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Brepols Library of Christian Sources, vol. 14
An Anonymous Irish Gloss on the Apocalypse
Francis X. Gumerlock
- Pages: approx. 185 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:15 tables b/w.
- Language(s):English, Latin
- Publication Year:2025
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61788-6
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This Anonymous Irish Gloss on the Apocalypse, previously regarded as a "lost commentary" is reconstructed and translated here for the first time.
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BIO
Francis X. Gumerlock (Ph.D. historical theology, St. Louis University, 2004) is author of thirteen books, most of which include translations of early medieval Apocalypse commentaries, including: Cassiodorus, St. Gregory the Great, and Anonymous Greek Scholia. Writings on the Apocalypse (2022), Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria. Commentary on the Apocalypse (2021), Carolingian Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Theodulf and Smaragdus (2019), and Tyconius. Exposition of the Apocalypse (2017).
Summary
About 700 AD an anonymous Irish teacher, working in a monastic setting, wrote this gloss on the Apocalypse. Reconstructed from three early medieval commentaries which made use of it, the gloss shows how this early Irish Christian, influenced by the fourth-century Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius of Carthage, interpreted the Book of Revelation. The Latin text with interfacing English translation depicts how the author understood the 144,000 sealed, the beast, the two witnesses, 666, the Battle of Armageddon, the millennium, the New Jerusalem, and other visions of the Book of Revelation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Discovery of the Gloss and Observations by Scholars
Reconstruction of the Gloss
Style, Purpose, Audience, and Circulation
Content, Christo-centrism, and Historical References
The Use of Tyconius
Irish Features
Theological and Practical Concerns
Eschatology
Sources and Date
Note on Appendices
Text &Translation
Appendices
1. Lost Apocalypse Commentaries, 170-700 CE
a. Lost Greek Commentaries on the Apocalypse
b. Lost Latin Commentaries on the Apocalypse
2. The Lost Beginning of Tyconius’s Exposition of the Apocalypse
3. A pseudo-Isidore Prologue to the Apocalypse of the Apostle John
a. Introduction
b. Text and Translation
4. The Seven Seals in Questions or Glosses on the Gospel
a. Introduction
b.Text and Translation
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Holy Scripture
