Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)

by Robyn Whitaker

Among the reasons Revelation is so confusing and prone to being misinterpreted is that it is highly symbolic and non-linear, and it contains coded references to a bunch of things that probably made some sense in the first century CE, but are not part of our everyday language and worldview today.

Therefore, we need to situate Revelation in its original context—the first century CE—to unpack the way it works. We need to consider the type of literature it is, and then we need to think about how on earth we interpret it for the modern world. That is our goal in the pages ahead. I