Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation Audiobook (Free)

Elaine Pagels explores the astonishing history of the most controversial reserve from the Bible.

In the waning days of the Roman Empire, militant Jews in Jerusalem had waged an

all-out war against Rome’s occupation of Judea, and their defeat resulted in the desecration

of the fantastic Temple in Jerusalem. In the aftermath of that battle, John of Patmos, a Jewish

prophet and follower of Jesus, wrote the Publication of Revelation, prophesying God’s view

around the pagan empire that devastated and dominated his people. Soon after, Christians fearing

arrest and execution championed John’s prophecies as offering hope for deliverance from

bad. Others seized on the Reserve of Revelation as a tool against heretics and infidels

of all kinds.

Even after John’s prophecies seemed disproven-instead of being destroyed, Rome

became a Christian empire-those who loved John’s visions refused to discard them and

instead reinterpreted them-as Christians have done for two thousand years. Brilliantly

weaving scholarship having a deep knowledge of the individual must which religion talks,

Pagels has written what could be the masterwork in her unique career.