Category: RENAISSANCE
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9/5/22 FROM THE INTRODUCTIONS OF THE 18TH CENTURY BOOKS ON REVELATION, PART 3

Good morning! Today we’ll start with Johann David Michaelis’ INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, first published in 1750. Michaelis was Prussian by some accounts, and German by others; he was also a Lutheran, and a very well-known scholar of his time. He was specifically a scholar in Hebrew and Arabic, and through the study of…
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8/15/22 FROM THE INTRODUCTIONS OF 17TH CENTURY BOOKS ON REVELATION

We’re in the 17th century, looking at some of the general comments about Revelation found in the introductions or prologues of the books of that time. The first one we’ll look at is a short one from Hugh Broughton’s A REVELATION OF THE HOLY APOCALYPSE from 1610. The introduction is called “The Summary of the…
