harmful. Another teenager read Revelation from beginning to end at school one day. He writes about the experience: The funny thing is I am quite sure I didn’t understand what on earth it was all about, but I can still remember the explosive power and beauty of it, the sense that the New Testament I held in my hands had a thunderstorm hidden inside it that nobody had warned me about. Some years later, that young man became an Anglican bishop and the world’s most prominent contemporary biblical scholar: N. T. (Tom) Wright.10
