Have you ever been involved with a cult

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Samus Aran said:

My professor of Ancient history(just Roman-Greek history really) had a few lessons about the bible, explaining in what context the bible was written in.

You can try Wikipedia, but that's not a good source anyway.

Stickball is actually right.  Revelations has been dated as early as Claudias and as Late as Trajan.  Nero and Domitian are the two most widely believed deates... however Domitian is still the most widely believed.

For one, all of the External evidence points to Domitian.

When it comes from within the text, Nero didn't put Christians to death for not worshipping him... that didn't start until Domitian.  Basically they weren't persecuted for their religious beliefs until then, previously it was other reasons.  The writer of the book was banished because of his beliefs.

Additionaly the persecution was only in Rome, unlike the worldwide persecution needed  in revelations.  Which occured under Domitian.

Your teacher was just replacing his favorite theory over the more widely accepted one.  It's a fairly common thing for teachers to do... and Nero backers aren't that small of a minority.