Archive for the ‘Resource types’ Category

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies

Monday, June 30th, 2008

For many years Professor Torrey Seland, PhiloBlogger, has maintained a very valuable site: Resource Pages for Biblical Studies (RPBS). His section on Revelation includes several valuable resources. Page Two of Resource Pages for Biblical Studies Articles etc related to the Book of Revelation RPBS is worth a visit! If you want to be ...

ESV Study Bible and Revelation

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Translations are very important tools. Good translations are helpful. Bad ones not so. Study Bibles may be very helpful. Or they may be quite the opposite. ESV is, as far as I know, a good translation. An ESV Study Bible is in preparation. It will very likely be used by very ...

Hoffman’s maps of Patmos and the seven cities

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

As Mark Hoffman wrote in his comment, there are good uncopyrighted maps of Patmos and the seven churches available. BibleMapper / Bible Mapper Maps This is a map that displays the location of Patmos and the seven churches mentioned in Revelation 2-3.The zip file contains 4 JPGs in color and in B/W ...

Domitian - the Beast?

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Take a look at the blog One coin at a time. Brett Telford is the owner of a fine collection of coins with The Twelve Caesars. The entry "DOMITIAN!!!!!" displays two very fine photographs of a coin with Domitian. Ethelbert Stauffer was a German Protestant theologian who held that gematria, the numerology ...

Otto A. Piper’s 1959 review of four Revelation commentaries

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Theology Today - Vol 16, No. 1 - April 1959 - BOOK REVIEW - The Book of Revelation & The Revelation of Jesus Christ & The Last Book of the Bible & Interpreting Revelation The Book of Revelation By Thomas S. Kepler 232 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1957. ...

DeSilva, Strategic Arousal - currently freely available

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

David A. DeSilva. "The Strategic Arousal of Emotions in the Apocalypse of John: A Rhetorical-Critical Investigation of the Oracles to the Seven Churches." New Testament Studies 54 (2008): 90-114. Currently freely available online here in a pdf version. Here is the abstract: Heuristic use of classical rhetorical theorists' discussion of appeals to ...

Nice list of Biblical studies journals at deinde.org

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

See A list of biblical studies journals at deinde.org.