Who Knew? Our Oldest Commentary on the Book of Revelation

October 24, 2021 00:10:10
Who Knew? Our Oldest Commentary on the Book of Revelation
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Who Knew? Our Oldest Commentary on the Book of Revelation

Oct 24 2021 | 00:10:10

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Show Notes

One of the great things about being a research scholar is that if you’re diligent and paying attention, you learn new stuff all the time. For someone with an inquiring mind, it’s like striking gold with some fair regularity. And if you dig deep enough, you find things that very few people know about – often even scholars within your own field. I first read the book of Revelation when I was seventeen; I had a college course on it two years later; and have studied it ever since. But it was not until a couple of years ago that I came to know something about the very oldest commentary we have on the book. Read by Petra Ortiz

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