Archive for the ‘Criticism’ Category

Stenström, Book of Revelation (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Stenström, Hanne. The Book of Revelation. A Vision of the Ultimate Liberation or the Ultimate Backlash? A study in 20th Century interpretations of Rev 14:1-5, with special emphasis on feminist exegesis. Doctoral dissertation publicly defended at Uppsala University April 10th, 1999 for the Degree of Doctor of Theology (New Testament ...

Johns, Lamb Christology (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Johns, Loren L. The Origins and Rhetorical Force of the Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John. Bluffton College. Dissertation Adviser: Dr. James H. Charlesworth. Date of defence: 13 Feb 1998.An investigation of the origins and rhetorical force of the lamb imagery in the Apocalypse of John. Chapter one introduces ...

Carey, Attention-Seeking Behaviour (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Carey, William Gregory. Attention-Seeking Behavior: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Authority in the Book of Revelation. Dissertation under the direction of Professor Fernando F. Segovia. Vanderbilt University, 1996.Authority represents a fundamental dimension of the Book of Revelation, which resists the Roman Empire of the late first century and those Jews, Christians, ...

Marshall, Parables of the War (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Marshall, John W.: Parables of the War: Reading the Apocalypse within Judaism and during the Judaean War. Ph.D.-dissertation, Princeton University. Supervisor: John G. Gager. Date of defence: 7th November 1997This dissertation resituates the Apocalypse of John as a document of the Jewish diaspora during the Judaean War. ...

Thompson, Revelation

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Thompson, Leonard. L. Revelation. Abingdon New Testament Commentaries. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998. 207 pp.Thompson's commentary employs social-scientific methods and argues strongly that there was no persecution in the last decade of the first century. Thompson has many ingenious observations on Revelation and is particularly useful for those who do not want ...

Fiorenza, Revelation

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler: Revelation. Vision of a just World. Edinburgh: T&& Clark, 1993 (= Augsburg Fortress 1991). Fiorenza's 150 page commentary contains an index of scriptural passages and a bibliography and three parts: Introduction, Commentary and a part about Theo-Ethical Rhetoric.Although I personally and many others with me do not ...

Barr, Tales of the End

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Barr, David L. Tales of the End: A Narrative Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Santa Rosa, California: PolebridgePress, 1998. 228 pp.In this book, Barr applies narratological theory to the analysis of Revelation. As an attempt of narrative critical interpretation, it deserves to be read.However, in my ...