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The Book of Revelation and the End of the World: Are the Signs Now Being Fulfilled?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Book of Revelation Is a Genre of Literature

When you read a piece of writing today, you really pay attention to what kind of thing it is. So if modern people misuse it to predict the end of the world, what was its intended function in its own time and place? Why was it written? Yeah. One problem with the book of Revelation is that when people read it, they don't realize it's one of the genre of literature. There were books like this being written in Jewish circles and then in Christian circles.

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