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>>>Almost all scholars support the Domitian date. You are in the vast minority and the burden of proof is on you. Only preterism requires the early date.<<<

All Scholars support the Domitian Date Theory, except the following:

Firmin Abauzit
Jay E. Adams
Luis de Alcasar
Karl August Auberlen
Greg L. Bahnsen
Arthur Stapylton Barnes
James Vernon Bartlet
Ferdinand Christian Baur
Albert A. Bell, Jr.
Leonhard Bertholdt
Willibald Beyschlag
Charles Bigg
Friedrich Bleek
Charles E. Blumenthal and Conway P. Wing
Heinrich Bohmer
Wilhelm Bousset
Frederick F. Bruce
Rudolf Bultmann
Christian Karl Josias Bunsen
W. Boyd Carpenter
Samuel Cheetham
David Chilton
Adam Clarke
William Newton Clarke
Henry Cowles
W. Gary Crampton
Berry Stewart Crebs
Karl August Credner
Samuel Davidson
Edmund De Pressense
P. S. Desprez
W. M. L. De Wette
Friedrich Dusterdieck
K. A. Eckhardt
Alfred Edersheim
George Edmundson
Johann Gottfried Eichhom
G. H. A. Ewald
Frederic W. Farrar
Grenville O. Field
George P. Fisher
J. A. Fitzmeyer
J. Massyngberde Ford
Hermann Gebhardt
James Glasgow
Robert McQueen Grant
James Comper Gray
Samuel G. Green
Hugo Grotius
Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guenke
Henry Melville Gwatkin
Henry Hammond
Harenberg, Erkianmg
H. G. Hartwig
Karl August von Hase
Bernard W. Henderson
Hentenius
Johann Gottfried von Herder
J. S. Herrenschneider
Adolf Hilgenfeld
David Hill
Hitzig
Heinrich Julius Holtzmann
F. J. A. Hort
John Leonhard Hug
William Hurte
A. Immer
Theodor Keim
Theodor Koppe
Max Krenkel
Johann Heinrich Kurtz
Victor Lechler
Francis Nigel Lee
Joseph B. Lightfoot
Gottfried C. F. Lucke
Christoph Ernst Luthardt
James M. Macdonald
Frederick Denisen Maurice
John David Michaelis
Charles Pettit M’Ilvaine
A. D. Momigliano
Theodor Mommsen
Charles Herbert Morgan
York: Eaton and Mains
C. F. D. Moule
John Augustus Wilhelm Neander
Sir Isaac Newton
Bishop Thomas Newton
A. Niermeyer
Alfred Plummer
Edward Hayes Plumtree
T. Randell
James J. L. Ratton
Ernest Renan
Eduard Wilhelm Eugen Reuss
Jean Reville
J. W. Roberts
Edward Robinson
John A. T. Robinson
J. Stuart Russell
Philip Schaff
Johann Friedrich Schleusner
J. H. Scholten
Albert Schwegler
J. J. Scott
Edward Condon Selwyn
Henry C. Sheldon
William Henry Simcox
D. Moody Smith
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Rudolf Ewald Stier
Augustus H. Strong
Moses Stuart
Milton S. Terry
Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck
Charles Cutler Torrey
Cornelis Vanderwaal
Gustav Volkmar
Foy E. Wallace, Jr.
Arthur Weigall
Bernhard Weiss
Brooke Foss Westcott
J. J. Wetstein
Karl Wieseler
Charles Wordsworth
Herbert B. Workman
Robert Young
C. F. J. Zullig

This is only a cursory list of those who support the early date theory: those who dismiss the Domitian date theory. There are others.

Philip

I'm looking for hard theologians ... not psychologists (Jay Adams). The first one I recognize is FF Bruce, who certainly did not espouse what you are claiming. He gave a range of years for the writing of Revelation, a far cry from accepting an early date.

Bottom line ... please remove any in your list who places a range of dates for Revelation that include both 60s and 90s ... then send it again.

It will be considerably smaller.

I suspect that will require a lot of work on your part, to procure the commentaries from the people you listed ... but that is what Biblical studies is about ... not posting lists from the internet ... check all of them out yourself.

There is also another exercise you can do ... find any early church writings that claim the second coming was a past event. Should have some of the other items in the list in my other post. Global event, kings destroyed, beast and false prophet, Israel converted, set foot on the mount of Olives, etc.