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Marshall, Parables of War: Reading John’s Jewish Apocalypse

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Marshall, John W. Parables of War: Reading John’s Jewish Apocalypse. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 10. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press (for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses), 2001. vii + 258.A revised edition of the author's Ph.D-thesis (see here).Table of Contents:IntroductionAporias: ...

Mayo, "Those Who Call Themselves Jews"

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Mayo, Philip L. “Those Who Call Themselves Jews”: The Church and Judaism in the Apocalypse of John. Princeton theological monograph series. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2006. x + 212 pp.The interpretation of Revelation 2:9 is one of the cruces interpretum in Revelation. Regardless of one's interpretation, this relatively new publication ...

Barr (ed.), Reading Revelation

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Barr, David L. (ed.) Reading the Book of Revelation: A Resource for Students. Resources for Biblical study, 44. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2004. x + 206 pp. A much cheeper paperback edition (ix + 199 pp.) is published by Society of Biblical Litterature.Publisher's information, including a Table of Contents, is available ...