Recommended Books and Online Resources for the Study of Revelation

These are books I recommend for Bible study, meditation, and preaching preparation related to the book of Revelation.

• Revelation and the End of All Things by Craig Koester (Eerdmans, 2001): Also check out Koester's free, downloadable Bible study guide from Luther Seminary
• Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation by Michael J. Gorman (2010)
• Revelation: Vision of a Just World from Proclamation Commentaries. by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (Fortress Press, 1991)
• Revelation by Mitchell Reddish (Smyth & Hewlys, 2001)
  
• Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination by Eugene Peterson (HarperCollins, 1988)
• Joy in our Weakness-A Gift of Hope from the Book of Revelation by Marva Dawn (Concordia, 1994)
• Rapture Exposed, The: the Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation by Barbara Rossing (Westview, 2005)    [Cf. my review HERE]
• Revelation (N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides) by N.T. Wright (2012)
• The Theology of the Book of Revelation by Richard J. Bauckham (Cambridge, 1993)
• Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple by Scot McKnight

        (Links are my Amazon Associate ones)

Other Revelation Resources

• For my 6-part Bible study: Revelation: It's About Time
• Revelation: A free, online Bible study from Yale Divinity School with Harold Attridge and David Bartlett
• PBS Frontline: Apocalypse!
• A Lutheran perspective on the Left Behind series books and movies

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