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Title: The Letters to Seven Churches: Updated Edition by Mark W. Wilson, William Mitchell Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia and th Ramsay ISBN: 1-56563-059-9 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Summary: History Behind Revelation
Comment: At the beginning of the Book of Revelation are "letters" to churches in seven cities of Asia Minor, praising, rebuking and admonishing their congregations and disclosing how Christ views their works.
To the modern reader, these prefatory letters may seem as riddling as the symbol-filled apocalyptic visions that make up the bulk of the book. But the "seven churches" existed in real locales, and Sir William Ramsay shows how the letters addressed to them acutely reflect local circumstances.
Ramsay (1851-1939) was a prominent archeologist specializing in Greek and Roman Asia Minor. He was also a prolific writer on early Church history. "The Letters to the Seven Churches" is a superb synthesis of these areas of expertise. Its first part surveys what can be known of the places, peoples and institutions of late First Century Asia Minor. Ramsay then proceeds to analyze each of the letters, first recounting pertinent aspects of the city's history and geography, then relating those to the biblical text. The connections are always interesting and often illuminating.
Inevitably, speculative elements creep in. Ramsay infers much more about the "Nicolaitans", whom the letters denounce in unrestrained terms, than the evidence seems to warrant, and his statements about the "Flavian persecution", whose very existence is doubted by many scholars, should be read with caution.
Ramsay took the traditionalist side in the scholarly debates concerning the early Church, but this work is not in a controversial vein. Modernists need not fear that perusing it will undermine their faith, and everyone who is interested in what Christianity looked like in its earliest days will learn much from its pages.
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Title: The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting by Colin J. Hemer ISBN: 0802847145 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: St. Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen by William M. Ramsay, Mark Wilson, F. F. Bruce ISBN: 0825436397 Publisher: Kregel Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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Title: Letters to the Seven Churches by William Barclay ISBN: 0664223869 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text (New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.).) by Gregory K. Beale ISBN: 080282174X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The Theology of the Book of Revelation by Richard Bauckham, James D. G. Dunn ISBN: 0521356911 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 04 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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