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Domitian – the Beast?

Published April 20, 2008 by dr. Georg Adamsen. Last Updated January 29, 2016 1 Comment

Link to a site with fine photographs of Domitian including a discussion of the theory that Domitian, not Nero, is the beast.

Filed Under: Coins, Roman Emperors, Websites Tagged With: Brett Telford, domitian, domitianus, Ethelbert Stauffer, gematria, number of the beast

Bauckham, Climax of Prophecy

Published December 29, 2007 by dr. Georg Adamsen. Last Updated January 29, 2016 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Anti-Christ, Christology, Eschatology, Imagery, Pneumatology, Relationship to extra-biblical literature, Relationship to the New Testament, Roman Emperors, Structure Tagged With: Richard J. Bauckham

Witulski, Johannesoffenbarung und Kaiser Hadrian

Published December 28, 2007 by dr. Georg Adamsen. Last Updated January 29, 2016 Leave a Comment

Witulski, Thomas. Die Johannesoffenbarung und Kaiser Hadrian: Studien zur Datierung der neutestamentlichen Apokalpyse. Forschung zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, vol. 221. Göttingen: Vandehoeck und Ruprecht, 2007. 415 pp. €84.00 This volume – part of his Habilitationsschrift! – argues that Revelation was written very late, around 132 AD. Witulski argues that Rev […]

Filed Under: Dating, New publications, Roman Emperors Tagged With: Thomas Witulski

Sordi, Christians and the Roman Empire

Published August 25, 2007 by dr. Georg Adamsen. Last Updated August 25, 2007 Leave a Comment

Sordi, Marta. The Christians and the Roman Empire. London; London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Sordi has treated the topic of relationship between the Roman Empire and the Christians earlier (Il christianesimo e Roma (1965) and this is her second book on this theme. Her view has not changed, but this book treats the questions […]

Filed Under: Imperial cult, Persecutions, Roman Emperors Tagged With: Marta Sordi

Scherrer, Revelation 13

Published August 25, 2007 by dr. Georg Adamsen. Last Updated August 25, 2007 Leave a Comment

Scherrer, Steven Joseph. Revelation 13 as an Historical Source for the Imperial Cult under Domitian. Diss. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1979. See the remarks on Scherrer, Signs and Wonders.

Filed Under: Imperial cult, Roman Emperors Tagged With: Steven Joseph Scherrer

Adamsen on Garrow (review)

Published August 25, 2007 by dr. Georg Adamsen. Last Updated August 25, 2007 Leave a Comment

Revelation Reviews ISSN 1397-2936.Volume 2.001. Jan 1998 (Publication date: 15 Jan 1998) Alan J.P. Garrow: Revelation . New Testament Readings. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 140. ISBN: 0-415-14641-0. This book is part of the New Testament Readings series which is “designed as a group of individual interpretations or ‘readings’ of the text, offering […]

Filed Under: Dating, Narratological analysis, Reader-oriented criticism, Reviews, Roman Emperors Tagged With: Alan John Philip Garrow, Georg S. Adamsen

Keresztes, Imperial Rome

Published August 25, 2007 by dr. Georg Adamsen. Last Updated August 25, 2007 Leave a Comment

Keresztes, P.: Imperial Rome and the Christians. Vol. 1. From Herod the Great to about 200 A.D. Lanham, MD./New York/London, 1989. Keresztes focuses on Roman government and law. Chapter 2: “Paul, the Acts and Imperial Rome” (pp. 45-66), chapter 3: “The Profession of Christianity Made Criminal” (pp. 67-82) and chapter 4: “The Terror of Domitian” […]

Filed Under: Imperial cult, Persecutions, Roman Emperors Tagged With: P. Keresztes

Thompson, Book of Revelation (monograph)

Published August 25, 2007 by dr. Georg Adamsen. Last Updated January 29, 2016 1 Comment

Thompson, Leonard L. The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire. 1990; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. In my opinion, Thompson’s study is one of the most important studies on Revelation written in the last decade. Thompson argues strongly that the traditional pejorative view on Domitian is due not to balanced arguments in modern […]

Filed Under: Asia Minor, Dating, Imperial cult, Persecutions, Roman Emperors Tagged With: Leonard L. Thompson

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