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Commentary on Revelation

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Commentary on Revelation
Saint Bede the Venerable
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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.

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343

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Commentary on Revelation
2013, Liverpool University Press
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Edition Notes

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

Self-Renewing 2018

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Liverpool
Series
Translated texts for historians -- volume 58, Translated texts for historians -- v. 58.
Other Titles
Bede, Commentary on Revelation

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Dewey Decimal Class
228.07
Library of Congress
BS2825 .B4313 2013, BS2825

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 343 pages
Number of pages
343

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28389726M
ISBN 10
1846318440, 1846318459
ISBN 13
9781846318443, 9781846318450
OCLC/WorldCat
806494289

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