The new Doubleday Bible Commentary series lets people of all denominations experience the spiritual nourishment found in the Bible. In these practical commentaries, carefully chosen experts help make Scripture come alive for modern readers, showing them how them how the Bible's ancient stories and teachings can be used for inspiration or as wonderful tools for understanding the human condition.

Revelation was John's message of hope to Christians fighting persecution in the first century A.D. This original theme of encouragement, lost after centuries of misinterpreting Revelation as a foreboding book of the apocalypse, has been rescued in Marcus Maxwell's commentary -- a helpful guide to modern readers searching for a source of spiritual regeneration.