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Prophetic Interpretation

 
"Abysmal" Inconsistencies: A Note on the Beasts of Rev 11,17 in Adventist Interpretation (2 pp.)

Temporal Discrepencies in the Adventist Reading of Rev 11:1-13: A Brief Correction (3)

 “It’s About Time”: Chronological Indications in Revelation 13 (37)

"Missing the Mark": Is Sunday Observance the Mark of the Beast? (6)
 
The Catholic Church as Revelation's "Babylon": An Analysis of Three Arguments (5)
 
Exploring the Temporal Relationship between Revelation 19,20 (4)
 
The Hellenistic World as the Fourth Kingdom of Daniel 2: An Intratextual Defense of the Greek View (12)
 
Is the Papacy the "Little Horn" of Daniel 7? A Catholic Cross-Examination (6)
 
"Dating Around": The Legitimacy of 538,1798 CE in Adventist Prophetic Interpretation (10)
 
A Case Study in Adventist Eisegesis?: Judgment/Sanctuary Theology in Daniel 7-8 (3)

Who is "the Antichrist?": A Biblical Reevaluation (5)

"Eternal Destruction" in 2 Thess 1:9: A Case for Amillenniallism (5)

 

Judaic Observances

 
Two by Two, Seven by Seven: Noah and the Levitical Dietary Restrictions (3)
 
Levitical Dietary Restrictions in the New Testament: Hasel on Mark 7:1-22 and Acts 10-11 (6)

"What God Has Joined Together...": Contrasting the Permanence of the Sabbaths (8)

"Here a Little and There a Little": Reconsidering Six Sabbatarian Arguments (6)

The Sabbath Obligation as a Mosaic Ordinance: Revisiting a Patristic Apologetic (8)

The Community of the Gospel of John and the Sabbath (5)

Entering "That Rest": Hebrews 3-4 and the Embrace of Christian Sabbath (6)

"Splendid Isolation": Critiquing Three Seventh-day Sabbatarian Appropriations of Heb 4:9-10 (6)

Ecclesial Authority and the Mosaic Law: Acts 15 as a Paradigm for Resolving the Sabbath Question (3)

"By Public Edict and Decree": A Biblical Precedent for the Observance of Extra-Biblical Feasts (2)

 

The Intermediate Condition

 
The Challenges of Constructing a Theology of Death from Wisdom Literature: A Critical Review of Adventist Hermeneutics (13)

Old Testament Concepts of the "Soul" and "Afterlife" (19)

Visiting the Witch of Endor—Revisiting Adventist Thnetopsychism (7)

Psyche in Matthew 10:28: In Defense of a Bipartite Conception of Human Nature (5)

Unique Usages and Pretended Precedents: Bacchiocchi on Matthew 10:28 (2)

Revelation 6:9-11 as Portrayal of the Intermediate State: Examining Adventist Rejoinders (18)

Revelation's "Great Multitude" as Saints in the Intermediate State: A Suggestion (3)

Angelic-Psychical Interactions and the Cosmization of Death in Early Judeo-Christian Apocalyptic (26; available by email request)

“For All Live to God:” The Theology of Luke 20:37-38 in Ante- Nicene Sources (5)

The State of the Dead in Deuterocanonical Texts: Evaluating an Adventist Criticism (4)

"May He Find Mercy": 1 Tim 2:16-18 and the Validity of Intercessory Prayers for the Dead (3)
 


Eschatological Destiny


 "Unto the Ages of Ages": One Greek Phrase and the Eternal Duration of Eschatological Torment (2) 



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