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Stuckenbruck, Angel Veneration and Christology

by Georg S. Adamsen on December 30, 2007

in Christology

Stuckenbruck, Loren T.: Angel Veneration and Christology: A Study in Early Judaism and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John. (WUNT 2, 70). Tübingen: Mohr, 1995. xviii + 348 pp. In print. €44.00 See a list of reviews here. This volume is accessible in part in Google Books.

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Bauckham, Richard: The Climax of Prophecy. Studies on the Book of Revelation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993. xviii + 550 pp. This book is closely connected with Bauckham’s Theology and sometimes provides the arguments or more detailed arguments to the views in The Theology, sometimes extends or develops arguments in depth. Bauckham knows other [...]

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Hoffmann, Destroyer

by Georg S. Adamsen on December 28, 2007

in Angelology,Christology,Eschatology,Use of the Old Testament

Hoffmann, Matthias Reinhard. The Destroyer and the Lamb: The Relationship Between Angelomorphic and Lamb Christology in the Book of Revelation. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Series 2, 203. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005. xvi + 311 pp. This volume- originally presented as the author’s Ph.D.-thesis, “Angelomorphic Christology and the Book of Revelation,” in Durham – argues [...]

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Moyise, Steve (ed.) Studies in the Book of Revelation. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2001. xvii + 206 pp. ISBN: 0567088146 (hb.), 0567088049 (pbk.). Essays included: The Words of Prophecy: Reading the Apocalypse Theologically, by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (pp. 1-20) Seventh-Day Adventism: Self-Appointed Laodicea, by Robert Surridge (pp. 21-42) The Enthroned Christ of Revelation 5:6 and the [...]

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Barr, David Lawrence (ed.) The Reality of Apocalypse: Rhetoric and Politics in the Book of Revelation. Society of Biblical Literature symposium series, 39. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006. ix + 306 pp. RRP £19.22 Barr, who headed the Seminar on the Apocalypse: The Intersection of Literary and Social Methos, has selected a number of essays to [...]

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Beasley-Murray, Second Coming

by Georg S. Adamsen on September 8, 2007

in Parousia (Second Advent)

Beasley-Murray, G. R. “The Second Coming in the Book of Revelation.” Evangelical Quarterly 23, no. 1 (1951): 40-5. Available online at http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/eq/revelation_beasley-murray.pdf. Beasley-Murray argues that the true background of John’s doctrine is “the experience of the powers of evil in opposition to the Spirit of God, and the conviction that only the forth-putting of the [...]

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Revelation uses many Christological titles, such as ‘Christ’ and ‘one like a son of man’. Revelation also describes Christ in a number of ways that scholars have tried to isolate, describe and determine the background of. My own position is that the titles and imagery employed have their origins in the OT and in the [...]

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Adamsen, Georg S. “Åbenbaringen af Jesus Kristus – Åbenbaringsbogen og dens metaforer”. i Til tro, nr. 2, 2000.

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