Archive for the ‘History of interpretation’ Category

Zahn, Offenbarung

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Zahn, Theodor. Die Offenbarung des Johannes ausgelegt. Leipzig: Deichert, 1924-1926; reprint, Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus Verlag, 1986. vi + 633 pp.This work deserves a detailed presentation. It is an erudite commentary that presents material and insights hardly found elsewhere. Zahn provides a detailed overview of the history of interpretation.

Kretschmar, Offenbarung des Johannes

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Kretschmar, Georg: Die Offenbarung des Johannes: Die Geschichte ihrer Auslegung im 1. Jahrtausend. Calwer Theologische Monographien, B9. Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1985. 164 pp.Kretschmar's book is not only a presentation of its history of interpretation throughout the first millennium. It also presents the author's view on introductory matters and its overall ...

Craig Koester, History of Interpretation

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Koester, Craig R. "On the Verge of the Millennium: A History of the Interpretation of Revelation." Word and World 15 (1995): 128-36.In his outline of the history of interpretation, Koester deals with:Ancient interpretation are futuristic or timelessJoachim of Fiore and church renewalLuther as the heir of earlier approaches, and Luther's ...

Maier, Johannesoffenbarung

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Maier, Gerhard. Die Johannesoffenbarung und die Kirche. (WUNT, 25). Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1981.This book with more than 600 pages is one of the most profound studies of the history of interpretation of Revelation.It thesis is that the chiliastic interpretation is the correct one, and it follows the debate between chiliasts ...

Kovacs and Rowland, Revelation

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Kovacs, Judith L., and Christopher Rowland. Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. Blackwell Bible commentaries. Malden, Maryland: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. xviii + 315 pp.This volume is recommended!The concept of this commentary recommends itself. Amazon lets you take a look at some pages, including the indices, which reveal the coverage of ...

Taushev, Apocalypse

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Taushev, Averky. The Apocalypse: In the Teachings of Ancient Christianity. 2nd ed. Translated and edited, with Annotation, an Introduction, and a Life of the Author, by Seraphim Rose. Platina, California: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1995. 306 pp.This commentary, a translation of an Russian original by Seraphim Rose, is based ...

Hill, Regnum caelorum

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Hill, Charles E. Regnum caelorum: Patterns of Future Hope in Early Christianity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. xviii + 236 pp.Hill, Charles E. Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity. , 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2001. xx + 324 pp.In the first edition of ...