Reddit reviews Revelation and the End of All Things

Most of it came from classes and lectures. I don't have the class book list and sources anymore. I do hope you really, really like reading!

Forged writingss

Misquoting Jesus A well known book.

Introduction to the new testiment

The new testament: a historical intoduction

Revelation and the End of All Things Also a somewhat popular book

You can also do some Wikipedia reading on Gnosticism and other early Christen sects to get an idea of just how many groups their were and how differing their beliefs could be. Also look for things on the Q, M and L source.

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You can likely find a number of online pod-casts (or whatever you call them) and lectures on these things.

I am not a historian so my access to books and memorized sources is very limited, I am a student and have been accused of reading serial boxes at least once when I accidentally quoted the wrong book name, It was too much fun to make the correction as no one had ever said that too me before and I felt special, like I had hit an academic milestone.

Also, Don't feel bad about asking for sources.

You're looking for a good critical commentary. That should survey the current state of the field and consider specific and general approaches.

Yale's Anchor commentaries has had a new Revelation a few years ago, which is good, perhaps a bit heavyweight if you're buying for curiosity, but if you can get it from a library, the introduction (which is about a third of the book) is readable and comprehensive.

The author of that book (Craig Koester) also has a smaller book on revelation for a more general reader. Though I haven't read it to vouch for it, personally, apparently it is consistent with his academic work.

>Why do you think Apollo was the patron god of Rome?
>From what I've read, Jupiter (Zeus) was the patron god of Rome.

The Julio-Claudian dynasty claimed it's legitimacy via their Apollo (at least according to the podcast The History of Rome. The idea of divine kingship was new to Rome (but old in the Crescent Valley) and very much a part of the perceived legitimacy of the new Emperor system (which replaced a Republic system). And though you are correct in the 3000 year history of Rome there has been numerous different patron deities including Jupiter, Apollo, Sol Invictus and eventually Jesus Christ. But at the writing of Revelation the emperial cult was Apollonian (also see Rev 9:11 where Abaddon (Hebrew) is Appollyon (Greek).

>In Rev 1, he writes to churches in 'Asia' (which were of course within the Roman empire).

The subject of Revelation pretty obviously appeals to more than the seven churches in Asia!

Also for future reading I was influenced by Revelation and the End of All Things and Revelation: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching. Revelation is the only book I have gone full scholarly research.

An excellent book to read regarding the depiction of the end times in the Bible is Revelation and the End of All Things ” by Kraig Koester.
While it’s primary focus is on the book of Revelation it also looks at the eschatological passages in other books such as Daniel.