BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN, ESCHATOLOGY, APOCALYPTIC, MILLENNIUM, AND RELATED ISSUES John H. Elliott
1. The Apocalypse of John and early Christianity pp. 1-9 2. Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (Texts), p. 9 3. Apocalypse as a Genre; "Apocalyptic, Apocalypticism;" Ancient Millennarianism (Millennialism, Chiliasm), pp. 9-14 4. Astronomy, Astrology; Numerology in Apocalyptic Texts, pp.14-16 5. Studies on the Use and Influence of the Apocalypse of John in Western Cultural and Political History, pp. 16-17 6. Eschatological/Apocalyptic Views in Modern Time (Literature, Science Fiction, Art, Music, Cinema etc.); Eschatogical, End of the Age/End of the World Scenarios, pp. 17-18 7. Millennium Studies, p. 19. 8. Modern Millennialist and Adventist Movements (Social, Ethnic, Religious) and Thought, pp. 19-
1. The Apocalypse of John
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"Things Sacrificed to Idols." New Testament Studies 11 (1964-65): 138-53. Bauckham, F. J. "The Worship of Jesus in Apocalyptic Christianity." New Testament Studies 27 (1981): 322-41. Bauckham, R. "The Economic Criticism of Rome in the Book of Revelation 18." In Images of Empire. Ed. Alexander Loveday. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991. Pp. 47-90. Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Beasley-Murray, G. R. The Book of Revelation. New Century Bible. London: Oliphants, 1974. Bell, Albert T. "The Date of John's Apocalypse: The Evidence of Some Roman Historians Reconsidered." New Testament Studies 25 (1978-79): 93-102. Black, Matthew. "The `Two Witnesses' of Rev. 11:3f in Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Tradition." In Donum Gentilicum. Ed. E. Bammel, C. K. Barrett, and W. D. DAvies. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. 226-38. Böcher, Otto. Die Johannesapokalypse. Erträge der Forschung 41. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1975. Boismard, M. E. "L'Apocalypse' ou `les apocalypses' de S. Jean." Revue Biblique 56 (1949): 507-27. Boll, Franz. Aus der Offenbarung Johannis: Hellenistische Studien zum Weltbild der Apokalypse. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1967; reprint of Leipzig/Berlin 1914. Boring, Eugene M. "The Apocalypse as Christian Prophecy: A Discussion of the Issues Raised by the Book of Revelation for the Study of Early Christian Prophecy." In SBL Seminar Papers 1974. Ed. G. W. MacRae. Missoula: Society of Biblical Literature, 1974. Pp. ca. 47.. Botinh, M. Eugene. Revelation. Lousiville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1989. Bornkamm, Günther. "Die Komposition der apokalyptischen Visionen in der Offenbarung Johannis." Zeitschrift zur Neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft 36 (1937): 132-49; reprinted in Studien zu Antike und Urchristentum: Gesammelte Aufsätze. Vol. 2. BEvT 28. Munich, 1959. Pp. 204-22. Bousset, Wilhelm. The AntiChrist Legend: A Chapeter in Christian and Jewish Folklore. London: Hutchinson, 1896. ET of Der Antichrist in der Überlieferung des Judentums, des Neuen Testament und er alten Kirche: Ein Beitrag zur Auslegung der Apokalypse (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1895). Bousset, Wilhelm. Die Offenbarung Johannis. MeyerK (Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar über das Neue Testament). 6. Aufl. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1906. Bowman, J. W. The Drama of the Book of Revelation. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1955. Bowman, J. W. "The Revelation to John: Its Dramatic Structure and Message." Interpretation 9 (1955): 436-53. Caird, G. B. A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John the Divine. Harper New Testament Commentary Series. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Caird, G. B. The Revelation of St. John the Divine. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987. Calkins, R. The Social Message of the Book of Revelation. New York: The Woman's Press, 1920. Callahan, Allen Dwight. "The Language of the Apocalypse." Harvard Theological Review 88/4 (1995): 453-70. Charles, R. H. The Revelation of St. John. 2 vols. International Critical Commentary. New York: Scribner's, 1920. Chevalier, J. M. A Postmodern Revelation: Signs of Astrology and the Apocalypse. Toronto-Buffalo, NY-London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Collins, John J. "Pseudonymity, Historical Reviews, and the Genre of the Revelation of John." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 39 (1977): 329-43. Collins, J. "Symposium: Apocalyptic Symbolism and Social Reality." Biblical Research 26 (1981) 4-45. Court, J. Myth and History in the Book of Revelation. Atlanta: John Knox, 1979. Pp. 1-19 on the history of scholarship. Coutsoumpos, Panayotis. "The Social Implication of Idolatry in Revelation 2:14: Christ of Caesar?" Biblical Theology Bulletin 27/1 (1997): 23-27. Day, John. God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea. Cambirdge:Cambridge University Press, 1985. De Groote, M. Oecuemni commentarius in apocalypsin. Tradition Graeca 8. Leuven: Peeters, 1998. Delling, G. "Zum gottesdienstliches Stil der Johannesapokalypse." In Studien zum Neuen Testament und zum hellenistischen Judentum: Gesammelte Aufsatze 1950-1968. Ed. F. Hahn, T. Holtz und N. Walter, pp. 425-450. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1970. Dougherty, James. The Fivesquare City: the City in the Religious Imagination. Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1980.[city as symbol of the sacred in Western civilization] Elliott, James Keith. "The Distinctiveness of the Greek Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation." Journal of Theological Studies 48/1 (1997): 116-124. [Rev contained in 303 NT MSS. Some contain only Rev, some other NT writings also. Oldest fragment appears to be P98 in Cairo [2d cent CE]. Four main texts types differ from rest of NT. 3 lists of MSS given] Elliott, John H. "Sorcery and Magic in the Revelation of John." Listening. Journal of Religion and Culture 28/3 (1993): 261-76. Esler, Philip F. "Political Oppression in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature: A Social-Scientific Approach." Listening. Journal of Religion and Culture 28/3 (1993): 181-99. Farrer, Austin. A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John's Apocalypse. London: Dacre Press, 1949; reprinted Albany, 1986. Feuillet, André. L'Apocalypse; Etat de la question. Studia Neotestamentica, Subsidia 3. Paris: Descleé de Brouwer, 1963. ET: The Apocalypse. Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1965. Feuillet, André. Johannine Studies. New York: Alba House, 1965. Fiorenza, E. S. See Schüssler Fiorenza, E. Ford, Josephine Massyngbaerde. Revelation. AB 38. New York: Doubleday, 1975. Ford, Josephine Massyngbaerde. "The Priestly People of God in the Apocalypse." Listening. Journal of Religion and Culture 28/3 (1993): 245-60. Forsyth, Neil. The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Freundorfer, Joseph. Die Apokalypse des Apostels Johannes und die hellenistische Kosmologie und Astrologie. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1929. Friesen, Steven J. "Revelation, Realia, and Religion: Archaeology in the Interpretation of the Apocalypse." Harvard Theological Review 88/3 (1995): 291-314. Hemer, Colin J. The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting. Sheffield: JSOT, 1986. Gager, John G. Kingdom and Community: The Social World of Early Christianity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 1975. [early Christianity as a millenarian movement] Giblin, Charles Homer. The Book of Revelation. The Open Book of Prophecy. Collegeville: M. Glazier, c. 1991. Giblin, C. H. "Recapitulation and the Literary Coherence of John's Apocalypse." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 56/1 (1994): 81-95. Giblin, C. H. "Structure and Thematic Correlations in the Theology of Revelation." Biblica 55 (1974): 487-504. Giet, S. L'Apocalypse et l'histoire. Paris, 1957. Gouldner, M. D. "The Apocalypse as an Annual Cycle of Prophecies." New Testament Studies 27 (1980-81): 342-67. Gunkel, Hermann. Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1895. Hanson, K. C. "Blood and Purity in Leviticus and Revelation." Listening. Journal of Religion and Culture 28/3 (1993): 215-30. Hellholm, David. "The Problem of Apocalyptic Genre and the Apocalypse of John." Semeia 36 (1986): 13-64. Hemer, Colin. The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting. JSNTSup 11. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1986. Hill, David. "Prophecy and Prophets in the Revelation of St. John." New Testament Studies 18 (1971-72): 401-18. Holman, Charles L. Till Jesus Comes: Origins of Christian Apocalyptic Expectation. Peabody, M.A.: Hendrickson, 1996. Holtz, T. Die Christologie der Apokalypse des Johannnes. 2d ed. TU 85. Berlin: de Gruter, 1971. Hurtgen, John E. Anti-Language in the Apocalypse of John. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. Jenks, Gregory C. The Origins and Development of the Antichrist MYth. Berlin/ New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. Jeske, Richard L. "Spirit and Community in the Apocalypse." New Testament Studies 31 (1985): 452-66. Jeske, R. L. Revelation for Today: Images of Hope. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983. Jeske, Richard L. and Barr, David L. "The Study of the Apocalypse Today." Religious Studies Review 14 (1988): 337-44. Jörns, K.-P. Das hymnische Evangelium. SNT 5. Gütersloh, 1971. Jones, B. W. "More about the Apocalypse as Apocalyptic." Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (1968): 325-27. Kallas, James. "The Apocalypse--An Apocalyptic Book?" Journal of Biblical Literature 86 (1967): 69-80. Kamlah, W. Apokalyptik und Geschichtstheologie. Die mittelalterliche Auslegung vor Joachim von Fiore. 1935. Klassen, W. "Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 28 (1966): 300-311. Kraft, Heinrich. Die Offenbarung Johannes. Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, 16a. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 1974. Kraybill, J. Nelson. Imperial Cult and Commerce in John's Apocalypse. JSNt Sup. series 132. Sheffield, ca. 1995, 1996. Krodel, Gerhard A. Revelation. Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1989. Laconi, M. "Le Lettere di Giovani alle Chiese dell'Asia." Sacra Doctrina 26 (1981): 149-72. Ladd, George E. The Revelation of John. Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans, 1979. Lambrecht, J., ed. L'Apocalypse Johannique et l' Apocalyptique dans le Nouveau Testament. Gembloux, Belgium: Louvain University Press, 1980. Lambrecht, J. "The Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic in the New Testament." Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense XXX (August 28-30, 1979). Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniensis 55 (1979) 391-97. Laeuchli, S. "Eine Gottesdienststruktur in der Johannes-offenbarung." Theologische Zeitschrift 16 (1960) 359ff. Lehmann-Nitsche, Robert. "Der apokalyptische Drache: Eine astral-mythologische Untersuchung über Apoc. Joh. 12." Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 65 (1934): 193-230. Lietaert Peerbolte, L. J. The Anticedents of Antichrist. A Traditio-Historical Study of the Earliest Christian Views on Eschatological Opponents. Journal for the Study of Judaism Suppl. 49. Leiden: Brill, 1996. Linton, Gregory. "Reading the Apocalypse as an Apocalypse." In SBL Seminar Papers 1991. Ed. Eugene H. Lovering, Jr. Atlatna: Scholars Press, 1991. Pp. 161-86. Lipinski, J. "L'Apocalypse et le martyre de Jean Jerusalem." Novum Testamentum 11 (1969) 225ff. Listening. Journal of Religion and Culture. "The Apocalypse of John in Social-Scientific Perspective." Vol. 28, No. 3. Fall, 1993. Lohmeyer, E. Die Offenbarung des Johannes. 3. Aufl. HNT, 16. Tübingen: Mohr, 1970. McKay, W. M. "Another Look at the Nicolaitans." Evangelical Quarterly 45 (1973): 111-15. Macro, A. D. "The Cities of Asia Minor under the Roman Imperium." in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Ed. H. Temporini. New York/Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1980. Pp. 658-97. McGinn, Bernard. Antichrist. Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil. San Francisco: HarperSanFRancisco, 1994. M Malina, Bruce J. "The Book of Religion and Religion: How Did the Book of Revelation Persuade." Scriptura 51 (1994): 27-50. Malina, Bruce J. On the Genre and Message of Revelation. Star Visions and Sky Journeys. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995. McGinn, Bernard. "Introduction: John's Apocalypse and the Apocalyptic Mentality." In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univeristy Press, 1992. Pp. 3-19. McGinn, B. "Revelation." In The Literary Guide to the Bible. Ed. R. Alter and F. Kermode. Cambridge MA, 1987. Pp. 523-41. Malina, Bruce J. "`Apocalyptic' and Territoriality." In Early Christianity in Context. Monuments and Documents. Ed. F. Manns and E. Alliata. Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Maior 38. Jerusalem" Franciscan Printing Press, 1993. Pp. 369-80 Malina, Bruce J. "The Book of Revelation and Religion: How Did the Book of Revelation Persuade?" Scriptura 51 (1994): 27-50. Malina, Bruce J. Star Visions and Sky Journeys: A Reader's Guide to the Book of Revelation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995. Metzger, Bruce M. Breaking the Code. Understanding the Book of Revelation. Louisville: Westminster-Knox, 1993. Minear, Paul. I Saw a New Earth: An Introduction to the Visions of the Apocalypse. Foreword by M. Bourke. Washington, DC: Corpus Books, 1968. Minear, Paul. Ontology and Ecclesiology in the Apocalypse." New Testament Studies 12 (1955-56): 89-105. Minear, Paul. "The Wounded Beast." Journal of Biblical Literature 72 (1953): 93-101. Moore, Michael S. "Jesus Christ: `Superstar' (Revelation xxii 16b)." Novum Testamentum 24 (1982): 82-91. Mowrey, Lucretia. ""Revelation 4-5 and Early Christian Liturgical Usage." Journal of Biblical Literature 71 (1952): 75-84. Müller, U.B. Messias und Menschensohn in jüdischen Apokalypsen und in der Offenbarung Johannes. SNT 6. Gütersloh, 1972. Munck, J. Petrus und Paulus in der Offenbarung Johannes. Copenhagen: Rosenkelde & Bagger, 1950. Mussies, G. The Morphology of Koine Greek as Used in the Apocalypse of John. NovTSup 27. Leiden: Brill, 1971. Mwombeki, Fidon R. "The Book of Revelation in Africa." Word and World 15 (1995): 145-50. Neuss, W. Die Apokalypse des heilgen Johannes in der altspanischen und altchristlichen Bibelillustrationen. 1931. Newman, B. "The Fallacy of the Domitian Hypothesis: Critique of the Irenaeus Source as a Witness for the Contemporary-historical Approach to the Interpretation of the Apocalypse." New Testament Studies 10 (1963-64) 133-39. Nikolainen, A. T. "Über die theologische Eigenart der Offenbarung des Johannes. Theologische Literaturzeitung 93 (1968): 162-70. Oakman, Douglas E. "The Ancient Economy and St. John's Apocalypse." Listening. Journal of Religion and Culture 28/3 (1993): 200-214. O'Leary, Stephen D. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millenial Rhetoric. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pilch, John J. "Lying and Decit in the Letters to the Seven Churches. Perspectives from Cultural Anthropology." Biblical Theology Bulletin 22/3 (1992): 126-35. Pilch, John J. "Visions in Revelation and Alternate Consciousness" A Perspective from Cultural Anthropology." Listening. Journal of Religion and Culture 28/3 (1993): 231-44. Pilch, John J. What are they saying about the Book of Revelation? New York: Paulist, 1978. Piper, O. A. "The Apocalypse of John and the Liturgy of the Ancient Church." Church History 20 (1951) 255-66. Piper, O. A., R. Feldhuse, and W. Werbeck. "Johannesapokalypse." Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 3d ed. 3 (1959): 822-36. Prévost, Jean-Pierre. How to Read the Apocalypse. New York: Crossroad, 1993. Price, S.R.F. Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. Prigent, Pierre. "L'Apocalypse et Liturgie." Cahiers théologiques 52 (1964) 7-81. Prigent, Pierre. L'Apocalypse de Saint Jean. 2d ed. 1981. Prigent, Pierre. "L'hérésie Asiatique et l'église confessante de l'Apocalypse à Ignace." Vigiliae Christianae 31 (1977): 1-22. Quispel, Gilles. The Secret Book of Revelation: The Last Book of the Bible. New YOrk: McGraw-Hill, 1979. Ramsay, William M. The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia and Their Place in the Plan of the Apocalypse. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1904; reprinted, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979. Richard, Pablo. Apocalypse. A People's Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 199? Rissi, M. The Future of the World: An Exegetical Study of Rev 19:11-22:15. London: SCM Press, 1966. Rissi, M. "The Kerygma of the Revelation of John." Interpretation 22 (1968): 3-17. Rissi, M. "The Rider on the White Horse: A Study of Revelation 6:1-8." Interpretation 18 (1964): 403-18. Roloff, Jürgen. Revelation. A Continental Commentary. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993. ET of Die Offenbarung des Johannes. 2. ed. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1984, 1987. Rowland, Christoper. The Open Heaven. A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Christianity. New York: Crossroad, 1982. Ch. 14. "Revelation." Pp. 403-41. Ruiz, Jean-Pierre. "Betwixt and Between on the Lord's Day: Liturgy and the Apocalypse." SBL 1992 Seminar Papers. Ed. Eugene H. Lovering, Jr. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. Pp. 654-72. Russell, J. B. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. Russell, J. B. Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. Russell, J. B. Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World. Itaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986. Russell, J. B. Satan: The Early Christian Tradition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981. Sanders, J. N. "St. John on Patmos." New Testament Studies 9 (1962-63): 75-85. Satake, Akira. Die Gemeindeordnung in der Johannesapokalypse. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner, 1966. Scherrer, S. J. "Revelation 13 as an Historical Source for the Imperial Cult under Domitian." Harvard Theological Review 74 (1981) ca. 406. Scherrer, Steven J. "Signs and Wonders in the Imperial Cult." Journal of Biblical Literature 103 (1984): 599-610. Schmid, J. Studien zur Geschichte des griechischen Apokalypse Textes. 3 vols. Munich, 1955-56. Schroeder, Joy A. "Revelation 12: Female Figures and Figures of Evil." Word and World 15 (1995): 175-81. Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. The Apocalypse. Herald Biblical Booklets. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1976. ----. "Apocalyptic and Gnosis in Revelation and Paul." Reprinted in The Book of Revelation, pp. 114-32. ----. "Apokalypsis and Propheteia: The Book of Revelation in the Context of Early Christian Prophecy." In L'Apocalypse Johannique et l' Apocalyptique dans le Nouveau Testament. Ed. J. Lambrecht. Gembloux, Belgium: Louvain University Press, 1980. Pp. 105-28. Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. Pp. 159-80 on the history of scholarship. ----. "The Eschatology and Composition of the Apocalypse." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 30 (1968) 537ff. ----. "Followers of the Lamb: Visionary Rhetoric and Social-Political Situation." In Discipleship in the New Testament. Ed. Fernando F. Segovia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. Pp. 144-65. Also published as Ch. 7. in The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. ----.Invitation to the Book of Revelation. A Commentary on the Apocalypse with the complete text from the Jerusalem Bible. Garden City: Image Books, 1981. ----. Priester für Gott; Studien zum Herrschafts- und Priestermotiv in der Apokalypse. Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen, n.f. Band. 7. Münster: Aschendorff, 1972. ----. "The Quest for the Johannine School: The Apocalypse and the Fourth Gospel." New Testament Studies 23 (1977) 402-27. Reprinted in The Book of Revelation, pp. 85-113. ----. Revelation. Vision of a Just World. Proclamation Commentaries. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991. Revision of Invitation to the Book of Revelation. Garden City: Image Books, 1981. Schütz, R. Die Offenbarung des Johannes und Kaiser Domitian. FRLANT, n.f. 32 (50). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1933. Scobie, Charles H. H. "Local References in the Letters to the Seven Chruches." New Testament Studies 39 (1993): 606-24. Segal, A. Two Powers in Heaven. SJLA 25. Leiden: Brill, 1977. Smith, M. "On the History of APOKALYPTO and APOKALYPSIS." In Hellholm, ed 1983. Pp. 9-20. Smith, Robert H. "Why John Wrote the Apocalypse (Rev 1:9). Currents in Theology and Mission 22 (1995): 356-61. Stonehouse, N. B. The Apocalypse in the Ancient Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1929. Swete, H. The Apocalypse of St. John. 3d ed. London, 1909. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1951. Swete, J. P. M. Revelation. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1979. Thompson, Leonard L. The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Thompson, Leonard L. "Cult and Eschatology in the Apocalypse of John." Journal of Religion 49 (1969): 330-50. Thompson, Leonard L. "Mooring the Revelation in the Mediterranean." SBL 1992 Seminar Papers. Ed. Eugene H. Lovering, Jr. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. Pp. 635-53. Thompson, Leonard L. "A Sociological Analysis of Tribulation in the Apocalypse of John." In Early Christian Apocalypticism. Ed. A. Yarbro Collins. Semeia 36. Decatur, GA: Scholars Press, 1986. Pp. 147-74. Trites, A. "Martus and Martyrdom in the Apocalypse." Novum Testamentum 15 (1973): 72-80. Vanni, Ugo. L'Apocalisse. Ermeneutica, esegesi, teologia. Bologna: EDB, 1988. Vanni, Ugo. "The Apocalypse and the Gospel of Luke." In Luke and Acts. Ed. Gerald O'Collins and Gilberto Marconi. New York: Paulist Press, 1993. Pp. 9-25. Vanni, Ugo. "Liturgical Dialogue as a Literary Form in the Book of Revelation." NTS 37 (1991): 348-72. Vanni, Ugo. La struttura letteraria dell'Apocalisse. Brescia: Morcelliana, 1980. Wainwright, Arthur W. Mysterious Apocalypse: Interpreting the Book of Revelation. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993. (History of Interpretations of the Apocalypse). Whealon, John F. "New Patches on an Old Garment: The Book of Revelation." Biblical Theology Bulletin 11 (1981): 54-59. Wilson, J. Christian. "The Problem of the Domitianic Date of Revelation." New Testament Studies 39 (1993): 587-605. [Favors date of June 68-January 69 or 64-65 CE] Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "Apocalyptic Themes in Biblical Literature. Interpretation 53/2 (1999): 117-130. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. The Apocalypse. New Testament Message, 22. Michael Glazier, 1979. Yarbro Collins, Adela. The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation. HDR 9. Missoula: Scholars Press, 1976. Yarbro- Collins, Adela. Crisis and Catharis: The Power of the Apocalypse. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "The Early Christian Apocalypses." Semeia 14 (1979): 61-121. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "The History-of-Religions Approach to Apocalypticism and the `Angle of the Waters' (Rev 16:4-7." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 39 (1977): 367-81. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "Insiders and Outsiders in the Book of Revelation and Its Social Context." In "To See Ourselves as Others See Us." Christians, Jews, "Others," in Late Antiquity. Ed. J. Neusner and E.S. Frerichs. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985. Pp. 187-218. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "Introduction: Early Christian Apocalypses." Semeia 36 (1986): 1-11. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "The Political Perspective of the Revelation to John." Journal of Biblical Literature 96 (1977) 241-256. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "Revelation." in The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Ed. R. E. Brown, J. A. Fitzmyer, and R. R. Murphy. Englewood Cliffs: Prenctice-Hall. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "The Revelation of John: An Apocalyptic Response to a Social Crisis." Currents in Theology and Mission 8 (1981) 4-12. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "Revelation, Book of." ABD 5 1992): 694-708. Yarbro-Collins, Adela. "Women's History and the Book of Revelation." In SBL 1987 Seminar Papers. Ed. Kent H. Richards. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987. Pp. 80-91. Yarbro-Collins, Adela, ed. Early Christian Apocalypticism: Genre and Social Setting. Semeia 36. Decatgur, GA: Schoalrs Press, 1986.
2. Jewish and Old Testament Apocalyptic Literature (Texts and Studies)
Charles, R. H., ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.
Charlesworth, James, ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Vol. 1. Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983.
Esler, Philip. F. "Political Oppression in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature: A Social-Scientific Approach." Listening: JOurnal of Religion and Culture 28 (1993):
3. "Apocalypse" as a Genre; "Apocalyptic; "Apocalypticism;" Israelite
Apocalyptic Writings; Ancient Millennarianism (Millennialism, Chiliasm)
Allison, Dale C. The End of the Ages Has Come. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
Allison, Dale C. Jesus of Nazareth. Millenarian Propphet. Minneapolis: Fortess, 1998.
Barker, Margaret. "Slippery Words III. Apocalyptic." Expository Times 89/1 (1978): 324-29.
Barrett, C. K. "Apocalyptic." The New Testament Background: Selected Documents. Rev. ed. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1989. Pp. 316-49. Baumgarten, Jörg. Paulus und die Apokalyptik. Die Auslegung apokalyptischer Überlieferungen in den echten Paulusbriefe. WMANT 44. Neukirchen-Vlun: Neukirchner, 1975. Baur, F. C. Das Christentum und die christliche Kirche der drei ersten Jahrhunderte. 2. neu durchgearbeitete Ausgabe. Tübingen: L. Fr. Fues, 1860. Beardslee, W. A. "New Testament Apocalyptic in Recent Interpretation." Interpretation 25/4 (1971): 419-35. Becker, Jürgen. "Erwägungen zur apokalyptischen Tradition in der paulinischen Theologie." Evangelische Theologie 30/11 (1970): 593-609. Contests E. Käsemann's theory that apocalyptic is the mother of Christian theology. Beyerle, Stepfan. "Die Wiederentdeckung der Apokalyptik in den Schriften Altisraels und des Frühchristentums. Verkündigung und Forschung 43/2 (1998): 34-59. Bible Today, The (Journal) 23 (1985) and 24 (1986) Bloom, Harold. "Apocalypse Then." New York Review of Books 30/21-22 (1-19-84): 25-26, 31-33. Braaten, C.E. "The Significance of Apocalypticism for Systematic Theology." Interpretation 25/4 (1971): 480-99. Buber, Martin. "Prophecy, Apocalyptic, and the Historical Hour." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 11-12 (1957): 9-21. Collins, John J. Apocalypse. The Morphology of a Genre. Semeia 14. Missoula, MT.: Scholars Press, 1979. Collins, John J. "Apocalyptic Eschatology as the Transcendence of Death." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 36/1 (1974): 21-43. Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination. An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity. New York: Crossroad, 1984. Collins, John J. "The Apocalyptic Function: Setting and Function in the Watchers." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 44/1 (1982): 91-111. Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Vision of the Book of Daniel. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1977. Collins, John J. "Cosmos and Salvation: Jewish Wisdom and Apocalyptic in the Hellenistic Age." History of Religions 17/2 (1977): 121-42. Collins, John J. Daniel, With an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature. The Forms of the O.T. Literature, 20. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984. Collins, John J. "Early Jewish Apocalypticism." Anchor Bible Dictionary 1 (1992): 282-88. Collins, J. "Symposium: Apocalyptic Symbolism and Social Reality." Biblical Research 26 (1981) 4-45. Crips, Peter G. "Western and Chinese Eschatologies: Challenging Postmodernist Theory." Mosaic (Winnipeg) 26 (1993): 1-20. Essays on Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Meeting of the New Testament Society of South Africa, 1978. Neotestamentica 12. Bloomfontein: University of Orange Free State, 1978. Funk, Robert W., ed. Apocalypticism. Journal for Theology and the Church, vol. 6. New York: Herder and Herder, 1969. Goppelt, Leonhard. "Apokalyptik und Typologie bei Paulus." Theologische Literaturzeitung 89/5 (1965): 321-44. Grabbe, Lester L. "The Social Setting of Early Jewish Apocalypticism." Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 4 (1989): 27-47. Grayson A. Kirk. "Akkadian `Apocalyptic' Literature." Anchor Bible Dictionary 1 (1992): 282. Gruenwald, Ithamar. Apocalyptic and Merkavan Mysticism. AGAJU 14. Leiden: Brill, 1980. Gruenwald, Ithamar. "Jewish Apocalypticism to the Rabbinic Period." Encyclopedia of Religion 1 (1987): 336-42. Gunkel, Hermann. Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1895. Hanson, Paul D. "Apocalypses and Apocalypticism." Anchor Bible Dictionary 1 (1992): 279-92. Hanson, Paul D. "Apocalypse, Genre." Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Supplement Vol. Nashville: Abingdon, 1976. Pp. 27-28. Hanson, Paul D. "Apocalypticism." Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Supplement Vol. Nashville: Abingdon, 1976. Pp. 28-34. Hanson, Paul D. The Dawn of Apocalyptic. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1975. Hanson, Paul D. "Jewish Apocalyptic against Its Near Eastern Environment." Revue Biblique 78 (1963): 31-58. Hanson, Paul D. Old Testament Apocalyptic. Nashville: Abingdon, 1987. Hanson Paul D. "Old Testament Apocalyptic Reexamined." Interpretation 25/4 (1971): 454-79. Hanson, Paul D., ed. Visionaries and their Apocalypses. IRT 2. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983. Hanson, Paul D., Grayson, A. Kirk, Collins, John J., Yarbro- Collins, Adela. "Apocalypses and Apocalypticism." Anchor Dictionary of the Bible 1 (1992): 279-92 Hellholm, David, ed. Apocalypticism in the Mediterranean World and the Near East. Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1983. Himmelfarb, Martha. "Apocalyptic Ascent and the Heavenly Temple." In SBL 1987 Seminar Papers. Ed. Kent H. Richards. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987. Pp. 210-17. Himmelfarb, M. Tours of Hell: An Apocalypic Form in Jewish and Christian LIterature. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983. Himmelfarb, M. Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983. Isenberg, Sheldon R. "Millenarism in Greco-Roman Palestine." Religion 4 (1974): 26-46. Interpretation (journal) 25/4 (1971) on theme of apocalyptic. Articles by W. Beardslee, A. Wilder, P. Hanson, C. Braaten. Julius Africanus. Chronographiai (221 C.E.) [first chronology from a Christian perspective; 5000 years from Creation to Babylonian exile and another 500 years to birth of Jesus Christ so that the millennium would begin in 500 CE.] Käsemann, Ernst. "On New Testament Apocalyptic." In New Testament Questions of Today. London: SCM, 1959. Pp. 108-138. Koch, Klaus. The Rediscovery of Apocalyptic. SBT, 2d. series. 22. 1970. Kvanvig, Helge S. "The Relevance of the Biblical Visions of the End Time: Hermenutical Guidelines to the Apocalyptic Literature." Horizons of Biblical Theology 11 (1989): 35-58. Kvanvig, Helge S. Roots of Apocalyptic: The Mesopotamian Background of the Enoch Figure and of the Son of Man. WMANT 61. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner Verlag, 1988. Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones [ six ages of 1,000 years each constitute human history] Ladd, George Eldon. "The Place of Apocalyptic in Biblical Religion." Evangelical Quarterly 30 (1958): 75-85. Landes, Richard. "Lest the Mellenium Be Fufilled: Apocalyptic Expectations and the Petttern of Western Chronology 100-800 CE." In The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages. Ed. Werner Verbeke, Daniel Verhelst, and Andries Welkenhuysen. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia I/15. Louvain: Louvain Univerity Press, 1988. Pp. 137-211. Lampe. Peter. "Die Apokalyptiker--ihre Situation und ihr Handlung." In Eschatologie und Friedenshandeln. Exegetische Beiträge zur Frage christliches Friedensverantwortung. Ed. Ulrich Luz et. al. Pp. 59-114. Lebram, J. "Apokalyptik/Apokalypsen II. Altes Testament." Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE) 3 (1978): 192-202. Malina, Bruce J. "`Apocalyptic' and Territoriality." In Early Christianity in Context. Monuments and Documents. Ed. F. Manns and E. Alliata. Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Collectio Maior 38. Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1993. Pp. 369-80. McGinn, Bernard. Apocalypticism in the Western Tradition. McGinn, B. Apocalyptic Spirituality. Classics of Western Spirituality. New YOrk: Paulist Press, 1979. McGinn, Bernard. "Early Apocalypticism: The Ongoing Debate." In The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature. Ed. C. A. Patrides and Joseph Wittreich. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. Pp. 2-39. McGinn, Bernard. Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Martin, Gerhard Marcel. Weltuntergang. Gefahr und Sin apokalyptischer Visionen. Suttgart: Kreuz Verlag, 1984. Meeks, Wayne A. "Social Functions of Apocalyptic Language in Pauline Christianity." In Hellholm 1983. Pp. 687-705. Moore, Hamilton. "The Problem of Apocalyptic as Evidence in Recent Discussion." Irish Biblical Studies 8 (1986): 76-91. Nickelsburg, George W. E. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981. Perrin, Norman. "Apocalyptic Christianity. " In The New Testament--An Introduction. New York. 1974. Pp. 65-87. Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins 1969/70. Vol. 7. Oepke, A. "Kalyptô, kalymma, anakalyptô, katakalyptô, apokalyptô, apokalypsis." Theologicial Dictionary of the New Testament 3 (1965): 557-92. Osten-Sacken, P. von der. Die Apokalyptik in ihrem Verhältnis zu Prophetie und Weisheit. Theologische Existenz heute 157. Munich: Kaiser, 1969. Reddisch, M. G. Apocalyptic Literature. A Reader. Nashville: Abingdon, 1990. Rist, M. "Apocalypticism." Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 1962. Pp. 157-61. Rössler, Dietrich. Gesetz und Geschichte.Untersuchungen zur Theologie der jüdishcen Apokalyptik und der pharisäischen Orthodoxie. WMANT 3. Neukirchen: Neukirchner, 1960. Rollins, Wayne. "The New Testament and Apocalyptic. " New Testament Studies 17 (1971): 454-76. Contests Käsemann. Rowland, Christoper. The Open Heaven. A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Christianity. New York: Crossroad, 1982. Russell, D. S. The Method and Message of Jewish Apocalyptic 200 BC-AD 100. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1964. Saldarini, Anthon J. "Apocalypses and `Apocalyptic' in Rabbinic Literature and Mysticism." Semeia 14 (1979): 187-205. Saldarini, Anthony J. "The Uses of Apocalyptic in the Mishna and Tosephta." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 39/3 (1977): 396-409. Schmidt, J. M. "Forschung zur jüdischen Apokalyptik." Verkündigung und Forschung 14 (1969): 44-69. Schmidt, J. M. Die jüdische Apokalyptik. Die Geschichte ihrer Erforschung von den Anfängen bis zu den Testfunden von Qumran. Neukirchen/Vluyn: Neukirchner, 1969. Schmidthals, Walter. The Apocalyptic Movement: Introduction and Interpretation. Nashville: Abingdon, 1974. Segal, Alan F. "Heavenly Ascent in Hellensistic Judaism, Early Christianity and their Environment." Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.23.2 1980. Pp. 1334-1394. Semeia 14 (1979) Entire issue of journal Semeia 36 (1986) Entire issue of journal Slater, Thomas B. "On the Social Setting of the Revelation to John." New Testament Studies 44 (1998): 232-256. [concurs with Thompson and Elliott on Domitian's non-persection of Christianity in Asia Minor] Sleeper, C. Freeman. The Victorious Christ. A Study of the Book of Revelation. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1996. Smith, Morton. "On the History of Apokalyptô and Apokalypsis." In Hellholm, David, ed. Apocalypticism in the Mediterranean World and the Near East. Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1983. Pp. 9-20. Stone, Michael. "Apocalyptic Literature." In Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period. Ed. Michael E. Stone. CRINT 2.2 Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984. Pp. 383-441. Strobel, August. Kerygma und Apokalyptik. Ein religionsgeschichtlicher und theologischer Beitrag zur Christusfrage. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967. Theissen, Gerd. "JesusProphet einer millenaristischen Bewegung? Sozialgeschichtliche Überlegungen zu einer sozialanthropologischen Deutung der Jesusbewegung. Evangelische Theologie 59/6 (1999): 402-415. Theissen, G. The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity. Edited and translated with an introduction by J. H. Schütz. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982. Vawter, Bruce. "Apocalyptic--Its Relation to Prophecy." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 22 (1960): 33-46. Vielhauer, Philipp. "Apocalypses and Related Subjects." In New Testament Apocrypha. Ed. E. Hennecke and W. Schneemelcher. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1965. Pp. 581-607. Wilder, Amos. "The Rhetoric of Ancient and Modern Apocalyptic." Interpretation 25/4 (1971): 436-53. Worsley, Peter. The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of `Cargo' Cults in Melanesia. London. 19957. Yarbro Collins, Adela; Collins, John J.; and Hanson, Paul D. "Apocalypses and Apocalypticism." Anchor Bible Dictionary 1 (1992): 280-92. Yarbro Collins, Adela. "Early Christin Apocalyptic Literature." Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.25.6 (1988): 4665-4711. Yarbro Collins, Adela. "Early Christian [Apocalypticism]." Anchor Bible Dictionary 1 (1992): 288-92. Yarbro Collins, Adela. "The Book of Revelation." Anchor Bible Dictionary 5 (1992): 694-708. Yarbro Collins, Adela, ed. Early Christian Apocalypticism. Semeia 36. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1986.
4. Astronomy, Astrology, Cosmology; Numerology in Apocalyptic Texts
Allen, Richard Hinckley. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning. New York: Dover, 1963 (1899). "Astrology." Encyclopedia Judaica. Vol. 3. Jerusalem: Keter, 1971. Cols. 788-95. "Astronomy." Encyclopedia Judaica. Vol. 3. Jerusalem: Keter, 1971. Cols. 795-807. Barton, T. Ancient Astronomy. Science of Antiquity. New York: Routledge, 1994. [excellent historical and social survey] Beskow, Per et al. "Astrologie." Theologische Realenzyklopädie 4 (1979): 277-315. Black, Jeremy and Gree, Anthony. Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Illus. Tessa Richards. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Boll, Franz. Sphraera: Neue gricheische Texte und Untersuchungen zur Gesichte der Sternbilder. Hildesheim: Goerg Olms, 1967; reprint of 1903. Boll, Franz. Sternglaube und Sterndeutung: Die Geschichte und das Wesen der Astrologie. 2d ed. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1991. Boll, Franz. Storia del Astrologia. Bari: Laterze, 1977. Budge, E. A. Wallis. Amulets and Superstitions. New York: Dover, 1978 (1930). (Zodiac, astrology, stones of planets, numbers and mystic properties) Campion, Nicholas. The Practical Astrologer. Abrams, 1987. Carmignac. Jean. "Les Horoscopes de Qumrân." Revue de Qumran 5 (1965): 199-217. Charlesworth, James H. "Jewish Astrology in the Talmud, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Early Palestinian Synagogues." Harvard Theological Review 70 (1977): 183-200. Charlesworth, James H. "Jewish Interest in Astrology during the Hellensitic and Roman Period." Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. 2.20.2. 1987. Pp. 926-950. Cramer, Frederic H. Astrology in Roman Law and Politics. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 37. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1954. Cumont, Franz. Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans. New YOrk: Dover, 1960 (1912). Cumont, Franz. "Zodiacus." Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines. Ed. C, Darembert and Saglio, E. Paris: Hachette, 1991. Pp. 1046-62. De Mailly Nesle, Solange. Die Astronomie: Von der Sterndeutung zum Horskop. Trans. Antoinette Gittinger. Munich: Calwey, 1987. (A Picture book translated from the French, L' Astrologie. Paris: Editions Fernand Nathan, 1981.) De Martino, Ernesto. La fine del mondo: cont ributo all'anaisi delle apocalissi culturali. Ed. Clara Gallina. Turin: G. Enaudi Editore, 1977. Del Corno, D. "Isogni e la loro interpretazione nell'età dell'imperio." Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. 2.16.2. 1978. Pp. 1605-1618. Dornseiff, Franz. Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie, STOICHEIA, Studien zur Geschichte des antiken Weltbildes und der griechen Wissenschaft. Vol. 7. 2d ed. Filbey, John and Peter. The Astrologer's Companion. Newcastle Publ., 1986. Firmicus Maternus. Ancient Astrology, Theory and Practice (Matheseos Libri VIII). Trans. Jean Rys Bram. Ridge Park, NJ: Noyes Press, 1975. Gettings, Fred. Dictionary of Astrology. Methuen, 1985. Gundel, Hans Georg. "Zodiakos." Der Kleine Pauly 5 (1979): 1541-48. Gundel, Wilhelm. "Astrologie." Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum 1 (1950): 817-31. Gundel, Wilhelm. "Astronomie." Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum 1 (1950): 831-36. Gundel, Wilhelm. Dekane und Dekansternbilder. Ein Beitrag zur Geshichte der Sternbilder der Kulturvölker, mit einer Untersuchung über die ägyptischen Sternbilder und Gottheiten der Dekane von S. Schott. Studien der Bibliothek Warburg, XIX. Gluckstadt and Hamburg: J. J. Augustin, 1936. Gundel, Wilhelm. "Dekane." Pauly-Wissowa. Supplement Vol. 7. Cols. 116-24. Gundel, Wilhelm. Sternglaube, Sternreligion und Sternorakel. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1933. Hanson, John S. "Dreams and Visions in the Graceo-Roman World and Early Christianity." Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. 2.23.2. 1980. Pp. 1395-1427. Hetherington, N., ed. Encyclopedia of Cosmology. ca. 2000 Hübner, Wolfgang. Zodiacus Christianus. Jüdisch-Christliche Adoptionen des Tierkreises von der Antike bis zu Gegenwart. Beiträge zur klassichen Philologie 144. Königstein (Czechoslovakia): Hain, 1983. Johnston, Sarah Iles. "Riders in the Sky: Cavalier Gods and Theurgic Salvation in the Second Century A.D." Classical Philogy 87 (1992): 303-21. Le Boeffle, André. Astronomie, astrologie: Lexique latin. Paris: Picard, 1987. Le Boeffle, André. Les noms latins d'astres et de constellations. Paris: Belles Lettres, 1977. Nechepso-Petosiris. The Interpretation of Dreams and Portents. Ed. and transl by Naphtali Lewis. Srasota: Hakkert, 1976. MacMullen, Ramsey. "Social History in Astrology." Ancient Society 2 (1971): 105-16. Manilius. Astronomica. Trans. G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library. Cambrindge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. Malina, Bruce J. Star Visions ane Sky Journeys: A Reader's Guide to the Book of Revelation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, in press. Maunder, Edward Walter. The Astronomy of the Bible. An elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture. London, 1908; 4th ed. 1923/1935. Menninger, Karl. Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers. Trans. Paul Broneer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969. Neugebauer, Otto. "A Greek World Map." In Astronomy and History Selected Essays. New YOrk: Springer, 1983. Pp. 205-09. A reprint of A. Beer, Ed. Vistas in Astronomy. Vol. 1. London: Pergamon Press, 1955. Pp 47-51. Nock, Arthur Darby. "Astrology and Cultural History." In Essays on Religion and the Ancient World. Vol. 1. Ed. Zeph Stewart. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. 493-502. Norton, Arthur and Inglis, J. Gall. Norton's Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook. Cambridge, MA: Sky Publishing, 1966. Pingree, David E. "Astrology." Encyclopaedia Britannica 1. Pp. 219-23. Rochberg-Halton, Francesca. "Astrology in the Ancient Near East." Anchor Bible Dictionary 1 (1992): 504-07. Rochberg-Halton, Francesca. "Babylonian Horoscopes and their Sources." Orientalia 58 (1989): 102-23. Saler, Benson. "Supernatural as a Western Concept." Ethos 5 (1977): 31-53. Schulman Sandra. Geschichte der Astrologie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Eltville am Rhein: Rheingauer Verlagsgesellschaft, 1978. (Excellent picture book translated from English, London: Hamlyn Publ. Group, 1976). Scott, Alan. Origen and the Life of the Stars. A History of an Idea. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. Ulansey, David. The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. New Yor, 1989. Cf. Vermaseren, M. J., ed. Corpus Inscriptionem et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae. The Hague, 1956.
5. Studies on the Use and Influence of the Apocalypse of John in Western Cultural and Political History.
Bethea, David M. The Shape of the Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Broderick, Mick. "Apocalyptic Desire." Peace Review 8/2 (1996): 267-71. (Current films and TV). Chamberlin, E. R. Antichrist and the Millennium. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975. Christe, Yves, ed. L'Apocalypse de Jean: Traditions exègètiques et iconographiques. IIIe au XIIe siècles. Geneva, 1979. Clemen, C. "Die Stellung der Offenbarung Johannes im ältesten Urchristentum." Zeitschrift zur Neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft 26 (1927) 173-86. Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. New York: Warner, 1984 (original Italian, 1980). Eco, Umberto. "Waiting for the millennium." FMR 1/2 (1984): 63-92. Emmerson, R. K. and McGinn, B., eds. The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. Fredrikson, Paula. "Apocalypse and Redemption in Early Christianity." Vigiliae Christianae 45 (1991): 151-83. James, M. R. The Apocalypse in Art. 1931. Kretschmar, Georg. Die Offenbarung des Johannes. Die Geschichte ihrer Auslegung im 1. Jahrhundert. Calwer Theolgosiche Monographien 9. Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1985. McGinn, Bernard. "Symbols of the Apocalypse in Medieval Culture." In The Bible and Its Traditions. Ed. Michael Patrick O'Connor and David Noel Frieddman. Michigan Quarterly Review 22/3 (1983): 265-83. McGinn, Bernard, ed. Apocalyptic Spirituality. Treatises and Letters of Lactantius, Adso of Montier-en-Der, Joachim of Fiore, The Franciscan Spirituals, Savanarola. New York, Paulist, 1979. Patrides, C.A. and Wittreich, Joseph A. eds. The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. Placanica, Augusto. Segni dei tempi: il modello apocalittico mella tradizione occidental. Venezia: Marsilio Editoria, 1990. Rubinsky, Yuri and Wiseman, Ian. A History of the End of the World. New York: Quill, 1982. Stonehouse, N. B. The Apocalypse in the Ancient Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1929. Stringfellow, William. An Ethic for Christians and Others Aliens in a Strange Land. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1973.
6. Eschatology and Apocalyptic Views and Themes in Art, Literature, Music etc. in Modern Time (Literature, Fiction, Art, Music, Cinema, Science etc.); Eschatogical, End of the Age/End of the World Scenarios
Altizer, Thomas J. J. History as Apocalypse. Albany: State University of New York, 1985. Altizer, Thomas J. J. Oriental Mysticism and Biblical Eschatology. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1961 (ancient and modern apocalyptic). Baldwin, Robert F. The End of the World, A Catholic View. Huntington, In: Our Sunday Visitor, 1984. Barkun, Michael. Crucible of the Millennium. Barkun, Michael. Disaster and the Millennium. Barkun, Michael. "Divided Apocalypse: Thinking About the End in Contemporary America. Soundings 66/3 (1983): 251-280. Bethea, David M. The Shape of the Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Brown, Norman O. Apocalypse or Metamorphosis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. "The Apocalypse of Islam" (Sura 18), pp 69-87. Brown, Norman O. Love's Body. New York: Random House (Vintage), 1966. Bull, Malcolm, ed. Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995. [collection of essays] Cardinal, Ernesto. Apocalypse and Other Poems. New York: New Directions, 1977. Case, Shirley Jackson. The Millennial Hope. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1918. Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium. New York: Harper & Row, 1961. Cooper, David L. When God's Armies Meet the Almighty in the Land of Israel. Los Angeles: Biblical Research Society, 1940. Daniels, Ted, ed. "The Millennial Prophecy Report" (Philadelphia newsletter monitoring promotion of millennial religious views). Festinger, Louis et al. When Prophecy Fails. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Goodman, Mitchell, ed. The Movement Toward a New America. The Beginnings of a Long Revolution. Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970 (Collection of materials and essays). Gould, Stephen Jay. Questioning the Millennium. A Rationalist,s Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown. New York: Harmony Boolks/ Crown, 1997. [calendrics, astronomy, and history; millennarian expectations and groups through history; "Dousing Diminuative Dennis,s Debate (DDDD=2000).] Grant, James. The End of Things. London: Darton, 1866. Gumpert, Lynn. End of the World. Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse. Hayes, Harold, ed. Smiling Through the Apocalypse. Esquire's History of the Sixties. New York: Dell, 1971 (Collection of Essays). Hayes, Zachary. What are They Saying About the End of the World? New York: Paulist Press, 1983. Heller, Joseph. Closing Time. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1994 [a novel about the end of the world] Kermode, Frank. The Sense of an Ending. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 3-31. Körtner, Ulrich H. J. The End of the World: A Theological Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995. Paper. $30.00. Kreuziger, Frederick A. Apocalypse and Science Fiction: A Dialectic of religious and secular soteriologies. Chico: Scholars Press, 1982. McGinn, Bernard. Antichrist. Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil. McGinn, Bernard, ed. Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. McGinn, Bernard, ed. Visions of the End. Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, Martin, Gerhard Marcel. Weltuntergang. Gefahr und Sinn apocalyptischer Visionen. Stuttgart: Kreuz Verlag, 1984. May, John R. Toward a New Earth: Apocalypse in the American Novel. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,1972. Messick, David M. and Mackie, Daine M. The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages. Leuven (Louvain): University Press, 1988. Peters, Ted. Futures--Human and Divine. Atlanta: John Knox, 1973. O'Conner, Flannery. "Revelation." (A short story) O'Leary, Stephen. Arguing the Apocalypse. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Robinson, Douglas. American Apocalypses: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Rubinsky, Yuri and Wiseman, Ian. A History of the End of the World. New York: Quill, 1982. Scholem, G. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah. Princeton, 1973. Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West. Allen & Unwin, 1934. Stringfellow, William. An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1973. (Implications of the Apocalypse of John for today) Strug, Cordell. "Apocalypse. Now What? Apocalyptic Themes in Modern Movies." Word and World 15 (1995): 159-65. Talmon, Y. "Millenarism." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan, 1968. P. 349. Threshold of the Millennium: A Worldview Journal. (230 pages with artwork and brief tales) Vargas Llosa, Mario. The War of/at the End of the World. New York: Farrer Strauss Giroux, 1984. Verbeke, Werner, Daniel Verhelst, and Andries Welkenhuysen, eds. The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages. Leuven (Louvain): University Press, 1988. Wagner, W. Warren. Terminal Visions: The Literature of the Last Things. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1982.
Cinema/Films: "Apocalypse Now" (Francis Ford Coppola) "Catch Twenty-Two." (film and novel by Jospeh Heller) "The Dear Hunter" (Michael Cimini) "The Seventh Seal" (Ingmar Bergman) "The Seventh Sign"
7. Millennium Studies
Campion, Nicholas. The Great Year: Astronomy, Millennarianism and History in the Western Tradition. New York: Penguin, 1994. Dionysius Exiguus [Dennis the Dwarf], 6th cent. CE [chronology; Jesus, birth reckoned at December 25, 753 A.U.C. but then calander started again on January 1, 754 A.U.C., the feast of his circumcision on 8th day of life and coinciding with New Year,s day in Roman and Latin Christian calendars. This date, beginning January 1, then named year one, "Anno Domini. No knowledge of zero! Thus decades end with year 10, centuries end with 00, millennia, with 000 and new millennium starts with 1001, 2001, etc.] Foçillon, Henri. The Year 1000. F. Ungar, 1969. Gross, Michael. The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time. Quest Books, 1995. Thompson, Damian. The End of Time. Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium. Hanover & London: University Press of New England, 1996. Ussher, Archbishop James. Annales veteris testamenti a prima mundi origine deducti [The Annals of the Old Testament, Deduced from the First Origin of the World], 1650. [moment of creation was 4004 BC, at noon on October 23; Jesus born 4000 years later; 6000 years from Creation to Second Coming, which should have occurred on Oct. 23, 1996] Ritter, Adolf Martin. "Kirche und Theologie in der Erwartung des Jahres 1000. Evangelische Theologie 59/6 (1999): 416-425. Weber, Eugen. Apocalypses. Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
8. Modern Millennialist and Adventist Movements (Social, Ethnic, Religious) and Thought
Aukerman, Dale. Reckoning with Apocalypse. Terminal Politics and Christian Hope. New York: Crossroad, 1993. Barkun, Michael. "Divided Apocalypse: Thinking About the End in Contemporary America." Soundings 66/3 (1983): 257-80. Burridge, Kenelm. New Heaven, New Earth. A Study of Millenarian Activities. New York: Schocekn, 1969. Glieck, Elizabeth. "The Marker We've Been Waiting For." Time (April 7, 1997): 28-36. [On Heaven's Gate and Marshall Applewhite; report on suicides] LaHaye, Tim. The Beginning of the End. Wheaton, Il.:Tyndale House, 1972. LaHaye, Tim and Jenkins, Jerry B. Are We Living in the End Times? 1999 Lindsey, Hal. The Late Great Planet Earth. New York: Bantam, 1973 (best seller since 1970). Lindsey, Hal. The Last and Future World. Lindsey ,Hal. The Terminal Generation. Lofland, John. Doomsday Cult. Enlarged ed. New York: Irvington Publishers, 1977 (1966). Moorhead, James H. "Between Progress and Apocalypse: A Reassessment of Millenialism in American Religous Thought." Journal of American History 71/3 (1984): 534-42. Peters, Ted. Futures--Human and Divine. Atlanta: John Knox, 1978. Ch. 2. "Millennialist and Apocalyptic Perspectives." Pp. 28-49. Schwarz, Gary. Sect Ideologies and Social Status. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1970. (Seventh-day Adventist Belief, pp. 79-136, 211-29.) Strozier, Charles B. Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Tabor, James D. "Apocalypse at Waco: Could the Tragedy Have Been Averted? FBI Spurns Advice of Bible Scholars." Bible Review 9 (1993): 24-33. Tabor, James D. and Gallagher, J. Why Waco? Berkeley: University of California, 1995 [first-hand, critical description of Waco 1993 disaster]. See http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6679.html Thrupp, Sylvia L., ed. Millennial Dreams in Action. Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements. New York: Schocken, 1970. (17 essays from social-scientific and cross-cultural perspectives) Weber, Eugen. Apocalypses. Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Wilson, Bryan R. Magic and the Millennium. A Sociological Study of Religious Movements of Protest among Tribal and Third-World Peoples. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Woodward, Kenneth L. "The Way the World Ends. Newsweek 134/18 (11/1 1999): 69-74
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