Revelation commentaries
McKay family (music@fl.net.au)
Sat, 22 Nov 1997 18:02:45 +1100
22nd November, 1997
St Cecilia's Day [patron saint of music ... see sig]
We had a quiet, serious man as one of our lecturers when I was at college in
the late 70s. Frank Ewers was his name and he was well-versed in Hebrew and
Greek and had studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem [where the
lectures were in German]
He was warm, but not a joker. For our study of Revelation and eschatology,
he recommended 2 books:
Swete on Revelation and Sauer's book [Dawn of Wordl Redemption?]
Swete and Sauer!
Somehow it made it all the more fun that he was so serious the rest of the
time.
BTW, Steve Gregg's "Revelation: 4 views - a parallel commentary" is not a
serious volume on the Greek text, but it is an interesting book,
nonetheless, which puts the preterist, futurist, historicist and symbolic
views of the Apocalypse side by side. [In some places it gives 4 differing
views which do not fit with the above description.] Haven't read it all yet,
but a good reference book on differing interpretations. Great for your
friend who is convinced that there is only one way of looking at the book!
David McKay
music@fl.net.au