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Title: Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation: Leader's Guide by Bruce Manning Metzger ISBN: 0-687-08999-9 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Bible Study
Comment: A great Bible study guide, that's easily accessible for folks without a background in Bible history. Metger writes the historical and literary context in terms that any lay person can understand and interprets the book of Revelation in light of its historical context. A scholarly book that is easy to understand! It is recommended by a New Testament scholar to his seminary students for Bible study in a local church.
Rating: 5
Summary: very well done
Comment: i found this to be a very helpful and readable work. in his preface, mr metzger states that this book was intended primarily for nontheological readers; i think it is valuable to readers on any level. i believe that reading and teaching revelation in a purely literal way robs us of some of the great insights available therein. even if one does not agree with a given person's viewpoint, he/she can learn from the interaction. afterall, we're all on the same side. good job dr. metzger!
Rating: 5
Summary: THE BEST Guide to the Book of Revelation
Comment: In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the Book of Revelation, not only as a divinely inspired message to the Church of Jesus Christ filled with words of comfort and beauty, but also (in some circles) as a predictor of the events, sequence and date of the end times.
The mistaken idea that Revelation is a sort of Cook's Tour to the last days of the earth has entered into the popular culture in such a way that the actual portent of the book has been partially or even totally obscured by creative writers.
As a helpful corrective it is always good to ask, "What have Christians for the better part of 2000 years believed about Revelation?"
When we seek for answers, we cannot have a better guide than Bruce Metzger, who is an internationally acclaimed New Testament scholar and who has taught for many years at Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Metzger is also the chairman of the New Revised Standard Version (of the Bible) Translation Committee.
With all of his academic credentials, you might think, "Oh dear this is going to be a dry book." But that is not the case. Dr. Metzger has written a book that is easily understood, targeted not for the professional theologian but rather for the general reader.
While some books about Revelation err on the side of rigid timetables and several quotations from the first chapter may serve to illustrate Dr. Metzger's approach. He says, "The book of Revelation is unique in appealing primarily to our imagination... Many of the details of the pictures are intended to contribute to the total impression, and are not to be isolated and interpreted with wooden literalism." (page 11). Such a statement shows the reader the straightforward and sensible approach Dr. Metzger utilizes throughout the study.
The reader is indebted to Dr. Metzger for insights that help make the Book of Revelation less of a mystery and more of an inspiration. He reminds us that people are represented by animals, that historical events are portrayed in terms of natural phenomena and that colors and numbers have a coded or secret meaning. The key to understanding Revelation comes not only in breaking the code for which all of these things stand, but also, in Dr. Metzger's words, remembering that: "such features in the books should make us wary of turning Revelation into a kind of almanac or time chart of the last days based on the sequence of visions that John experienced." (Page 19). It serves as a corrective, both for those who have avoided Revelation, and for those who focus all of their Biblical attention upon it.
There is a leader's guide in the back of the book which is very helpful to the reader, whether or not the book is being used in a Bible Study Class.
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Title: Revelation and the End of All Things by Craig R. Koester ISBN: 0802846602 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Book of Revelation (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by Robert H. Mounce ISBN: 0802825370 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Pauline Christianity (Oxford Bible Series) by John A. Ziesler ISBN: 0198264593 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ministry and Message of Paul, The by Richard N. Longenecker ISBN: 0310283418 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 27 June, 1971 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Revelation: Four Views : A Parallel Commentary by Steve Gregg ISBN: 0840721285 Publisher: Nelson Reference Pub. Date: 14 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $32.99 |
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