Below is an excerpt from the Introduction to my booklet “The Seven Letters of Revelation – A Radical Interpretation”. It represents the first part of the introduction to the booklet. When Paul began the process of finalizing his gospels sometime in the early AD 90s, he had read (or had with him) the following materials: The Torah which included Isaiah and its prophesies; which also generated the Moses and Joshua typologies that he would use to describe Jesus. From Philo of Alexandria, he had the conceptual and doctrinal framework upon which he would build the story of the life of Jesus as well as the document “Flaccus” about the punishment and death of a Roman official named Flaccus. He also had the works of Josephus about the Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities from which he pulled the historical background for the early life of Jesus. From these documents, he took events in Herod’s life, John the Baptist and Pilate among others. He might also have had a document called “The Te...