Archive for the ‘The 'thousand-year' problem’ Category

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 ...

Bauer, Messiasreich

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Bauer, Thomas Johann. Das tausendjährige Messiasreich der Johannesoffenbarung: Eine literarkritische Studie zu Offb 19,11-21,8. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 148. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 2007. xi + 442 pp. €98.00This book, based on the author's Giessen-thesis, outlines the reception history ...

Remarks on the ‘thousand-year’ problem

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Introduction The interpretation of the 'thousand-year' text in Revelation 20:1-10 (more precisely in verses 2-7) has lead to a flood of literature on this topic. The various views exist in many different versions, and there is hardly two substantial works that agree on all aspects. This 'thousand-year' problem is part of ...

Synnes, Tusenårsrike

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Synnes, Martin. "Kommer det et tusenårsrike? Joh åp 20,4-6 som akilleshæl i bibeltolkningen" i Tidsskrift for Teologi og Kirke 73 (2002): 3-17. I denne artikel argumenterer tidligere førsteamanuensis Martin Synnes for, at tolkningen af Åb 20,4-6 må basere sig på to præmisser. For det første Jesu genkomst i 19,11ff og for ...

Andersen, Guds rige

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Andersen, Ole. Når Guds rige kommer. Tusindsårsriget og den nye jord. Hinnerup: Ordet og Israel, 1995. Ole Andersen behandler afsnittet om det såkaldte tusindårsrige i Åb 20 set i lyset af sammenhængen i Åb, som han forstår den. Andersen argumenterer imod en typisk luthersk tolkning af Åb (a-millennialisme, kirkehistorisk fortolkning) og ...

Adamsen, De tusinde år

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Adamsen, Georg S. "'De tusinde år': Et essay om den kronologiske udstrækning af 'de tusinde år' i Åb 20,2-7" ('The Thousand Years': An Essay About the Chronological Duration of the Thousand Years in Ap 20:2-7). Ichthys 25, no. 2 (1998) 67-83. Adamsen concedes that the millennial interpretation is right in its ...

White, Rev 20:1-10 (two articles)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

White, Randall Fowler. "Reexamining the Evidence for Recapitulation in Rev 20:1-10." Westminster Theological Journal 51 (1989) 319-34.-. "Making Sense of Rev 20:1-10? Harold Hoehner Versus Recapitulation." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 37 (1994) 539-51.White's two articles argue that Revelation 20 must be understood on the background of a recapitulationist ...