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...

♦ This unit consists of a summons to the prophet to go up into the sky (v. 1), followed by a segment focused on the celestial throne of God. 4:1 According to the Israelite tradition of the period, when God created Adam, God “created for him an open heaven, so that he might look upon the angels singing the triumphal song. And the light which is never darkened was perpetually in paradise” (2 Enoch 31:2–3; OTP). Subsequently, of course, this opening was closed. Yet access was available,

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