Archive for the ‘History of interpretation’ Category

Beckwith, Apocalypse

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Beckwith, I. T.: The Apocalypse of John. Studies in Introduction with a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. The Macmillan Company: New York 1919. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock publishers, 2001. xv + 794 pp.Also reprinted 1992 and by Baker Book House in 1967.This commentary with more than 800 pages is ...

Swete, Apocalypse

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Swete, Henry Barclay: The Apocalypse of St. John. London: Macmillan, 1906. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock publishers, 1999.The second edition was published in 1907 or perhaps already in 1906. The third was published in 1908 and reprinted several times at least until 1917. The commentary was also reprinted by ...

Johannes Munck, Petrus und Paulus

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Munck, Johannes. Petrus und Paulus in der Offenbarung des Johannes: Ein Beitrag zur Auslegung der Apokalypse. Teologiske Skrifter, 1. København: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1950. 125 pp.Johannes Munck (1904-1965) was professor of New Testament at Aarhus University from the very beginning.The Danish professors Peder Madsen and Holger Mosbech had both written ...

Peder Madsen, Johannes’ Aabenbaring

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Madsen, Peder. Johannes’ Aabenbaring: Indledet og fortolket [The Book of Revelation: Introduction and Commentary]. 1st ed. København: G. E. C. Gad, 1887. 2nd ed. 1896. Both editions were published in two parts, the two first volumes in 1885 and 1894. The libraries disagree as to the number of pages. ...

S. J. Davis, Introducing an Arabic Commentary on the Apocalypse

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Davis, Stephen J. "Introducing an Arabic Commentary on the Apocalypse: Ibn Katib Qaysar on Revelation." Harvard Theological Review 101 (2008): 77-96.Here is the abstract from the publisher's website:"Ibn Katib Qaysar's long-neglected Commentary on the Apocalypse of John is a veritable treasure trove for those interested not only in the early ...

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 ...

Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, Geschichte der Auslegung

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

"Geschichte der Auslegung der Apokalypse des Johannes," by Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (1893). Online here: http://www.payer.de/christentum/holtzmann01.htm.First published in: Holtzmann, Heinrich Julius. Evangelium, Briefe und Offenbarung des Johannes. Edited by Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, and R. A. Lipsius. 2nd ed. Hand-Commentar zum Neuen Testament, 4. Tübingen: Mohr, 1893, pp. 280-289.