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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...

The church at Ephesus has forsaken its first love (2:4); the church at Sardis, despite its glowing reputation, is dead (3:1); the church at Laodicea is lukewarm and arrogant (3:15–17). The extent to which these problems are bound up with the preceding considerations is unknown and, in a sense, moot: the churches cannot get themselves off the hook by blaming others for their shortcomings. An overall assessment of the situation of the seven churches in John’s day is not a pretty sight. Pressures to
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