Archive for the ‘Premillennialism’ Category
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Johann Albrecht Bengel, who is also known by the English rendering: John Albert Bengel, was born in Württemberg i Germany in 1687. He died in 1752. He was contemporary with Johann Sebastian Bach who lived from 1685 to 1750. While Bach was a North German, Bengel was from the South ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Mealy, J. Webb: After the Thousand Years: Resurrection and Judgment in Revelation 20. (JSNT.SS 70). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992. 273 pp.Mealy's study is the first monograph on Revelation 20 since Bietenhard's from 1955. Mealy argues in favour of a premillennial position, even though he, at first, seems to present ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Wainwright, Arthur William. Mysterious Apocalypse: Interpreting the Book of Revelation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993. 293 pages, bibliography, indices and 35 pages with notes. Reprint. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock publishers, 2001.This very well-written and well researched book contains three parts, the first of which treats "The Millennium and History". It ...
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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
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
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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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 ...
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