Archive for the ‘Roman Emperors’ 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 ...

Bauckham, Climax of Prophecy

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Bauckham, Richard: The Climax of Prophecy. Studies on the Book of Revelation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993. xviii + 550 pp.This book is closely connected with Bauckham's Theology and sometimes provides the arguments or more detailed arguments to the views in The Theology, sometimes extends or develops arguments in ...

Witulski, Johannesoffenbarung und Kaiser Hadrian

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Witulski, Thomas. Die Johannesoffenbarung und Kaiser Hadrian: Studien zur Datierung der neutestamentlichen Apokalpyse. Forschung zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, vol. 221. Göttingen: Vandehoeck und Ruprecht, 2007. 415 pp. €84.00This volume - part of his Habilitationsschrift! - argues that Revelation was written very late, around 132 AD.Witulski ...

Sordi, Christians and the Roman Empire

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Sordi, Marta. The Christians and the Roman Empire. London; London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.Sordi has treated the topic of relationship between the Roman Empire and the Christians earlier (Il christianesimo e Roma (1965) and this is her second book on this theme. Her view has not changed, but this ...

Scherrer, Revelation 13

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Scherrer, Steven Joseph. Revelation 13 as an Historical Source for the Imperial Cult under Domitian. Diss. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1979.See the remarks on Scherrer, Signs and Wonders.

Adamsen on Garrow (review)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Revelation Reviews ISSN 1397-2936.Volume 2.001. Jan 1998 (Publication date: 15 Jan 1998)Alan J.P. Garrow: Revelation. New Testament Readings. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 140. ISBN: 0-415-14641-0.This book is part of the New Testament Readings series which is "designed as a group of individual interpretations ...

Keresztes, Imperial Rome

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Keresztes, P.: Imperial Rome and the Christians. Vol. 1. From Herod the Great to about 200 A.D. Lanham, MD./New York/London, 1989.Keresztes focuses on Roman government and law. Chapter 2: “Paul, the Acts and Imperial Rome” (pp. 45-66), chapter 3: “The Profession of Christianity Made Criminal” (pp. 67-82) and chapter 4: ...