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Revelation: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse of John, encourages Christians to be faithful to their Lord, Jesus Christ, through a rich mixture of symbolism and images. Perhaps the most puzzling book in all Scripture, Revelation introduces bowls and scrolls, saints and angels, horsemen and beasts, the bride and the lamb, in a wondrous end-times drama. The scene shifts from cataclysmic...

grafted onto the beginning and four Christian verses (22:16–17a, 20–21) have been grafted onto the end. Neither shows the NT Christ. Revelation is therefore unique. Who, then, was the author of this apocalypse? The writer gives his name as John in four places: Rev 1:1, 4, 9, 22:8. Nowhere does he claim to be one of the twelve apostles. The fact that he refers to himself as “John” in contrast to the description “the disciple whom Jesus loved” in John 19:26 arouses doubt
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