This volume, with its brilliant introduction, will contribute greatly to an understanding of the theological debates and movements of thought in the Church in Europe at the turn of the eighth century.
ABR 65:2
[Faith Wallis's] translation is accurate and animated and she has done a splendid job of situating the work in the context of Bede's early writings on time and the millennium. Michael Lapidge Now Faith Wallis, known for her Bedan scholarship, especially for Bede’s The Reckoning of Time, has produced a translation of the Commentary with introduction and very informative notes that superbly complements Gryson’s edition. Her accurate translation of Bede’s work along with an informative commentary condenses Gryson’s French and Latin notes and adds some additional references. Wallis’s translation, besides being accurate and occasionally adding in brackets Bede’s Latin wording, has the advantage of indicating by the use of italics and notes when Bede incorporates within his commentary (as he very frequently does in this early work) comments by patristic authorities such as Tyconius, Primasius, Gregory, and Augustine; her book also provides a Select Bibliography and an excellent Index of Sources and Parallel Passages. A scholar who has Gryson’s Latin edition and Wallis’s detailed introduction and annotated translation at hand will be eminently equipped to read, understand, and reflect on Bede’s Commentary on Revelation. George Hardin Brown, Digressus 13 (2013)
George Hardin Brown
Digressus 13 (2013)