The best explanation I have heard in my 70 years on Revelations

Like Dr. Ehrman, I was once an evangelical. So, his references to evangelical eschatology were precisely in line with what I was taught during my teens and early twenties. After university I attended a conservative, evangelical theological seminary for two years. It was during my seminary studies that the logic behind that theological system began to unravel for me. To my family’s horror, I left evangelical Christianity altogether but not my fervent belief in God as presented by Jesus. I chose to became Episcopalian and lean toward Christian Mysticism. I had always been troubled by Revelations and its bazaar imagery and so, for forty years, I have dealt with The Book of Revelations by ignoring it.

This book makes brilliant sense to me. I highly recommend Dr. Ehrman’s scholarly presentation of this subject. I find it refreshing, invigorating and am so glad to have read it.

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An insightful analysis of Revelation

I was reared as an evangelical, but am now attend a mainline church. My switch came from reading the Bible frequently and thoroughly. One thing that doing so did was to make me realize that the end times teachings I grew up with were not consistent with what I was reading. In this book, Dr. Ehrman has done the best job of exposing those problems and the inconsistencies of the Jesus of Revelation with the Jesus of the Gospels that I have ever read. Kudos!

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80% is the same as his other books

At this point I’ve read over half a dozen books by the author and have come to the realization that he’s ACTUALLY only written 2-3 books and keeps recycling the material, with a few extra tidbits thrown in, to create all others. The only thing new in this book to me, having read his others, is the extra commentary and history of how Evangelicals view Revelation, which I could do without.

Tip-read ONE Bart book on the overall topic you want and skip the other specific books. You’ll have all the important information and will save time and money.

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Excellent Dive into the Most Misunderstood Part of the Bible

Many of his earlier books touched lightly upon this topic, but in this book he does a deep dive into the subject. Excellent job. Good information to have when two well dressed people knock on your door to try and talk about it!!

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Extremely thoughtful and unbiased

Wonderful analysis written in accessible language. Unbiased and well researched. I’d recommend to anyone. Might upset literalists but only because it forces one to confront everything they were taught about Revelations—not through preaching or persuasion but by well laid research.

Thought provoking; probably not perfect…

Well researched and interesting thoughts, but probably not a perfect interpretation of revelations. A good read/listen if you’re interested in learning more about different perspectives of revelation.

One of Ehrman’s best.

A rational, unbiased and clear analysis of the last book in the Bible. I didn’t feel that I was being preached to or talked down to. Highly recommended.

Hard to argue with

This book never feels like it has a bias, just analysis. It would be nice if all discussions could be this well researched and reasoned.

Excellent Scholarly Take on a Widely Misunderstood Text

As always, Dr. Ehrman provides an easily readable but high-quality discussion of the critical scholarship of a biblical text. This was an excellent and enlightening discussion of the apocalypse genre and the revelation of John of Patmos. Highly recommend.

What Bart Ehrman really says about the end

This book certainly makes some good points. I don’t believe it is up to the level of previous books by Dr. Ehrman. I always expect an interjection of Dr. Ehrman’s liberalism and he certainly did not fail here. Perhaps the book should be more appropriately titled what Bart Ehrman really says about the end. Beginning the book with chastisement of those who hold apocalyptic views is a bit of a cheap shot to me and, perhaps, set the wrong tone for the book.