Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Biblia.com)

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The Social-Science Commentary series presents a pioneering alternative commentary genre that offers a contextual approach to the study of the New Testament, thoroughly grounded in the original audience’s first-century cultural setting. The author of Revelation presents himself as John, the astral seer, who professes faith in the resurrected Jesus and who belonged to the house of Israel. John...

to God and participating in celestial songs of praise to God (4:10; 5:11, 14; 7:11; 11:16; 19:4). They are privy to God’s cosmic plan and can impart those secrets to prophets (5:5; 7:13). They likewise surround the cosmic Lamb (5:6) and give their homage to the Lamb and mediate the homage of other beings (5:8). The fact that the elders occupy God’s inner circle, close to the center of power, likewise indicates their decanlike celestial location. While the explanation of the nature and quality of

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