Reading Revelation: A Literary and Theological Commentary - Paperbackby Jamie Davies (Author) Revelation is perhaps the most misunderstood book of the New Testament. The challenge of reading Revelation well lies largely in appreciating its literary form as an 'apocalypse, ' a genre of writing full of bewildering imagery and complex structural features. The book's visions and images are not a code to be deciphered but a means of transforming the Christian theological imagination, disclosing in many layered ways the