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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Farrer, Austin: The Revelation of St. John the Divine: Commentary on the English Text. Oxford: Clarendon, 1964. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2005. 242 pp.Farrer interprets John as a rabbinic preacher seeking "new inspiration by drawing old texts into fresh combinations" (p. 30) and thinks that OT was ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Zahn, Theodor. Die Offenbarung des Johannes ausgelegt. Leipzig: Deichert, 1924-1926; reprint, Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus Verlag, 1986. vi + 633 pp.This work deserves a detailed presentation. It is an erudite commentary that presents material and insights hardly found elsewhere. Zahn provides a detailed overview of the history of interpretation.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Kretschmar, Georg: Die Offenbarung des Johannes: Die Geschichte ihrer Auslegung im 1. Jahrtausend. Calwer Theologische Monographien, B9. Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1985. 164 pp.Kretschmar's book is not only a presentation of its history of interpretation throughout the first millennium. It also presents the author's view on introductory matters and its overall ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
See Kretschmar, Die Offenbarung des Johannes.(This entry is a dummy that allows me to use more categories than Blogger allows).
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Witherington, Ben, III. Revelation. New Cambridge Bible commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xviii + 306.Witherington brings the socio-rhetorical approach, pioneered by Vernon K. Robbins, to Revelation. This volume opens the NCBC series which is edited by Witherington himself.It is crucial to Witherington's approach that the socio-historical situation is determined ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Joachim of Fiore. Expositio in Apocalypsim. Frankfurt am Main: Minerva, 1964. 224 pp.Joachim's Expositio in Apocalypsim: Commentary on the Apocalypse is his main work on Revelation. According to Joachim's works: chronology, editions, and manuscripts, the commentary was written, re-written and revised between 1183-1184 and 1200.In the same ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
From International Center for Joachimist Studies"Joachim composed this "general introduction", to the apocalypse between 1188 and 1192. In the Praephatio super Apocalypsim the Joachimist theory of Trinitarian 'status' is explained. The ancient patristic doctrine of the six Ages of the world is replaced by the later doctrine of the seven ...
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