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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Farrer, Austin. A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John’s Apocalypse. Westminster [London]: Dacre Press, 1949. Reprint. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1986. 348 pp. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2007. 350 pp.This classic volume, a very influential work, is now in print again!"In ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Fekkes, Jan, III. " 'His Bride Has Prepared Herself': Revelation 19-21 and Isaian Nuptial Imagery." Journal of Biblical Literature 109 (1990): 269-87.
One of the important studies of the bride metaphor.
See also McIlraith, Love and Huber, Like a Bride Adorned as well as Fekkes, Isaiah.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Huber, Lynn R. 2007. Like a Bride Adorned: Reading Metaphor in John’s Apocalypse. Emory Studies in Early Christianity. New York: T&T Clark International. xi + 221 pp.The bride metaphor is a powerful one. It has been investigated by McIlraith and Jan Fekkes (and others). Studies like this one are welcome ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Mathewson, Dave L. New Heaven and a New Earth: The Meaning and Function of the Old Testament in Revelation 21.1-22.5. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, 238. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003. xii + 282 pp.This volume, based on the author's Ph.D.-dissertation "The Meaning and Function ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Brueggemann, Dale A. The Use of the Psalter in John’s Apocalypse. D.Phil.-dissertation, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1995. 303 pp., incl. a 53 page bibliography and 11 pages of 7 appendices.Dale Brueggemann was advised by Tremper Longman, III. Vern S. Poythress was the second faculty reader.Here are some notes on Brueggemann's thesis: ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Trudinger, L. P. The Text of the Old Testament in the Book of Revelation. Th.D.-dissertation, Boston University School of Theology, 1963.Cf. his "Some Observations Concerning the Text of the Old Testament in the Book of Revelation." Journal of Theological Studies 17 (1966): 82-8.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Beale, Gregory K. The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1984. xiv + 349 pp.Beale's thesis is based on his 1980 Cambridge Ph. D. dissertation with some revision.It is an important study for many reasons. Firstly, ...
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