Revelation Through Old Testament Eyes..., Tremper Longman III
Revelation Through Old Testament Eyes..., Tremper Longman III
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Revelation Through Old Testament Eyes

Author: Tremper Longman III

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 15 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/10/2022


Synopsis

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. 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, Revelation Through Old Testament Eyes combines rigorous, focused New Testament scholarship with deep respect for the entire biblical text.

About Tremper Longman III

Tremper Longman III is Distinguished Scholar of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary.

Longman is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials, and coeditor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have coauthored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery, and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on November 27, 2022

Summary: A running commentary of the book of Revelation that focuses on the Old Testament background running through the book, along with material that goes deeper on the Old Testament material relating to different themes and the structure of the book as well as its contemporary application. There i......more

Goodreads review by Jimmy on July 14, 2024

Tremper Longman in the New Testament? That was a surprise! With a little more thought I can guess why. There are many OT allusions in Revelation as well as the fact that Daniel is especially related to Revelation and Longman has written on it. I must admit up front that I don’t share Longman’s overal......more

Goodreads review by Peter on August 08, 2022

Revelation Through Old Testament Eyes (A Background and Application Commentary) by Tremper Longman III is a new volume in a series of commentaries that seek to work from the fact that the Bible of the New Testament authors was the Old Testament, and, as they write, they write with the Old Testament......more

Goodreads review by John on January 30, 2025

Pretty Good… So this is a pretty good commentary on the book of Revelation, but like all commentaries on that enigmatic book, it falls short in really clarifying what is going on. The good: 1. Mr. Longman gets the crucial stuff correct. He summarizes the purpose of Revelation as: “Truth be told, Revel......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on May 20, 2024

Excellent discussion of Revelation from the perspective of an OT scholar. In the main, he takes an approach similar to that of Beale, Poythress, etc. Written at an intermediate level, this commentary is worth consulting for any student of the book of Revelation.......more