Archive for the ‘Social-scientific criticism’ Category

Sheets, Sitz im Leben (abstract)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Sheets, Dwight David. The Sitz Im Leben of the Apocalypse: Realized Eschatology and Apocalyptic Expression. This dissertation was submitted to and passed by the Center for Advanced Theological Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA) in June 2000, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (New Testament). The readers ...

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 ...