George Eldon Ladd on Apocalyptic and New Testament Theology

The following article is now on-line in PDF:

George Eldon Ladd, "Apocalyptic and New Testament Theology," Robert Banks, ed., Reconciliation and Hope. New Testament Essays on Atonement and Eschatology Presented to L.L. Morris on his 60th Birthday. Carlisle: The Paternoster Press, 1974. pp.285-296.

Ladd sums up his article in these words:

we have tried to show that the New Testament owes its basic structure to Jewish apocalyptic, which was in turn derived from the Old Testament. Apart from the inauguration of the age to come, God’s work of salvation remains ever incomplete. Because we have already experienced the powers of the age to come, it remains more than a hope; it is a certainty based both on the teaching of Scripture and on Christian experience.

F.F. Bruce's Reappraisal of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

The following article is now on-line on PDF:

F.F. Bruce, "A Reappraisal of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature," Review and Expositor 72 (1975): 305-315.

If you interested in apocalyptic then you should also read:

Leon Morris, Apocalyptic, 2nd edn. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans / Leicester: IVP, 1973. Pbk. ISBN: 0851113125. pp.128.

Leon Morris on Apocalyptic

The following book is now available on-line in PDF:

Leon Morris, Apocalyptic, 2nd edn. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans / Leicester: IVP, 1973. Pbk. ISBN: 0851113125. pp.128.

Thanks to the kind permission of the Leon & Mildred Morris Foundation I am pleased to be able to rescue this helpful little book from obscurity and make it available to a new generation of students. As Leon Morris writes in his preface:

This little book is not meant to be a profound or original contribution to a difficult subject. It is written out of two convictions: the one, that apocalyptic is an important part of the background of the New Testament, the other, that it is not well understood by the average student. Indeed, I fear that the average student would be hard put to it to give more than one or two characteristics of this kind of literature. I have written accordingly to help him get the picture. Recog­nizing that experts in apocalyptic differ widely among them­selves and that there are many points of uncertainty, I have tried to show what are the generally held opinions and what are the controverted areas. This then is simply an intro­duction to a very important but little understood part of the background of the New Testament.

George Eldon Ladd on Apocalyptic in Biblical Religion

The following articles are now on-line in PDF:

George Eldon Ladd, "The Place of Apocalyptic in Biblical Religion," The Evangelical Quarterly 30.2 (1958): 75-85.

George Eldon Ladd, "The Origin of Apocalyptic in Biblical Religion," The Evangelical Quarterly 30.3 (1958): 140-146.

These articles represent the text of a lecture originally delivered at a meeting of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Research at Tyndale House, Cambridge.

George Eldon Ladd on Revelation and Jewish Apocalyptic

The following article is now on-line in PDF:

G.E. Ladd, "The Revelation and Jewish Apocalyptic," The Evangelical Quarterly 29.2 (1957): 94-100.

Despite my best efforts to track down the copyright holder of this article I was unsuccessful, so if you know who holds the rights, please contact me. I have a few more articles by Ladd from Evangelical Quarterly which will appear shortly.

This article provides a pithy summary of the differences between the book of Revelation and other contemporary works of Jewish Apocalyptic.