Archive for the ‘Use of the Old Testament’ Category

Farrer, Rebirth of Images

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 ...

Fekkes, "His Bride Has Prepared Herself"

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.

Huber, Like a Bride Adorned

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 ...

Mathewson, New Heaven and a New Earth

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 ...

Brueggemann, The Use of the Psalter

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: ...

Trudinger, The Text of the OT in Revelation

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.

Beale, Use of Daniel

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, ...