Archive for the ‘Symbolism’ Category
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Giblin, Charles H. The Book of Revelation: The Open Book of Prophecy. Good News Studies, 34. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1991. 213 pp.Giblin's commentary develops the use of the holy war-imagery in Revelation and also pays great attention to structure. An important commentary (despite its modest size).
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Collins, Adela Yarbro. "Numerical Symbolism in Jewish and Early Christian Apocalyptic Literature." In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Edited by W. Haase, and H. Temporini, II:21: 1221-87. 1984.See also chapter 3 with the same title in Collins, Adela Yarbro. Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism. Brill’s ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Ryken, L., J. C. Wilhoit, and T. Longman III. Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1998.This dictionary is a very helpful tool for the understanding not only of Revelation, but of the whole Bible. It contains more than a thousand two-column pages filled with surveys of biblical ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Beale, G. K. The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text. New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdsmans Publishing, 1999.Beale's commentary, a 1200+ page commentary, is probably the most interesting commentary published for several decades. It features a lengthy introduction covering among other things ...
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