As I am becoming more and more aware of resources available responding to the preteristic understanding of Matthew 24:34 [ἡ γενεὰ αὕτη], I want to make them accessible here for those who are interested in knowing what resources exist.
I affirm that genea [γενεὰ] is used qualitatively in Matthew 24:34 to speak of a class/type of evil and wicked people which have existed from Abel to the time of Jesus [Matthew 23:35-36] and will continue until the Lord comes back (2nd Coming) and destroys “this” evil and wicked generation.
My original work is here: https://sakeofthetruth.wordpress.com/2022/04/26/matthew-2434-this-generation/ and my 3-part response to Gary DeMar is located below:
Response #1: https://sakeofthetruth.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/responding-to-gary-demars-critique-of-my-article-pt-1/
Response #2: https://sakeofthetruth.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/responding-to-gary-demars-critique-of-my-article-pt-2/
Response #3: https://sakeofthetruth.wordpress.com/2022/07/14/responding-to-gary-demars-critique-of-my-article-pt-3/
These are some excellent resources that have concluded something similar:
Constable, Thomas, Commentary on Matthew 24:34“. “Dr. Constable’s Expository Notes”. 2012. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dcc/matthew-24.html.
DeBruyn, Lawrence, “Preterism and ‘This Generation,‘” Bibliotheca Sacra 167:666 (April-June 2010): 180-200. https://www.academia.edu/34057739/PRETERISM_AND_THIS_GENERATION_
DeWaay, Bob, “This Generation” and it’s Preterist Exegetical Misuse. Issue 100 – May/June 2007.
https://cicministry.org/commentary/issue100b.htm
du Toit, Philip, ‘This generation’ in Matthew 24:34 as a timeless, spiritual generation akin to Genesis 3:15, Verbum Eccles. (Online) vol.39 n.1 Pretoria 2018.
https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2074-77052018000100024
Goeman, Peter, “Why Jeff Durbin and Preterists are Wrong about “This Generation” in Matthew 24:34.” https://youtu.be/JTxG6X7Uors?si=kG-OEccBoZm-Wf_u
Hollett, Brock, The Meaning of Christ’s “This Generation.” https://www.youtube.com/live/iPiLJDvLvqY?si=_oWmluVWBgPwHSqG
Hollett, Brock, Debunking Preterism: How Over-Realized Eschatology Misses the “Not Yet” of Bible Prophecy (Brock’s Books LLC), 1st Ed. 2018.
Note: Hollett was a representative of Historic Premillennialism more situated within mainstream Evangelicalism when he wrote this book in its first edition and did the YouTube video above. Since then, he has gone on to embrace Eastern Orthodoxy, and I will not recommend any of his other works going forward from this transition. That being said, these works are excellent in dealing with the preteristic contentions, and he follows Evald Lövestam in his thinking on “this generation.”
Jöris, Steffen, The Use and Function of Genea in the Gospel of Mark: New Light on Mk 13:30, Forschung Zur Bibel (Würzburg: Echter Verlag, 2015).
https://www.echter.de/the-use-and-function-of-genea-in-the-gospel-of-mark-new-light-on-mk-13-30/
Lövestam, Evald, Jesus and “This Generation”: A New Testament Study, trans. Noira Linnarud, Coniectanea Biblica New Testament Series 25 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1995).
Meyer, Ryan, ‘This Generation’ in Matthew 24:34 and the New Exodus, Diss., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dec 2021. https://www.proquest.com/openview/724d5348f9c16d2210d40aed7e44d931/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
https://www.academia.edu/97411885/This_Generation_in_Matthew_24_34
Note: This was just released with the Studies in Judeo-Christian Thought Monograph Series by Editor Cory Marsh: https://scspress.socalsem.edu/this-generation/
Michaelis, Wilhelm, Der Herr verzieht nicht die Verheissung: die Aussagen
Jesu über die Nähe des Jüngsten Tages (Bern: Buchhandluner der Evangelischen
Gesellschaft, 1942).
Morgenthaler, R. “Genea,” New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, ed. Colin Brown, 3 vols. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1976), 2:36.
Morris, Leon, The Gospel According to Matthew (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992) 612-613.
Nelson, Jr., Neil, This Generation in Matt 24:34 : A Literary Critical Perspective. JETS 38/3 (September 1996), 369-385.
https://etsjets.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/files_JETS-PDFs_38_38-3_JETS_38-3_Nelson_369-386.pdf
Rieske, Susan, A Tale of Two Families: “This Generation” and the Elect in the Book of Matthew.” Wheaton College ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019.
https://www.proquest.com/docview/2320936678?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
Sibley, Jim R., The Undercover Messiah and His Coming Kingdom, (Wipf & Stock, 2025).
Thanks Ian
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