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More than any other New Testament writing, the Book of Revelation demands commentary. Its often-bewildering text is easily open to less-than-scholarly interpretation. Wilfrid Harrington brings his scholarship to the Book of Revelation and conveys its Christian message. He puts the work in its historical and social setting—a first-century CE province of the Roman Empire—and explores its social...

The word apokalypsis, “revelation,” the first word of the Book of Revelation, came in time to designate a type of Jewish literature which appeared about 200 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. Some scholars characterize and stress the literary form of these writings as the disclosure of heavenly mysteries. Others look to their content and particularly to their eschatology. It would seem, in fact, that both approaches may and should be sustained. Specifically, apocalypse has
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