I’ve been working on a book about Revelation that offers a different perspective then the “Revelation as End-of-the-World” interpretation.
This book, Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation, published by Barclay Press, is coming out very soon and I wanted to give you a heads up to start watching out for it. It is in e-book form and will be available as an e-pub through Barclay Press, on Amazon, and, as I understand it, through the Our Bible App.
The general premise of the book is that Revelation, drawing on a number of other scholars, doesn’t have anything to do with predicting the end of the world, but rather is about how small, marginalized faith communities resisted and survived empire. The book lays out four practices that the author of Revelation points out are necessary for doing this.
You can read more about the book over on this guest column I wrote for Guilford College Gazette.
Stay tuned, I’ll announce when the book is officially out.