<B>A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (<I>The New York Times Book Review</I>) bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong—and why that matters.</B><BR><BR>You’ll find nearly everything the Bible says about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and <I>very </I>firm ideas about the horrors that await us all. But no matter what you think Revelation reveals—whether you read it as a literal description of what will soon come to pass, interpret it as a metaphorical expression of hope for those suffering now, or only recognize its highlights from pop culture—you’re almost certainly wrong.<BR><BR>In <I>Armageddon</I>, acclaimed New Testament authority Bart D. Ehrman delves into the most misunderstood—and possibly most dangerous—book of the Bible, on a “vigilantly pers