PATMOS, Greece -- When John wrote the final book of the New Testament, he bestowed a gift on the Greek tourism board, mentioning, early on, that he'd received his apocalyptic vision while "on the ...

There are 774,746 words in the King James Version of the Bible, 593,493 in the Old Testament, and 181,253 in the New Testament. These words are separated into 31,103 verses organized into 1,189 ...

PROFESSOR ELAINE PAGELS (reading from the Book of Revelation): “And another sign appeared in heaven; a great red dragon with ten horns and seven diadems on his head. His tail swept down a third of the ...

Hallucinogenic and ominous, the Book of Revelation has inflamed the Western imagination for over 1,500 years, inspiring everything from cheesy horror movies to panics over bar codes (the Number of the ...

How many times have you heard someone say, “I don’t know much about the book of Revelation, but I read the Left Behind books, and at least I understand the basics”? Though the Left Behind tsunami has ...

The Bible, as all good Christians know, boasts “a Hollywood ending,” said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. The Book of Revelation, written in the late 1st century by a Jewish mystic who had accepted ...

One day, sometime around A.D. 90, a man named John climbed the spiny ridge that runs across the small Aegean island of Patmos. There, as legend has it, he found a cave, crawled inside and had a vision ...