Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters
Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters

Author: Donald K. McKim

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2007-11-12

Total Pages: 1133

ISBN-13: 083082927X

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Featuring more than two hundred in-depth articles, a comprehensive resource introduces the principal players in the history of biblical interpretation and explores their historical and intellectual contexts, their primary works, their interpretive principles, and their broader historical significance.

Interpreting the Historical Books
Interpreting the Historical Books

Author: Robert B. Chisholm

Publisher: Kregel Academic

Published:

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0825496071

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This valuable reference tool for students and pastors explores the components of the narrative genre—setting, characterization, and plot—and then develops the major theological themes in each of the Old Testament historical books.

Jesus Speaks to Seven of His Churches
Jesus Speaks to Seven of His Churches

Author: David E. Graves

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-30

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9780994806086

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This book is a first of its kind: an innovative exegetical commentary on the messages (letters) to the Seven Churches in Revelation (Rev 2-3). It examines the Graeco-Roman local references from the first century, in the tradition of William Ramsay and Colin Hemer, but also considers the Hebraic-Semitic covenant lawsuit influences and deals with the material set out in Graves' PhD dissertation "The Influence of Ancient Near Eastern Vassal Treaties on the Seven Prophetic Messages in Revelation with Special Reference to the Message to Smyrna" at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (2008). All of the seven cities are considered under a chapter on the historical setting of the city and a theological commentary of the text. It is the first commentary of the seven messages arranged after the ancient Near Eastern vassal treaty structure of preamble, historical prologue, stipulations, blessing and cursing, witness, and deposit/public reading. A scholarly/academic commentary, yet accessible for students, pastors, scholars, teachers, seminarians, and interested laypeople.