Is the Book of Revelation a Revised Version of a Non-Christian Apocalypse? Guest Post by James Tabor

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Is the Book of Revelation a Revised Version of a Non-Christian Apocalypse? Guest Post by James Tabor
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Is the Book of Revelation a Revised Version of a Non-Christian Apocalypse? Guest Post by James Tabor

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Here now is the second guest post by my friend and cross-state colleague, New Testament scholar James Tabor. Other scholars have suggested Revelation started out as a Jewish text that was later “Christianized” by an editor who produced the version we have today. Here James embraces that view and mounts an argument for it. See what you think! Read by Petra Ortiz

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