The Book of Revelation was, according to Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels, first intended as anti-Roman propaganda to rally Jewish resistance. It almost wasn’t added to the New Testament because it conflicted with the Pauline epistles. Pagels explains in her book, Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation, the “strangest book in the Bible—and the most controversial.” Come in and see what else we have, and remember our “Eggtraordinary” Sale which ends April 4.
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