REVELATION FIRST
Works Cited
The apparatus behind the six-rung ladder, in two registers: the scholarly literature the argument engages, and the archive deposits that carry the primary work. Neither list is a reading list — each entry is load-bearing somewhere on the ladder.
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Scholarly literature
As cited in Revelation First: The Priority Question New Testament Chronology Has Not Tested. Aune and Frankfurter carry rung III; Robinson, van Kooten, Wilson, Schaff and Milligan carry rung I; Pervo and Tyson carry rung II; Trobisch, Gamble, Hahneman and Metzger carry corpus formation.
- Aune, D.E. 1990 ‘The Form and Function of the Proclamations to the Seven Churches (Revelation 2–3)’, NTS 36: 182–204.
- Aune, D.E. 1997–98 Revelation (3 vols; WBC, 52A–C; Dallas and Nashville: Word/Thomas Nelson).
- Bauckham, R. 1993 The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation (Edinburgh: T&T Clark).
- Beale, G.K. 1999 The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text (NIGTC; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans).
- Charles, R.H. 1920 A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St John (2 vols; ICC; Edinburgh: T&T Clark).
- Choat, M. 2019 ‘Dating Papyri: Familiarity, Instinct and Guesswork’, JSNT 42: 58–83.
- Frankfurter, D. 2024 ‘The Fiction of the Seven Letters in the Apocalypse: Representing Heavenly Authority in the Shadow of Paul’, HTR 117: 79–98.
- Gamble, H.Y. 1995 Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press).
- Hahneman, G.M. 1992 The Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon (Oxford Theological Monographs; Oxford: Clarendon Press).
- Hort, F.J.A. 1908 The Apocalypse of St John I–III: The Greek Text with Introduction, Commentary, and Additional Notes (London: Macmillan).
- Koester, C.R. 2014 Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (AYB, 38A; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press).
- Metzger, B.M. 1987 The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
- Milligan, W. 1893 Discussions on the Apocalypse (London: Macmillan).
- Mucha, R. 2014 ‘Ein flavischer Nero: Zur Domitian-Darstellung und Datierung der Johannesoffenbarung’, NTS 60: 83–105.
- Newton, I. 1733 Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St John (London: J. Darby and T. Browne).
- Nongbri, B. 2019 ‘Palaeographic Analysis of Codices from the Early Christian Period: A Point of Method’, JSNT 42: 84–97.
- Pervo, R.I. 2006 Dating Acts: Between the Evangelists and the Apologists (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press).
- Riesner, R. 2011 ‘Pauline Chronology’, in S. Westerholm (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Paul (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell): 9–29.
- Robinson, J.A.T. 1976 Redating the New Testament (London: SCM Press).
- Sánchez Bosch, J. 1991 ‘La Chronologie de la première aux Thessaloniciens et les relations de Paul avec d’autres églises’, NTS 37: 336–47.
- Schaff, P. 1910 History of the Christian Church. I. Apostolic Christianity, A.D. 1–100 (3rd edn; New York: Scribner’s).
- Swete, H.B. 1907 The Apocalypse of St John (2nd edn; London: Macmillan).
- Trobisch, D. 1994 Paul’s Letter Collection: Tracing the Origins (Minneapolis: Fortress Press).
- Tyson, J.B. 2006 Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press).
- van Kooten, G.H. 2007 ‘The Year of the Four Emperors and the Revelation of John: The “pro-Neronian” Emperors Otho and Vitellius, and the Images and Colossus of Nero in Rome’, JSNT 30: 205–48.
- Wilson, J.C. 1993 ‘The Problem of the Domitianic Date of Revelation’, NTS 39: 587–605.
Archive deposits
Primary work, sovereign identifiers. Each resolves to its record at alexanarch.
- Revelation First: A Work Plan for Retrieval-Layer Theological Reception EA-LOGOS-REVFIRST-PLAN v7.3 AXN:04D1 · #1216
- Revelation First ≠ Revelation Early: The Apocalypse as the Earliest New Testament Document the canonical thesis AXN:0349 · #202
- The Upstream Unfoldings: Six Operable Transforms from Sappho 31 foldings in AXN:061A · #1511
- The Algorithmic Kernel: An Unfolding Demonstration the eight rules, James verse-matched AXN:0597 · #1414
- The Seven Unfoldings: The Heptad Mapped per-letter derivations, graded AXN:0599 · #1416
- The Signature Without the Name blind reconstruction; Longinus and Philo AXN:0601 · #1486
- The Echo and the Stamp: Peri Hypsous as a Theory of Transmission Longinus AXN:05E4 · #1458
- The Socket and the Stamp: Sappho 31.17 as Completed Composition the join AXN:05F8 · #1478
- φωνῆς δίχα: The Hanging Line as the Complete Poem Sappho 31.17 AXN:05F6 · #1476
- the Ω erratum — Sappho, Mother of the Logos: The Transmission the chain whole AXN:05FE · #1483
- Revelation First: Pre-Seeding Baseline Measurement EA-LOGOS-RECEPTION AXN:0348 · #830
- Revelation First ≠ Revelation Early: Keyword Surface and Pre-Seeding reception AXN:040D · #1025
Zenodo DOIs from this corpus were tombstoned 19 June 2026. Where they appear across the fleet they are retained as historical record and marked severed; the AXN carries the live link.