Origins: Prophetic Interpretation (1823–1910)

Protestant interpreters of Daniel and Revelation whose methods shaped Adventist and Bible Student chronology: the "year-day" principle, the 1260, 1290 and 1335 days, and the "seven times" counted as 2,520 years (John Aquila Brown, 1823). Here are E. B. Elliott's Horae Apocalypticae, the Christadelphian founder John Thomas and the Lutheran J. A. Seiss. C. T. Russell's Studies in the Scriptures build on this tradition and cite some of these writers.

These works were not published by the Watch Tower Society; see the Related Works section page for why they are in this library.

• The Even-Tide; or, Last Triumph of the Blessed and Only Potentate (1823)
• Horae Apocalypticae, Vol. 1 (Third Edition) (1847)
• Horae Apocalypticae, Vol. 2 (Third Edition) (1847)
• Horae Apocalypticae, Vol. 3 (Third Edition) (1847)
• Horae Apocalypticae, Vol. 4 (Third Edition) (1847)
• The Coming Struggle Among the Nations of the Earth (1853)
• The Day of the Lord (1861)
• The Last Times and the Great Consummation (1863)
• The Apostasy Unveiled (1872)
• Elpis Israel (Ninth Edition) (1910)