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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.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Scott, Robert Balgarnie Young: The Original Language of the Apocalypse. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1928. 25 pp. including bibliographical references.In this volume - originally a Ph.D.-thesis submitted to University of Toronto, Scott (for short biographies, see here and here) argued that Revelation was originally written in Hebrew.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Laughlin, T. Cowden: The Solecisms of the Apocalypse. Princeton: C.S. Robinson & Co., University Printers, 1902. 23 pp. Now on-line.Despite its modest size, Laughlin's booklet is his Ph.D.-thesis, presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in 1902. It contains a systematic analysis of the peculiar language of Revelation.Laughlin ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Beale, Gregory K. John's Use of the Old Testament in Revelation. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, no. 166. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. 443 pp.A standard-setting study published in the early 1999. The volume includes the following chapters that, for some parts, are reprints or ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Evans, Craig A., and James A. Sanders, eds. Early Christian Interpretation of the Scriptures of Israel: Investigations and Proposals. Journal for the study of the New Testament, vol. 148; Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity, 5. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. 476 pp.Includes a methodological essay on ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Aune, David E.: Revelation 1-5. WBC 52A. Waco, TX: Word, 1997.-: Revelation 6-16. WBC 52B. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998.-: Revelation 17-22. WBC 52C. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998.Vol. 1 of this commentary features a more than 200 pages introduction covering everything from textual criticism to the langugage of ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Schmid, J. Studien zur Geschichte des griechischen Apokalypse-Textes. Münchener theologische Studien. I. Historische Abteilung. Ergänzungsband 1. 3 vols. München: Karl Zink Verlag, 1955-1956.This study was groundbreaking and laid a new foundation for the study of the text of Revelation.Volume 1 of this study is the critical edition of Andrew of ...
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