Patmos is part of the Dodecanese Islands on the Eastern side of the Aegean Sea, between Greece and Turkey. One 5th-century inscription called Patmos "the Jerusalem of the Aegean." The total population of the island is around 2,500 today.

For information about Patmos, see the following web sites:

• A web page regarding Patmos on a WWW server running on ermis.cc.duth.gr, a host in the city of Xanthi at the region of Thrace in Greece. The server is maintained by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Democritus University of Thrace.

• Photographs of the Monastery of St. John on Patmos, available on the above server.

• Information on Patmos, with photographs, compiled by "Dilos Holiday World," a tourist agency that sells tours to Patmos.

• 12net is an internet provider on Patmos with extensive information for tourists regarding the towns on Patmos, the hotels, useful telephone numbers, cruise lines, car rentals, etc.

• Information about Patmos, the History of Patmos, the Monastery of St. John, and Patmos (or Chora, the capital of the island) by the Tourist Guide of Greece. Also provided is information on other places to visit on Patmos. Plus Network Services S.A., a company located in Rhodes, Greece, provide Greek enterprises the opportunity to maintain a presentation of their activities. Caution: This site contains plenty of faulty English grammar.

• Elysian Holidays Ltd, 16a, High Street, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6AP, UK, also has a web page on Patmos, including information about holiday rental properties on Patmos.

• Travelpoint, a full-service travel service located on Patmos itself.

The Eastern Orthodox Church (which owns the Monastery of St. John on Patmos) also has a higher appreciation for its own historical traditions than for what can be demonstrated through historical-critical method. If one does not mind hanging a little loose with the facts, one should not have to worry about the historicity of the various claims encountered. The Monastery does have a nice collection of ancient manuscripts dating to the Middle Ages.

For information about why the author of the Apocalypse refers to Christ primarily as "Lamb," see the abstract to my doctoral dissertation on "The Origins and Rhetorical Force of the Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John," submitted to Princeton Theological Seminary and successfully defended February 13, 1998.

For other resources for the study of the Book of Revelation, see Resources for the Study of the Book of Revelation, a site owned and maintained by Georg C. Adamsen, a doctoral candidate at the Lutheran School of Theology at Aarhus, Denmark.