Edwin R. Thiele
Edwin R. Thiele is a former missionary, editor, college and university professor who is now retired. He has gained worldwide recognition for bringing "order out of chaos" in the area of the chronology of the Hebrew kings.
Articles by Edwin R. Thiele
The Basic Principle of Missions
October 1939
Vital to the cause of foreign missions is the fact that in wide sections of the Christian church new conceptions are coming in concerning the basic nature of Christianity itself and concerning the genius of non-Christian…
The Nature of Non-Christian Religions
February 1939
What is the real nature of non-Christian religions, and what should be the attitude of the Christian toward them? Are these religions in reality gropings of men for God, and do they lead to God, or are they systems of…
Problems of Daniel 1 (Concluded)
September 1941
In the article last month on the problems of A the I and their solution, five problems were stipulated, and we dealt with three, showing that they were no problem at all. We come now to problems 4 and 5, and their explanation.
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Our Attitude Toward Higher Criticism
February 1941
In times past our attitude toward higher criticism has consisted altogether too often of nothing but criticism in return, and that, many times, of a type to which I fear the term ''higher" would hardly apply. A blind denunciation of men and…
The Seven-headed Beasts of Revelation
January 1946
In the book of Revelation three different beasts are described as having seven heads and ten horns: first, the "great red dragon" (Rev. 12:3) ; next, the leopardlike beast which John saw rise out of the sea, having the feet…
Pyramids, Israel, and Sojourn
September 1949
The great pyramids of Egypt were built by the kings of the fourth dynasty, during the third millennium 33.c. The Hebrews, or children of Israel, are the descendants of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or Israel, who lived in the…
Pompeii an Example of the End of the World
January 1958
Ancient Pompeii—one day the sinful but one of the richest, gayest, most beautiful, and carefree cities of the Roman world, and the next day nothing but a desolate, forsaken mass of ruins lying prostrate in the…
The Problem of Overlapping Reigns
August 1960
IN SUCH a study as this it will, of course, not be possible to deal with all the problems of Hebrew chronology, but we will confine ourselves to a single area concerning which there has been much discussion. The period under review will…
The veracity of Bible chronology
July 1960
THROUGHOUT the ages, endless and bitter attacks against the reliability of the Biblical record have come from men who were moved more by zeal than by knowledge. These charges of inaccuracies in the Word of God have been due largely…
Zeal, but Not According to Knowledge*
June 1960
* This study was given to the workers of the Lake Union Conference at its tenth quadrennial session held at Detroit, Michigan, March 9-12, 1959.
PAUL in his letter to the Romans (10:2) speaks of his countrymen as possessing…
Solving the Problems of Daniel 1
August 1941
Certain problems connected with the first few verses of the first chapter of Daniel have long been a source of perplexity to Bible students. Some consider these problems of so serious a character and so incapable of solution that the material…