Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation   Elaine Pagels
History and some analysis of the influential biblical text. Pagels places it in the context of its times, and the Jewish prophetic tradition, which go a long way toward eliminating much of the “mystery” of its language and symbols. Also, compares it to contemporary prophetic books discovered at Nag Hammadi. Well done, but only marginally interesting because I have happily left all that B.S. behind. Halleluiah.