Archive for the ‘Danish’ Category
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Here is an overview of the Danish writings on Revelation; I have described most of them in separate entries.
Theses and related works
Dr.theol. Georg S. Adamsen (b. 1963) seems to be the first Danish exegete who wrote a doctoral thesis on Revelation. His thesis (in English) provides the first full-scale analysis ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Loft, Johannes. Synerne fra Patmos: En gennemgang af Johannes Aabenbaring. Aarhus: De Unges Forlag, 1919. 112 pp.
Immediately after the war, Johannes Loft, theologian, translator, author and lecturer (at a teacher-training college?) published The Patmos Visions (Synerne fra Patmos) at the publishing company of the Danish YMCA and YWCA (1919). The ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Thestrup Pedersen, Ebbe. Johannes' Åbenbaring: Kommenteret og fortolket [The Book of Revelation: Commentary and Interpretation]. Valby: Forlaget Aros, 1999. 183 pp.
Professor Ebbe Thestrup Pedersen (1914-1998) was a Danish theologian and professor of education. This volume was published posthumously. Pedersen asserts that serious readers of Revelation must learn from the scholarly, ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Davidsen, Andreas. Johannes’ Åbenbaring: Kommentar med tillæg [Revelation: a Commentary with appendices]. København: Gyldendal, 1988. 170 pp.
The Danish theologian, pastor and former lecturer at a college of education, Andreas Davidsen (b. 1928) has published an entry level commentary. In his introduction (pp. 11-41), Davidsen describes "apocalyptic" and discusses the common ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Krohn, Aage. Det femte Evangelium: Johannes’ Aabenbaring udlagt for vor Tid [The Fifth Gospel. The Book of Revelation Interpreted for Our Time]. København: Schønbergske Forlag, 1942. 222 pp.
This Danish commentary was one of several written in times of war (see more on Torm, Johannes' Åbenbaring). Drawing on scholarly research, Krohn ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Torm, Frederik. Johannes' Aabenbaring: En populær fortolkning [The Book of Revelation: A Popular Commentary]. København: G. E. C. Gads Forlag, 1941. 162 pp.
Norwegian translation (Johannes' åpenbaring: En populær fortolkning) published by Lutherstiftelsens forlag, Oslo, 1942. 160 pp.
English
Frederik Torm (1870-1953), professor of New Testament at the University of Copenhagen (1909-1940), was ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Madsen, Peder. Johannes’ Aabenbaring: Indledet og fortolket [The Book of Revelation: Introduction and Commentary]. 1st ed. København: G. E. C. Gad, 1887. 2nd ed. 1896.
Both editions were published in two parts, the two first volumes in 1885 and 1894. The libraries disagree as to the number of pages. ...
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