PROFESSOR ELAINE PAGELS (reading from the Book of Revelation): “And another sign appeared in heaven; a great red dragon with ten horns and seven diadems on his head. His tail swept down a third of the ...

The Church does not have an official stance on who the author is. The author of the book of Revelation calls himself John (Rev. 1:1; 1:4). The only other clue to the author’s identity is that he ...

Most interpretations of revelation in contemporary churches are concerned with the chronology of the book of Revelation. While this has benefits it is not the best approach. First because that was not ...

The book is written in the striking symbolic imagery of the apocalyptic genre, which we have already seen, for example, in the Book of Daniel. There is no reason to question the authorship: It was ...

I am working on a new commentary on the book of Revelation and I thought it might be relevant to post the following. What I hope to accomplish in this commentary is to provide the average reader of ...

Most scholars today think that the book of Revelation was written around the year A.D. 95, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Domitian. Historically, though, many thought it was written earlier ...

From Chapter One: "John's Revelation: Challenging the Evil Empire, Rome" The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible — and the most controversial. How did this book speak to people when ...

(RNS) — What the LDS curriculum attempts to do with Revelation reflects our own me-centered, therapeutic era: The Bible’s most controversial book becomes a road map for each person’s very own ...

Hundreds of people lined up outside San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club recently, braving protesters in demon masks blasting death metal, all to hear billionaire Peter Thiel deliver a lecture about the ...