| Summary: | Lost in antiquity, rediscovered in 1896, and only recently accessible forstudy, The Secret Revelation to John offers a firsthand look into thediversity of Christianity before the establishment of canon and creed.Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text - anarrative of the creation of the universe and humanity and a guide tojustice and salvation, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John.Freeing the Revelation from the category of 'Gnosticism' to which suchaccounts were relegated, King shows how the Biblical text could beread by early Christians in radical and revisionary ways. By placing theRevelation in its social and intellectual milieu, she revises ourunderstanding of early Christianity and, more generally, religiousthought in the ancient Mediterranean world.
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