Fallen Is Babylon The Revelation to John |
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| Author:
| Murphy, Frederick J. |
| Series title: | NT in Context Commentaries Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56338-152-2 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1998 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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| Imprint: | T&T Clark |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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Many misinterpretations of Revelation result from lack of appreciation of its original contexts: historical, social, literary, theological. To address this problem and to enable today's readers to understand how the book would have been read by early Christians, this commentary makes available the best in recent and classic biblical scholarship on Revelation and its setting. The result is that the reader will see Revelation in its original contexts and thereby fully comprehend it as...
More DescriptionMany misinterpretations of Revelation result from lack of appreciation of its original contexts: historical, social, literary, theological. To address this problem and to enable today's readers to understand how the book would have been read by early Christians, this commentary makes available the best in recent and classic biblical scholarship on Revelation and its setting. The result is that the reader will see Revelation in its original contexts and thereby fully comprehend it as one possible Christian response to specific conditions in the eastern Roman Empire in the first century.>