عنوان

Commentary on Revelation /

(Number (ISBN

1846318440

(Number (ISBN

1846318459

(Number (ISBN

9781846318443

(Number (ISBN

9781846318450

Title Proper

Commentary on Revelation /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Bede ; translated with an introduction and notes by Faith Wallis.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Liverpool :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Liverpool University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 343 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Series Title

Translated texts for historians ;

Volume Designation

volume 58

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-308) and indexes.

Text of Note

The Commentary on Revelation is Bede's first venture into Biblical exegesis - an ambitious choice for a young monastic scholar in a newly Christianized land. Its subject matter - the climax of the great story of creation and redemption, of history and of time itself - adds to the Commentary's intrinsic importance, for these themes lie at the heart of Bede's concerns and of his achievement as a historian, exegete, scholar, and preacher. But Bede was also a man of his age. When he penned the Commentary around 703, speculation and anxiety about the end of the world was in the air. According to conventional chronology, almost 6,000 years had passed since creation. If for God 'one day ... is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day' (2 Peter 3:8), the world was destined to last six millennia, corresponding to the six days of creation. The end, then, was close. Bede vigorously opposed the temptation to calculate the time of the end. The Commentary argues that Revelation is not a literal prophecy, but a symbolic reflection on the perennial struggle of the Church in this world. At the same time, the young Bede is starting to shape his own account of how the end-times would unfold. This translation, prefaced by a substantial Introduction, will be of interest to students of medieval religious and cultural history, of Anglo-Saxon England, and of the history of Biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages."--Jacket.

Title

Translated texts for historians.

General Material Designation

Expositio Apocalypseos.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Parallel Title

Bede, Commentary on Revelation

Bede,673-735.

Bede,673-735

Bible., Revelation

Bible., Revelation.

Johannes-Apokalypse.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Bede,the Venerable, Saint,673-735.

Wallis, Faith.

Date of Transaction

20200823061400.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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