Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
8 - Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Through a Glass Darkly: Time, the End, and the Essence of Apocalyptica
- 2 Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- 3 Introduction to the Book of Revelation
- 4 The Gnostic Apocalypses
- 5 Exegeting the Apocalypse with the Donatist Communion
- 6 Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration: Experiments in the Restoration of the Late Roman Empire
- 7 Latin Reception of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
- 8 Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century
- 9 The End of the World at the Ends of the Earth: Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval Ireland
- 10 Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature
- 11 Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century
- 12 Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe
- 13 “Pride & Vanity of the Imagination, That Disdains to Follow This World’s Fashion”: Apocalypticism in the Age of Reason
- 14 The Formation of Antichrist in Medieval Western Christian Thought
- 15 From Dabiq to Jerusalem: Trajectories of Contemporary Salafi-jihadi Apocalypticism
- 16 American Evangelicals and the Apocalypse
- 17 Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World
- Appendix: Early Medieval Commentaries on the Apocalypse
- Index
- Series page
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the content of three obscure texts written in the tenth century and related to the biblical Apocalypse, and observes that their authors lacked millennial anxieties and utilized earlier exegetical writings.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature , pp. 137 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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Selected Further Reading
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Arethas of Caesarea. Commentarius in Apocalypsin. Patrologia Graeca 106, 485–786. Paris: Petit-Montrouge, 1863.Google Scholar
Bede, . Commentary on Revelation. Translated by Wallis, Faith. Translated Texts for Historians 58. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Gumerlock, Francis X., ed. and trans. Carolingian Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Theodulf and Smaragdus. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019.Google Scholar
McNamara, Martin. “The Irish Affiliations of the Catechesis Celtica.” Celtica 21 (1990): 291–334.Google Scholar
Oecumenius, . Commentary on the Apocalypse. Translated by Suggit, John N.. Fathers of the Church 112. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Palmer, James T. The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rittmueller, Jean. “MS Vat. Reg. lat. 49 Reviewed.” Sacris Erudiri 33 (1992–93): 259–305.Google Scholar
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Wilmart, André, ed. Analecta Reginensia. Studi e Testi 59. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1933.Google Scholar