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Pub Date: September
The Book of Revelation has been identified as the revealed word of God, the masterwork of a gifted, if also calculating, human author, and the ravings of a deluded religious crank. What cannot be questioned is that the Book of Revelation has remained relevant to its readers and has been honed into a weapon of multiple uses in the ongoing culture wars between states, religions, and citizenry.
In this provocative book, bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch delivers a far-ranging, entertaining, and eye-opening history of the surprising little book that was almost cut from the New Testament, yet it plays a central role in foreign policy decisions at the highest levels of government today. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the Black Death, the Inquisition to the Protestant Reformation, the New World to the Great Awakening, this chronicle of the use and abuse of the Book of Revelation captures the unfolding of history and the hopes, fears, dreams, and nightmares of all humanity.
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