Few images in religious literature are as striking or enduring as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Emerging from the ...

In The Bible’s Book of Revelation, the Apostle John has a vision in Chapter 6 in which The Lamb (Jesus) opens seven seals on a scroll, each of which usher in a judgement or apocalyptic event.

The meaning of “apocalypse” has thus expanded in recent decades from an exclusively religious idea to include other, more human-driven apocalyptic scenarios, such as a “nuclear apocalypse ...

The Book of Revelation, previously called the Apocalypse, is the Bible’s most ekphrastic text. With vivid allegorical imagery, its author, John of Patmos, sought to cajole readers into choosing ...