There are a few points in each of the seven letters that are mysterious or deserve special attention. In order to teach on each letter, it helps to give special attention to such points. I have selected out a few…
What is a chiasm? For those who may not be sure what a chiasm is, I will give a brief explanation. A chiasm is a literary structure that one finds in certain parts of the Bible, where the author has…
Perhaps you would like to study Revelation 2-3 with your Bible study group and you need to find some good study questions that you could use for yourself and your students. I am making available the study questions that I…
One of the important dependent or subordinate clauses to learn about in elementary Greek is the relative clause. In Greek, they are introduced by the relative pronoun ὅς (hos). These dependent clauses are sometimes hidden in translations, because authors, like…
Last week, I was given the opportunity to preach on Revelation in chapel. I chose to preach on something other than the common passages that one commonly hears in church, like the seven letters to the seven churches (Rev. 2-3).…
Revelation. Craig Keener. NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000. 576 pp. Craig Keener is a prolific author with some common emphases in his works. He is well-known, for example, for his emphasis upon the value of parallels in Greco-Roman…
The Book of the Revelation, Philip E. Hughes. Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990. 242 pp. Hughes’s commentary on Revelation is not widely known, probably because it has gone out of print. I have found his commentary on…
The Book of Revelation. G. R. Beasley-Murray. New Century Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974. 352 pp. Introduction to the Unique Strengths and Usefulness of Beasley-Murray’s Commentary Grant Osborne was the first person to point out to me the value…
The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text. G. K. Beale. New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. 1245 pp. plus 64 pp. of introduction. Introduction to the Unique Strengths and Usefulness of Beale’s Commentary Beale’s…
Mathewson’s Handbook on the Greek Text of Revelation
Revelation: A Handbook on the Greek Text. By David L. Mathewson. Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016. Paperback, $34.95. David Mathewson, Associate Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, has written important works on…