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 by Dr. Philip Mayo [...]
From the category archives:
Criticism
Slater, Thomas B. Christ and Community: A Socio-Historical Study of the Christology of Revelation. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, 178. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. More on this volume later. Reviews: James L. Resseguie, Review of Biblical Literature (2000) (direct link here) Bob Royalty, Review of Biblical Literature (2000) (direct [...]
Carey, Greg: Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John. (Studies in Biblical Hermeneutics, 15). Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999. xiv + 209 pp. Employing not only the rhetorical notion of authorial ethos, but postcolonial and resistance criticism, this book, a (probably revised) edition of Carey’s 1996 Ph.D.-thesis, deals with how Revelation constructs [...]
Lee, Dal. The Narrative Asides in the Book of Revelation. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2002. 186 pp. Lee applies methods of new literary criticism to the apocalyptic book of the Bible, focusing on narrative asides, which have recently begun to be studied in other books of the New Testament as well. The study [...]
Resseguie, James L. Revelation Unsealed: A Narrative Critical Approach to John’s Apocalypse. (Biblical Interpretation Series, 32). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. 233 pp. Published in 1998 (as is James Barr’s study), Resseguie likewise provides a narrative critical analysis of Revelation. In many ways, Resseguie’s methodology is less explicit than Barr’s, but he provides quite many [...]
Garrow, Alan J.P.: Revelation. (New Testament Readings). London & New York: Routledge, 1997. 156 pp. Garrow’s book is a refreshing reading of Revelation which was originally submitted as a M Phil thesis at Coventry University. His aim is to locate the “story” (the content of the scroll in Rev 5) in Revelation, i.e. to answer [...]
Tóth, Franz. Der himmlische Kult: Wirklichkeitskonstruktion und Sinnbildung in der Johannesoffenbarung. Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte, 22. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2006. xii + 613 pp. A rough translation of the publisher’s information: “The readers of Revelation are invited to submerge themselves into a textual world. In this world a cultic event is happening in [...]
Witherington, Revelation
by Georg S. Adamsen on January 5, 2008
in Scholarly commentaries,Socio-rhetorical analysis
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 as accurately as [...]
Tagged as: Ben Witherington III
Write a comment!