Bede: Commentary on Revelation
Faith Wallis
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Description for Bede: Commentary on Revelation
Hardcover. This book presents a fully annotated translation of Bede's earliest Biblical commentary, prefaced by a substantial Introduction that places Bede in the context of Revelation exegesis, and shows how, and why, he chose to expound this notoriously controversial book. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 343 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCF2; HRCG1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 218 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
Series
Translated Texts for Historians
Number of Pages
343
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318443
SKU
V9781846318443
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About Faith Wallis
Faith Wallis is Professor Emerita at McGill University in Montreal. Her research focuses on the textual and manuscript transmission of medical and scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages. Her many books include Bede: Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (with Calvin B. Kendall, 2024), Isidore of Seville: On the Nature of Things (2016), Bede: Commentary on Revelation (2013), all in ... Read more
Reviews for Bede: Commentary on Revelation
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more