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. €98.00 This book, based on the author’s Giessen-thesis, outlines the reception history of Rev 20:1-10 (ch. [...]
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The ‘thousand-year’ problem
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 the larger issue of [...]
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 det andet den endelige [...]
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 for en kronologisk fremadskridende [...]
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 insistence that Rev 20:1-10 [...]
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 (amilllennial) interpretation. White is [...]
Bietenhard, Hans. Das tausendjährige Reich. Eine biblisch-theologische Studie. Zürich: Zwingli-Verlag, 1955. Bietenhard’s study is the classical study arguing in favour of the premillennial interpretation.
The “End Times”: A Study on Eschatology and Millennialism. Published by the Commission on Theology and Church Relations of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, 1989. 56 pp. A presentation and analysis of the dispensational premillennialism, historic premillennialism, postmillennialism, and amillennialism (realised millennialism), as well as an analysis of the hermeneutical and dogmatic implications. It provides a [...]