern classic by Colin Hemer explores the seven letters in the book of Revelation against the historical background of the churches to which they were addressed. Based on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological sources and informed by Hemer’s firsthand knowledge of the biblical sites, this superb study presents in the clearest way possible a picture of the New Testament world in the...

of the garden may be compared with the squareness of a temenos mentioned in an inscription of Smyrna (SIG3 996.30; of c. 1st century AD), and that inscription uses an unusual collocation of words which coincides remarkably with the passage in Rev. 21:16–18 describing the dimensions of the New Jerusalem.45 It would be rash to dogmatize about the associations which might have been present to John’s mind, but many things throughout the Revelation may be illuminated by the assumption that local conditions
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