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The secret book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, Gilles Quispel

eng

Includes bibliography and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The secret book of Revelation

bibliography

Gilles Quispel

the last book of the Bible

"The Apocalypse, the last book of the New Testament, has been an unending source of inspiration, speculation, and divination throughout the Christian era right up to the present day. The Apocalypse has often been referred to as ‘The Secret Book of Revelation,’ for throughout the ages this fascinating and enigmatic text has seemed rarely to deliver up its secrets. While its poetry and imagery have inspired artists and writers, the true meaning has continued to puzzle laymen and to divide scholars and churchmen. Historical discoveries in recent times have opened up new approaches to the Apocalypse. Shaping the material now available, a distinguished scholar evokes a dramatic picture of the background against which the Apocalypse emerged. With a penetrating analysis of the historical events, Professor Quispel captures the vehement response of the early Christians to the tyranny and persecutions of Rome in the late first century A.D., and he makes palpable the comfort and meaning found in the expectation of the Millennium. With keen psychological insight he illuminates the rich symbolism in John’s vision, which reveals the contents of God’s book of history, locked with seven seals, and he shows how, in his vision of the New Jerusalem, the author of Revelation achieved a remarable degree of self-realization and psychological healing."--, From the dust-jacket front flap

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