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Bibliography for the Book of Revelation
More Than Conquerors, William Hendriksen, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids (1967)
Revelation (The New Century Bible Commentary), G. R. Beasley-Murray, Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publ. Co., Grand Rapids (1974)
Revelation (The International Critical Commentary), R. H. Charles, T. & T. Clark,
Edinburgh (1920), in two volumes
The Lion and the Lamb, John P. Newport, Broadman Press, Nashville (1986)
The Apocalypse of St. John, H. B. Swete, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids
(1906) This is still the best commentary on the Greek text of Revelation, but is out of print.
Worthy Is the Lamb, Ray Summers, Broadman Press, Nashville (1951)
The Revelation of St. John the Divine, G. B. Caird, Harper and Row Pubs., Inc., New
York (1966)
Revelation (Word Biblical Commentary, 52a, b, c), David Aune, Word Books,
Publisher. Dallas, Texas (1997 +)
Other Commentaries and Books Dealing with Revelation:
The Book of Revelation, The Expositor’s Bible, William Milligan, Hodder &
Stoughton, London (1909)
Christian Hope and the Second Coming, Paul S. Minear, Westminister Press,
Philadelphia (1954)
The Revelation of St. John the Divine, The Expositor’s Greek Testament Wm. B.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids (1951)
The Revelation of St. John the Divine, The Interpreter’s Bible, M. Rist, Abingdon
Press, New York (1957)
There’s a New World Coming, Hal Lindsay, Vision House, Santa Ana, California
(1973)
The Terminal Generation, Hal Lindsay, Fleming H. Revell, Old Tappan, New Jersey
(1970)
Prophecy for Today, J. Dwight Pentecost, Zondervan Pub. House, Grand Rapids
(1961)
Things To Come, J. Dwight Pentecost, Dunham, Findlay, Ohio (1959)
Revelation, Charles C. Ryrie, Moody Press, Chicago (1968)
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, John F. Walvoord, Moody Press, Chicago (1966)
The Revelation of John, C. R. Erdman, Westminster Press, Philadelphia (1936)
A Commentary of the Revelation of John, George E. Ladd, Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand
Rapids (1972)
The Hope of Glory, Dale Moody, Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids (1964)
The Revelation of St. John, The Tyndale New Testament Commentary, Leon
Morris, Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids (1969)
The Book of Revelation, New international Commentary, Robert H. Mounce, Wm. B.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids (1977)
Interpreting Revelation, Merrill C. Tenney, Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids (1957)
The Drama of the Book of Revelation, J. W. Bowman, Westminster Press,
Philadelphia (1955)
Vision at Patmos, Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez and Justo Luis Gonzalez, Cincinnati:
Women’s Division, Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church (1978)
The Revelation of St. John the Divine, Austin Farrer, Clarendon, Oxford (1964)
Revelation on Revelation: New Sounds From Old Symbols, Doublas Ezell, Word
Books, Waco (1977)
The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation, Ferrell Jenkins, Baker Book House,
Grand Rapids (1972)
Ancient Myths and Biblical Faith, Foster R. McCurley, Fortress Press, Philadelphia
(1983)
The Apocalypse. New Testament Message, volume 22, Adela Yarbro Collins,
Michael Glazier, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware (1979)
The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation, Adela Yarbro Collins, Scholars Press,
Missoula, Montana (1984)
Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of Apocalypse, Adela Yarbro Collins, Westminster
Press, Philadelphia (1984)
The Apocalypse, Herald Biblical Booklets, Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza,
Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago (1976)
The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment, Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza,
Fortress Press, Philadelphia (1985)
Invitation to the Book of Revelation, Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza, Image Books,
Garden City, NY (1981)
“Revelation”, Proclamation Commentaries, Ed. By Gerhard Krodel, Fortress Press,
Philadelphia (1977)
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land, William Stringfellow,
Word Books, Waco (1973)
Preaching Through the Apocalypse, Rogers & Jeter, Chalice Press, St. Louis,
Missouri (1992)
Revelation (The Anchor Bible), J. Massyngberde Ford
The Book of Revelation (The New International Commentary on the New
Testament), Robert H. Mounce
Apocalypse, Jacques Ellul, The Seabury Press, New York (1977)
For additional bibliography, see the list found in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, V, pp.
707-08, and especially the bibliography found on pp. 367-74 of Newport’s The Lion and the
Lamb, in which the various commentaries are grouped according to their basic viewpoint in
interpretation, whether:
The Preterist or Historical Background view;
The Amillennial or Realized Millennium view;
The Historicist or Continuous-Historical view;
The Postmillennial view;
The Eternal Theological Principles or Symbolical view;
The Extreme Futurist or Dispensationalist view;
The Moderate Futurist, Historical Premillennial or Covenant Premillennial view;
and other basic themes such as:
Dramatic Approach; General Overview; Historical Perspective; Liberation Approach;
Literary Nature; Psychological Approach; Relationship to the Jews and Israel;
Relationship to the Old Testament; and Sociological Approach
Notice the great variety of approaches that are possible in study and interpretation of
the Book of Revelation. None of these views has “a corner” on truth, and each viewpoint
should be respected, and studied for the fruits that it can give in study of this important portion
of the Biblical message!
Study Aids for the Book of Revelation in Greek
Introduction to New Testament Greek, Goodwin and McBrayer (1989)
New Testament Greek for Beginners, Machen, J. Gresham, The Macmillan Company,
Toronto, Canada, (1923)
Beginner’s Grammar of the Greek New Testament, W. H. Davis, Harper & Row, New
York, (1923)
Essentials of New Testament Greek, Ray Summers, Broadman Press, Nashville,
(1950)
Workbook for Essentials of New Testament Greek, Ray Summers (P. J. Bell), AMG
Publishers, Chattanooga, TN, (1983)
A Grammar for New Testament Greek, James M. Efird, Abingdon Press, Nashville
(1990)
Learn New Testament Greek, John H. Dobson, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids
(1993)
User-Friendly Greek, Kendell H. Easley, Broadman & Holman, Nashville (1994)
Intermediate New Testament Greek, Richard A. Young, Broadman & Holman,
Nashville (1994)
Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek, Metzger, Bruce M. (Princeton:
Theological Book Agency)
The Greek New Testament, edited by Aland, Black, Martini, Metzger, and Wikgren
(United Bible Societies, third edition or later)
Analytical Greek New Testament, edited by Barbara and Timothy Friberg, Grand
Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981
The Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised, Moulton, Harold K., Grand Rapids:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1978
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian
Literature (Walter Bauer's original German work, now edited by F. Wilbur Gingrich and
Frederick W. Danker, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979)
A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Bruce Metzger--United Bible
Societies, New York, 1971, 1975)
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (10 volumes--William B. Eerdman's
Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1964-1976), best worldwide, ecumenical
Greek philological scholarship. This series, edited by G. Kittel and G. Friedrich, along with its
companion series, Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, is indispensable for the
serious biblical student! We will be looking at many of the key theological terms found in the
Book of Revelation as discussed in this series.)
Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Brown, Driver, Briggs-Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1951--still the best one volume lexicon for the Hebrew
Bible, but badly in need of replacement. It will be of great value to us in our study of
Revelation as we seek to uncover the Hebrew words upon which John’s Greek words have
been based.)
Greek-English Lexicon Liddell & Scott, New Edition by Stuart Jones & McKenzie,
Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1843-1953 (This is the dictionary for Classical Greek, and
oftentimes very helpful in learning what lies behind a later Koine Greek word.)
Vocabulary of the Greek Testament Illustrated from the Papyri and Other NonLiterary Sources (Moulton & Milligan, Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, London, 1930, 1952-here we can find many parallels to New Testament Greek uncovered from the trash heaps in
Egypt, revealing Koine Greek to be the language of the merchants and soldiers of the first
century.)
Concordance to the Septuagint (Hatch and Redpath--Akademische Druck-U.
Verlagsanstalt, Graz, 1897, 1954--an analytical concordance for every word in the Greek
translation of the Hebrew Bible and the Apocrypha. Indispensable for serious study of the
background of New Testament Greek words found in the Septuagint, but now supplemented
by computer program Greek Bible programs that can do rapid word-searches.)
Concordance to the Greek Testament (W. F. Moulton, A.S. Geden, and H. K.
Moulton, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1897-1986--indispensable for the student of the Greek New
Testament, now being replaced by computer programs which can make rapid and accurate
word counts.)
Grammar of New Testament Greek (J. H. Moulton, 2 volumes, T. & T. Clark,
Edinburgh, 1908, 1929)
A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature
(Blass, Debrunner, Funk--University of Chicago Press, 1961)
Statistik Des Neutestamentlichen Wortschatzes (Robert Morgenthaler, GotthelfVerlag, Zuerich-Stuttgart, 1958, 1973)
Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon Press, New York, 1962--with
Supplementary Volume, 1976)
The Illustrated Bible Dictionary (3 volumes, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton,
Illinois, 1980, 1986--excellent source for pictures, maps, and articles on almost any biblical
subject, from a wide variety of world-wide scholarship, especially for information concerning
the “Seven Churches of Asia.”
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, James Charlesworth, editor--2 volumes-Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1983--indispensable for understanding the much larger
world of extra-biblical literature produced by the Jews prior to and following the writing of the
New Testament documents. Oftentimes these documents throw great light on materials found
in the New Testament. Volume 1 contains the “Apocalyptic Literature” section, including 1
Enoch, 2 Enoch, 3 Enoch, Sibylline Oracles, Treatise of Shem, Apocryphon of Ezekiel,
Apocalypse of Zephaniah, The Fourth Book of Ezra, Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, Vision of Ezra,
Questions of Ezra, Revelation of Ezra, Apocalypse of Sedrach, 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch,
Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Adam, Apocalypse of Elijah, and Apocalypse of
Daniel, a total of some 750 pages devoted to extra-biblical Apocalypses, with J. H.
Charlesworth’s introduction. It is our opinion that while all of this material is of great
importance for increasing our knowledge of the extra-biblical literature and culture, none
of these documents is of great importance for the interpretation of the Book of Revelation.
Would you like to challenge this conclusion? James Charlesworth would!
New Testament Apocrypha, Volume II, Writings Relating to the Apostles;
Apocalypses and Related Subjects, Edgar Hennecke, edited by Wilhelm Schneemelcher,
English translation of R. McL. Wilson, The Westminster Press, Philadelphia (1964). See
especially pages 579-804, where Apocalypses and Related Subjects are dealt with, including
“Apocalyptic in Early Christianity,” “Apocalyptic Prophecy of the Early Church,” and “Later
Apocalypses.” Here again, it is our judgment that while these documents cannot be summarily
dismissed, and have an importance of their own, they are of little value for interpreting and
understanding the Biblical Book of Revelation. But do not let this commentary’s conclusions
keep you from reading and evaluating this material!