Revelation through Old Testament Eyes: A Background and Application Commentary (Through Old Testament Eyes)

by Tremper Longman III

Publisher:

Kregel

, 2022

Overview

The book of Revelation simply cannot be understood apart from the Old Testament.

Through Old Testament Eyes is a new kind of commentary series that illuminates the Old Testament backgrounds, allusions, patterns, and references saturating the New Testament. The structure and content of the Old Testament were second nature to the New Testament authors and their audiences, but today’s readers have no reference point for understanding their intricate role in the New Testament. Bible teachers, preachers, and students committed to understanding Scripture will gain insight through these rich Old Testament connections, which clarify puzzling passages and explain others in fresh ways.

The images of Revelation—like a seven-sealed scroll, four horsemen bringing destruction and death, locusts from the Abyss, and more—often seem hopelessly complex to today’s readers and have led to egregious misunderstanding and misinterpretations. But as Tremper Longman demonstrates in Revelation through Old Testament Eyes, this confusion arises from unfamiliarity with symbolism that Revelation’s first readers readily comprehended. In large part, the imagery arises from first-century AD Greco-Roman culture and from the Old Testament, with its own background in ancient Near Eastern literature. Through its unmistakable Old Testament connections, Revelation exhorts readers to persevere in the present and place their hope in God for the future.

Avoiding overly technical discussions and interpretive debates to concentrate on Old Testament influences, Revelation through Old Testament Eyes combines rigorous, focused New Testament scholarship with deep respect for the entire biblical text.

Key Features

• Combines rigorous, focused New Testament scholarship with deep respect for the entire biblical text
• Illuminates the Old Testament backgrounds, allusions, patterns, and references saturating the New Testament
• Addresses common misunderstandings and misinterpretations

Product Details

• Title: Revelation through Old Testament Eyes: A Background and Application Commentary
• Author: Tremper Longman III
• Series: Through Old Testament Eyes
• Publisher: Kregel
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 351
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Revelation › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780825444739, 082544473X
• Resource ID: LLS:RVLTNLDTSTMNTYS
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:50:31Z

About Tremper Longman III

Tremper Longman III serves as Distinguished Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. He has written over 35 books, including commentaries on Genesis, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Daniel, Nahum, and Revelation. His books have been translated into 18 different languages. In addition, as a Hebrew scholar, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translation, and has served as a consultant on other popular Bible translations, including The Message, the New Century Version, the Christian Standard Bible, and the Common Bible. He has also edited and contributed to a number of study Bibles and Bible dictionaries, most recently The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

He earned his BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and both his MPhil and PhD from Yale University. Dr. Longman and his wife, Alice, have three sons and eight grandchildren.