At church this Sunday we wrap up our 20-part series on the book of Revelation. This book used to terrify and confuse me, but now that I’ve studied what scholars and theologians have to say about it, it has quickly become one of my favorite books of the Bible. The picture it actually paints is incredibly beautiful and deeply convicting—and often backwards from the way we actually perceive it. Here are all the books I generally read through in order to preach this series (which can be listened to on season 8 of the 1208PODCAST). Hit me up if you want any further suggestions or details on any of these books.
Revelation’s Hymns: Commentary on the Cosmic Conflict | By Steven Grabiner
God, Heaven, and Har Magedon: A Covenantal Tale of Cosmos and Telos | By Meredith G. Kline
Word Biblical Commentary: Revelation 1-5, Volume 52A | By David Aune
Silence and Praise: Rhetorical Cosmology and Political Theology in the Book of Revelation | By Ryan Leif Hansen
The Geography of Hell in the Teaching of Jesus | By Kim Papaioannou
The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment, Third Edition | By Edward William Fudge
Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism | Edited Ben C. Blackwell
Revelation for Everyone | By N.T. Wright
New Covenant Commentary: Revelation | By Gordon D. Fee
Jesus the Bridegroom: The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels | By Phillip J. Long
The Righteous and Merciful Judge: The Day of the Lord in the Life and Theology of Paul | By Matthew D. Aernie
The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence | By Shanell T. Smith
Between the Cross and the Throne: The Book of Revelation | By Matthew Emerson
Jamin Bradley 