For For serious readers and preachers wanting a classic one-volume commentary on Revelation; not for those wanting a prophetic timetable of the end.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A widely used one-volume commentary on Revelation by a scholar who wrote at length on how biblical imagery works.
How it proceeds
Scriptural5 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Caird's commentary on the Book of Revelation, published in London by A. and C. Black in 1966 in Black's New Testament Commentaries and in New York by Harper and Row in the parallel Harper's New Testament Commentaries. The first edition ran to some 316 pages; a second edition followed in 1984, the year of his death, and Hendrickson reissued it in the United States. No copy was examined for this record, so its particular readings are not described here.
The Revelation of St John the Divine
by G. B. Caird
For For serious readers and preachers wanting a classic one-volume commentary on Revelation; not for those wanting a prophetic timetable of the end.
Should I read this?
A widely used one-volume commentary on Revelation by a scholar who wrote at length on how biblical imagery works.
How it proceeds
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Caird's commentary on the Book of Revelation, published in London by A. and C. Black in 1966 in Black's New Testament Commentaries and in New York by Harper and Row in the parallel Harper's New Testament Commentaries. The first edition ran to some 316 pages; a second edition followed in 1984, the year of his death, and Hendrickson reissued it in the United States. No copy was examined for this record, so its particular readings are not described here.
Catalog ID
W.BDAF4H.5