I'd like to see Logos get this series up in pre-pub ASAP.
https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/the-bible-for-normal-people-series
Here's an example user review for one of the volumes from Amazon:
"Revelation for Normal People absolutely delivers on its title. In my experience, this is easily the most accessible, easy to follow introduction to a scripture that is notoriously neither accessible nor easy to follow.
"I’m not a Revelation neophyte, having read a shelf full of books about it and several excellent study Bibles, and I would wager I know my way around the text as well as any other interested layperson. But the way Whitaker organizes this book has given me a roadmap to impose on the fever-dream chaos of Revelation, more than any other commentary I’ve seen was able to. She divides the sections of the text into comprehensible movements, and effortlessly pulls apart the tangled web of allusions and references without getting waist-deep in an impenetrable bog of Old Testament citations.
"Whitaker debunks some of the most off-kilter and dangerous interpretations of Revelation that have sprung up in the last hundred years or so, while also offering some keen insights to replace them. 'Revelation is a highly political, but also deeply theological, text,' she writes. 'It offers us a profound way to think about evil as something found in structures and systems, and to ponder what an ethical response to such evil might be.' She clears away the mythmaking and misreadings that have cluttered up the popular imagination of this work, and makes it feel relevant again by (ironically) going back to its original context, and the meaning it would have had to its first listeners.
"This book is a brief and engaging read, while still managing to cover all of the relevant themes and messages of this apocalyptic work. It feels thorough without being exhausting, and deeply researched without reading like a work of research itself. It’s definitely the book I’ll recommend to any future person I encounter who is baffled and perplexed by Revelation, and I look forward to revisiting it again myself in the future."
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