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.

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.

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 concludes that the solecisms “are clearly due to the influence which the prophetic writings of the Old Testament, either in their Hebrew form or in that of their translation into Grekk–the Septuagaint–exerted upon the Author” (p. 21).

Laughlin also presents a number of “corollaries”: the solecisms are not an argument for the early date; they do not support a non-apostolic authorship; they do not require a substantial time interval between the Revelation and the Gospel according to John; John was not ignorant of correct Greek usage, but made a conscious effort to use the LXX and Hebrew idiom.

It is now available on-line in a variety of formats at The Internet Archive (direct link pdf-format)

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 revisions of earlier publications. With this volume, one has ready access to several of Beale’s important contributions to the problem of John’s Use of the OT. Unfortunately, this volume is out of print.

1. Introduction: Recent Discussion and Debate about the Use of the Old Testament in Revelation (pp. 13-59)
2. The Various Ways John Uses the Old Testament (pp. 60-128)
3. The Influence of the Old Testament upon the Eschatology of Revelation (The chapter covers: the ‘already and not yet-eschatology; the interpretation of Rev 1:19; the temporal scope of the sevenfold series of trumpets and bowls; the use of mustêrion in Revelation and elsewhere; and the OT background of Rev 3:14) (pp. 129-294)
4. The Influence of the Old Testament upon the Symbolism of Revelation [The chapter covers: symbolism as the predominate mode of communication, and the hearing formula]
5. The Influence of the Old Testament on the Grammar of Revelation: Solecisms in Revelation as Signals for the Presence of Old Testament Allusions (A Selective Analysis of Revelation 1-22] (pp. 318-355; this chapter is a revision of Beale’s contribution in Evans & Sanders, Early Christian Interpretation)
6. The Bearing of the Old Testament on the Interpretation of the Millennium in Revelation 20:1-7 (pp. 356-393)

The back matters consist of bibliography and indices of References and Authors. The front matters include a list of abbreviations and information about the relationship to Beale’s earlier publications.

Kenneth Newport, review of G. K. Beale, John’s Use of the Old Testament in Revelation, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2000) and

James E. West, review of G. K. Beale, John’s Use of the Old Testament in Revelation, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2000).

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 the use of the Old Testament by Stanley E. Porter. The title is “The Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament: A Brief comment on Method and Terminology” (pp. 79-97).

The volume also includes an essay by Gregory K. Beale: “Solecisms in the Apocalypse as Signals for the Presence of the Old Testament Allusions: A Selective Analysis of Revelation 1-22″ (pp. 421-446). A revision of this chapter in includes in ch. 5 of Beale, Use of the OT.