Articles on biblical books--Job, Paul, Mark, John--are accompanied by essays upon Messianism and apocalyptic ethics, plus studies on five first-century Jewish apocalypses, an early champion of Islam, two medieval Christian seers, and finally the Book of Revelation itself.

Until his retirement in 1996, John Ashton, M.A., D. Litt., was Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology, Oxford
University, having previously taught at the Universities of London, St Andrews, and Edinburgh. He has written extensively on the Gospel of
John, notably the highly acclaimed Understanding the Fourth Gospel and the recently published The Gospel of John and Christian Origins. His Wilde lectures on St Paul appeared as The Religion of Paul the Apostle.