Archive for the ‘Eschatology’ Category
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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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 ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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 ...
Posted in Anti-Christ, Christology, Eschatology, Imagery, Pneumatology, Relationship to extra-biblical literature, Relationship to the New Testament, Roman Emperors, Structure | No Comments »
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 ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
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," ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Herms, Ronald. An Apocalypse for the Church and for the World: The Narrative Function of Universal Language in the Book of Revelation. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 143. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. xv + 299 pp. €88,00.
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