Archive for the ‘General Introduction’ Category

Domitian - the Beast?

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Take a look at the blog One coin at a time. Brett Telford is the owner of a fine collection of coins with The Twelve Caesars. The entry "DOMITIAN!!!!!" displays two very fine photographs of a coin with Domitian. Ethelbert Stauffer was a German Protestant theologian who held that gematria, the numerology ...

Head on Aune on the Text of Revelation

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Scholars interested in the textual-criticism of Revelation should take a look at this post written by Peter M. Head: Evangelical Textual Criticism: Aune on the Text of Revelation Aune on the Text of RevelationI have been impressed with Aune's text-critical work in his commentary on Revelation. It contains perhaps the most thorough ...

Keith A. Mathison (ed.), When Shall These Things Be?

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Mathison, Keith A., ed. When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism. Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P & R Publishing, 2004. xxii + 376 pp.This volume critiques "hyper-preterism," the view that all prophecy in Scripture has already been fulfilled.For more on this volume, visit Riddleblog's "Eschatology Q & A ...

Dr. Ian Paul

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Metaphors and Revelation 12-13 Alan Brady over at Café Apocalypsis has a nice summary of parts of Dr. Ian Paul's article "" in Studies in the Book of Revelation, ed. S. Moyse (see here) and some methodological reflections on the interpretation of metaphors. Ian Paul's essay is based on his Ph.D.-dissertation, "The ...

Lücke, Einleitung

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Lücke, Friedrich. Versuch einer vollständigen Einleitung in die Offenbarung Johannis oder Allgemeine Untersuchungen über die apokalyptische Litteratur überhaupt und die Apokalypse des Johannes insbesondere. 2nd ed. Commentar über die Schriften des Evangelisten Johannes, 4:1. Bonn: Eduard Weber, 1852. xviii + 1074 pp.The classic introduction to Revelation and the apocalyptic literature ...

Mosbech, Sproglig Fortolkning

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Mosbech, Holger. Sproglig Fortolkning til Johannes' Åbenbaring. København: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1944. viii + 216 pp.This volume is a companion volume to Mosbech's commentary, published a year earlier. It provides a linguistic analysis of and commentary on Revelation. It is still very valuable.

Trench, Epistles to the Seven Churches

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Trench, Richard Chenevix. Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia, Revelation II.III. 1st ed. London: Parker, Son, & Bourn, 1861. xi + 225 pp. At least six editions were published in the UK and the USA in the 19th century. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock ...