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Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading Revelation in Context brings together short, accessible essays by a team of over 20 top scholars that compare and contrast the visions and apocalyptic imagery of the book of Revelation with various texts from Second Temple Jewish literature. Going beyond an introduction that merely surveys historical events and theological themes, Reading Revelation in Context examines individual...

There are only a few possible instances in biblical and early Jewish literature where one reads about the fall of the Satan figure. Scholars have proposed that Ezekiel 28:11–19 and Isaiah 14:3–20 describe the fall of Satan due to his pride, but the exegetical evidence suggests on both occasions the authors are talking about a human king. A third text that is thought to describe the fall
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