A Commentary on the Revelation of St John

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-7135-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: Black's New Testament Commentaries

George Caird's commentary in this series was a masterpiece of clarity and accessibility. But it many respects it is now very dated. Scholarship is no longer so closely bound to theories of Roman persecution under Domitian as the historical setting for the Apocalypse. Much work has been done on the nature of apocalyptic which has shifted the emphasis away from eschatology to the revelation of heavenly mysteries. A number of the ideas which influenced Caird have been refuted or criticised. This book contains a far more substantial introduction, a greater exploration of revelation as a visionary text and pays much more attention to the overall structure of the work. Following the example of Morna Hooker in Mark, Dr Boxall includes excurses tackling subjects such as numerology, the number of the beast, the Millennium.

Here is a commentary which is fully up to date and which brings fresh understanding to a most controversial book on the Bible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boxall, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Bibelwissenschaften: Sachbuch, Erbauung, Didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Boxall is Senior Tutor and Tutorial Fellow in New Testament at St Stephen's House, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford. He is the author of 'Revelation: Vision and Insight'.