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8 - Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

By
Francis X. Gumerlock
Edited by
Colin McAllister
Colin McAllister
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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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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manuscriptsArethas of CaesareaCatechesis CelticaHiberno-Latin
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The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature , pp. 137 - 155
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Andrew of Caesarea. Commentary on the Apocalypse. Translated by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou. Fathers of the Church 123. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2011.Google Scholar
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
Vaciago, P., ed. and trans. Glossae Biblicae, Pars II. Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio Mediaevalis 189B. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004.Google Scholar
Wilmart, André, ed. Analecta Reginensia. Studi e Testi 59. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1933.Google Scholar

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