Some blame Cerinthius or first century Rabbis for the origin of chiliasm. Sometimes the prophecy of weeks in 1 Enoch is mentioned, but one place I find rarily...
One must not restrict oneself to either Enoch or Jubilees for the background of chiliastic thought. Papias was known to be a chiliast saying The days will...
That's about right. It was found at Qumran so we know with certainty that it existed then. As I recall the Qumran calendar differed from that of the Temple...
Incidentally, perhaps I shouldn't think things are too obvious, but I was struck by the similarity between the Papias quotation and that of 2 Baruch. george...
And rightly so Jan! I will also mention that Jubilees chapter 23 and 1:26-29 may be associated with the temporary messianic reign. I think that might be given...
Of course, ultimately the concept of chiliasm goes back to the "world week" in which the world is to last 7 days of 1000 years each. george gfsomsel …...
I'm not sure it's as "obvious" as that Looking at Jewish writings pre-Revelation, the world week is one strand but the idea of a preliminary reign of messiah...
Today there is little agreement on exactly what the Apocalypse is saying. There are several major ideas that believers tend to cluster around such as preterism...
Very interesting article, Alan. Good to see allegorical readings of Revelation being put forward again. However, I see some areas that may be in tension with...
I am really less concerned with the historically manifested schools of interpretation of the Apocalypse than I am with interpreting it according to its own...
Thank you very much Dr. Newton, and thank you for your questions. In my scheme the association of the abomination of desolation with 70 AD is due to a Jewish...
Thank you for your input. The primary idea that I'm basing my theory on is that pre-Christian Palestinian Jewish interpretation was wrong. The Jews didn't...
I think you'll find that what was considered to be wrong in the Jewish interpretation was an emphasis upon a literal 1000 year period of a messianic reign upon...
I see three periods of past influence on interpreting biblical prophecy that have contributed to today's diverse views. A. The pre-Christian teachings of...
7 And Papias, of whom we are now speaking, confesses that he received the words of the apostles from those that followed them, but says that he was himself a ...
1 There are extant five books of Papias, which bear the title Expositions of Oracles of the Lord. Irenaeus makes mention of these as the only works written by...
Thank you for re-posting the comments of Eusebius that were discussed in April. You may remember that Eusebius changed his eschatology after Rome adopted...
Offhand, I don't recall that Eusebius changed his eschatology though he did change his Christology depending upon which direction the political winds seemed to...
Thank you, Here is the article about Eusebius. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1583992 I am saying what Cerinthius believed was something diffferent than Papias...
Dionysius of Alexandria wrote to oppose a chiliast view before Eusebius as well. 1 Besides all these the two books on the Promises were prepared by him. The ...
Yes. I wrote earlier; ... taught in the Christian tradition, besides the heretic Cerinthius, until Nepos of Egypt.<< Dionysius wrote in response to Nepos, and...
Dionysius convinced Nepos of nothing. 4 "But since they bring forward a certain work of Nepos, on which they rely confidently, as if it proved beyond dispute...
I note that even Eusebius calls it a private opinion by Nepos, and not a wide spread doctrine of the early church. He also refers to it as "Jewish." Eusebius,...
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I apologize for my ignorance of Greek. Here is what I get when I translate to English. At any rate the latter from the glory of his Apokal?pseos John id?an...
