About Gilles Quispel: Gilles Quispel was a Dutch theologian, and historian of Christianity and Gnosticism. He was professor of early Christian history at Utrecht University.
During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of boiling oil and subsequently banished to the island of Patmos in the Aegean sea. It was there he wrote his Apocalypse. It wa...
