Archive for the ‘Structure’ Category
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Wilson, Mark Wayne. The Victor Sayings in the Book of Revelation. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2007. 294 pp. PaperbackThis volume is based on the author's Ph.D.-thesis (see abstract here). Wilson analyses this very important motif that also is also of great importance for the overall interpretation of Revelation's ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Barr, David Lawrence. "The Apocalypse of John As Oral Enactment." Interpretation 40 (1986): 243-56."The original audience encountered (Apoc) as an aural experience (1:3) and that experience determined both the way the Apoc. was structured and the meaning the auditors found in it."Quoted from Wood, Structure, p. 13 n. 37.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Dr. Darin M. Wood has written a helpful and well-documented essay on the structure(s) of Revelation (2006).I noticed one or two minor mistakes. Wood ascribes the recapitulation theory to Joachim of Fiore and cites Wainwright, Mysterious Apocalypse, p. 51. However, according to Wainwright (p. 35), the recapitulation theory was used ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Bornkamm, Günther. "Die Komposition der apokalyptischen Visionen in der Offenbarung Johannis." Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 36 (1937): 132-149. Reprinted in Studien zu Antike und Christentum: Gesammelte Aufsätze II, 204-22. Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie, 28. 3rd ed. München: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1970.Bornkamm's article is an important, but, unfortunately, rarely used ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Pattemore, Stephen W. Souls Under the Altar: Relevance Theory and the Discourse Structure of Revelation. UBS Monographs Series, vol. 9. New York: United Bible Societies, 2003. xiii + 241.More to follow ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Siew, Antoninus King Wai. The War Between the Two Beasts and the Two Witnesses: A Chiastic Reading of Revelation 11:1-14:5. Library of New Testament studies, 283. London; New York: T&T Clark, 2005. xiv + 331 pp.
Siew argues that the concept of chiasm should be employed in the analysis of the ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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 ...
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