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Joseph Trafton was concerned that much of the popular understanding of Revelation was based on traditions of interpretation and not on the book itself. Having done his masters thesis on Revelation, Trafton came to see how crucial it was to view the book in its historical and conceptual contexts. He reveals the Jewish thought-world that underlies the book and shows how the various sections of the...

provincial center for the emperor cult and boasted a magnificent temple erected to the Flavian emperors (Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian). Paul visited Ephesus briefly near the end of his second missionary journey (Acts 18:19–21) and made it his primary base of teaching on his third missionary journey (Acts 19:1–20:1; cf. Acts 20:17–38). Jesus identifies himself as the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands (2:1; cf. 1:12, 16). This self-designation,
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