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 ...

For nearly 2,000 years, each succeeding generation of Christians has tried to puzzle out whether the Book of Revelation's riddles and symbols has meant its own time was the end of time. Over the past ...

Many archaeologists have spent their lives searching for the Ark of the Covenant, but a prophecy in a banned book of the Bible may reveal when it will be found. The Apocalypse of Baruch, a two-part ...

Writers who parse the New Testament seem to fall into one of two camps: those who consider the Christian Bible to hold divine wisdom, and those who regard its books as primary historical sources, much ...

The civil rights leader believed in a gospel bigger than race or self-interest. America prepared for a bicentennial, and religious identity dominated the presidential campaign.

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 ...