PBRoadmap myth or history An accessible review of The Book of Revelation for todays audience.BPPIConversations with Scripture RevelationI is the first book in the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholar Study Series. Written in accessible language and sensitive to those who have little or no experience in reading the bible each book in the series focuses on exploring the historical and critical background as well as how the biblical texts written centuries ago can still speak to readers today. PPFrederick W. Schmidt also the series editor explores the approaches that have dominated the interpretation of Johns Apocalypse and offers the reader an accessible means of understanding and evaluating them. With this grounding in hand Schmidt explores how Revelation can shape our understanding of God and nurture our spiritual lives in unexpected ways. Leaving behind leftbehind theology Schmidt offers instead an approach that allows this obscure almost opaque text to speak to us anew about God faith hope and justice.P