Revelation

REQUIRED READING

1. G.K. Beale and David H. Campbell, Revelation: A Shorter Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014)
2. Brian Tabb, All Things New: Revelation as Biblical Capstone (Downers Grove: IVP, 2019)

SUPPLEMENTARY / RECOMMENDED READING AND TOOLS (Bibliography)

Further reading lists at the end of most of the day topics or section provide a basis for further study in greater depth on particular issues within each section of the book, and you can access to books which are generally available in Perlego. 

The amount of modern literature on the Gospels and Acts is enormous. This applies especially to commentaries, where there is no way that we can list all the useful works on any of the NT books.

Dictionaries

ABD, D. N. Freedman, ed. Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols). New York: Doubleday, 1992.

DJG2  J. B. Green, J. K. Brown andvN. Perrin, eds. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, revised ed. Nottingham/ Downers Grove: IVP, 2012.

DLNTD  R. P. Martin and P. H. Davids, eds., Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments. Leicester/ Downers Grove: IVP, 1997.

DNTB C. A. Evans and S. E. Porter, eds., Dictionary of New Testament Background. Leicester/Downers Grove: IVP, 2000.

NDBT  T. D. Alexander and B. S. Rosner, eds., New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Leicester/Downers Grove: IVP, 2000.

A number of standard reference books can be recommended for following up most of the topics covered in this book. As a first step students are encouraged to look up the relevant articles on the NT documents in dictionaries such as ABD, DJG2 and DLNTD (see Abbreviations above). On certain topics, DNTB and NDBT will be useful.

In this section, we have mention those works that are found very helpful without implying that those that we haven’t mentioned are somehow inferior. Further you will find that, there are commentaries often referred as ‘exegetical’ (and ‘exegesis’) – referring to understand what the text would have meant to its original readers; ‘expository’ and ‘exposition’ refer to trying to explain the significance that the text might have for readers today.

Multi-Volume Commentaries

AB or Anchor Bible Ongoing series of full commentaries using Greek in transliteration, generally providing detailed notes followed by explanatory discussion of each passage. Earlier volumes in the series were of unequal quality; more recent ones are very good but some tend to excessive length.

ANTC Abingdon NT Commentary  Intended to provide ‘compact critical commentaries’ catering to the needs of students and preachers.

BECNT Baker Exegetical Commentary on the NT Detailed commentaries  working with the Greek, but generally accessible for those who do not have Greek.

BST The Bible Speaks Today Expository commentaries with varying amounts of detail; useful for preachers.

EBC The Expositor’s Bible Commentary Multi-volume series on the whole Bible originally published some thirty years ago now appearing in a thoroughly revised new edition with many fresh treatments.

ECC Eerdmans Critical Commentary New series offering detailed exegesis based on the Greek text.

Herm Hermeneia Detailed technical  commentaries on the Greek text.

ICC International Critical Commentary Full-scale treatments of the Greek text. Older, nineteenth- and twentieth-century volumes are now being replaced by fresh volumes.

Int Interpretation Middle-length commentaries specifically designed to be helpful to preachers.

IVPNTC InterVarsity Press New Testament Commentaries Similar to BST in bringing out the contemporary relevance of the text, but with a greater emphasis on the basic exegesis.

NAC New American Commentary Multi-volume series, aiming to be exegetical and expository; largely from a conservative and Baptist background.

NIGTC New International Greek Testament Commentary Detailed commentaries on the Greek text; less technical than ICC.

NIVAC NIV Application Commentary Offering a combination of exegesis and application linked together by a ‘bridge’ between then and now.

TNTC Tyndale New Testament Commentaries Introductory-level commentaries providing the essential exegetical help.

WBC Word Biblical Commentary Detailed commentaries using Greek quite widely; less technical than ICC.

One Volume Bible Commentaries

Several one-volume commentaries cover the whole Bible or the NT:

2001. Barton and J. Muddiman, eds. The Oxford Bible Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
2002. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, eds. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic/ Nottingham: Apollos, 2007. (Very detailed, at times technical, treatment of the quotations from, allusions to and echoes of the OT in the NT.)
2003. A. Carson et al., eds. The New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition. Leicester/ Downers Grove: IVP, 1994. (Introductory level with more emphasis on explanation of the text than the Eerdmans and Oxford counterparts; unlike them does not include Apocrypha.)

Brian C. Wintle, et.al eds. South Asia Bible Commentary, Open Door Publications Pvt. Ltd. Udaipur India, 2015.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Since the production of the first edition of this book web-based resources have mushroomed. There is a mass of valuable material that can easily be accessed, as well as some unreliable material that should be treated with caution. In our bibliographies there will be reference to some of the resources available. One of the most useful sites is Dr Mark Goodacre’s New Testament Gateway- http://www.ntgateway.com.  

In addition, the Tyndale House library catalogue <http://www.tyncat.com> provides links to published books which are available online – many of the books in our bibliographies can be accessed this way.