The positions weighed in Part IV and throughout are not strawmen; they are taken from their representative works. This list is indicative, not exhaustive, and the full apparatus belongs to the companion volumes.
Calendar and falsification methodology: R. J. Allinson, Danielic Chronology and the Hebrew Festal Calendar (version 5, July 11, 2026; concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20223126), with the deposited falsification protocol (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21220318; corrected 10.5281/zenodo.21288352; pre-test addendum 10.5281/zenodo.21316456) and the Intercalation Enumeration supplement (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21420385) — the falsification discipline (§25) and the structural envelope test referred to in §6.
Daniel 9 — the critical / Maccabean reading: John J. Collins, Daniel (Hermeneia, 1993); John E. Goldingay, Daniel (Word Biblical Commentary, 1989); James A. Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (ICC, 1927).
Revelation — recapitulation and the amillennial/idealist reading: William Hendriksen, More Than Conquerors (1939); G. K. Beale, The Book of Revelation (NIGTC, 1999); Anthony A. Hoekema, The Bible and the Future (1979).
Pre-tribulationism: John F. Walvoord, The Rapture Question (1957); J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come (1958); with Tim LaHaye as its popular voice.
Post-tribulationism: Robert H. Gundry, The Church and the Tribulation (1973).
The pre-wrath school: Marvin Rosenthal, The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church (1990); Robert Van Kampen, The Sign (1992) and The Rapture Question Answered: Plain and Simple (1997).
Preterism — on Daniel 9 and the Olivet discourse: Kenneth L. Gentry Jr., Before Jerusalem Fell (1989); N. T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God (1996).
Historicist (Islamic) seal-reading: the continuous-historical reading of the seals as the rise of an Islamic beast-empire, popularly developed at Midnight Watcher (ICA), midnightwatcher.com.
Position paper carried out in support of the author's own reflection. The theological positions worked out here are contested; they are presented in their strongest form, with the honest test that makes them robust. Firm about the structure, modest about the date, watching in both.
— June 2026; revised July 2026 (§6 the built-in leap year; §25 the protocol)
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The positions weighed in Part IV and throughout are not strawmen; they are taken from their representative works. This list is indicative, not exhaustive, and the full apparatus belongs to the companion volumes.
Calendar and falsification methodology: R. J. Allinson, Danielic Chronology and the Hebrew Festal Calendar (version 5, July 11, 2026; concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20223126), with the deposited falsification protocol (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21220318; corrected 10.5281/zenodo.21288352; pre-test addendum 10.5281/zenodo.21316456) and the Intercalation Enumeration supplement (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21420385) — the falsification discipline (§25) and the structural envelope test referred to in §6.
Daniel 9 — the critical / Maccabean reading: John J. Collins, Daniel (Hermeneia, 1993); John E. Goldingay, Daniel (Word Biblical Commentary, 1989); James A. Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (ICC, 1927).
Revelation — recapitulation and the amillennial/idealist reading: William Hendriksen, More Than Conquerors (1939); G. K. Beale, The Book of Revelation (NIGTC, 1999); Anthony A. Hoekema, The Bible and the Future (1979).
Pre-tribulationism: John F. Walvoord, The Rapture Question (1957); J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come (1958); with Tim LaHaye as its popular voice.
Post-tribulationism: Robert H. Gundry, The Church and the Tribulation (1973).
The pre-wrath school: Marvin Rosenthal, The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church (1990); Robert Van Kampen, The Sign (1992) and The Rapture Question Answered: Plain and Simple (1997).
Preterism — on Daniel 9 and the Olivet discourse: Kenneth L. Gentry Jr., Before Jerusalem Fell (1989); N. T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God (1996).
Historicist (Islamic) seal-reading: the continuous-historical reading of the seals as the rise of an Islamic beast-empire, popularly developed at Midnight Watcher (ICA), midnightwatcher.com.
Position paper carried out in support of the author's own reflection. The theological positions worked out here are contested; they are presented in their strongest form, with the honest test that makes them robust. Firm about the structure, modest about the date, watching in both.
— June 2026; revised July 2026 (§6 the built-in leap year; §25 the protocol)