REVELATION
Translated and edited by
David Burr
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
4035 Park East Court SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546
© 2019 David Burr
All rights reserved
Published 2019
ISBN 978-0-8028-2226-0
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Burr, David, 1934- translator, editor.
Title: The book of Revelation / translated and edited by David Burr.
Description: Grand Rapids : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019. | Series: The Bible in medieval tradition | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “The author describes and provides freshly translated examples of medieval exegesis of the Book of Revelation from Richard of St. Victor through Nicholas of Lyra (from the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries)”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019022634 | ISBN 9780802822260 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Bible. Revelation—Commentaries. | Bible. Revelation—Commentaries—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC BS2825.53 .B77 2019 | DDC 228/.060902—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022634
THE BIBLE IN MEDIEVAL TRADITION
GENERAL EDITORS
H. Lawrence Bond†
Ian Christopher Levy
Philip D. W. Krey
Thomas Ryan
The major intent of the series The Bible in Medieval Tradition is to reacquaint the Church with its rich history of biblical interpretation and with the contemporary applicability of this history, especially for academic study, spiritual formation, preaching, discussion groups, and individual reflection. Each volume focuses on a particular biblical book or set of books and provides documentary evidence of the most significant ways in which that work was treated in the course of medieval biblical interpretation.
The series takes its shape in dialogue both with the special traditions of medieval exegesis and with the interests of contemporary readers. Each volume in the series comprises fresh translations of several commentaries. The selections are lengthy and, in most cases, have never been available in English before.
Compared to patristic material, relatively little medieval exegesis has been translated. While medieval interpretations do resemble their patristic forebears, they do not simply replicate them. Indeed, they are produced at new times and in new situations. As a result, they lend insight into the changing culture and scholarship of the Middle Ages and comprise a storehouse of the era’s theological and spiritual riches that can enhance contemporary reading of the Bible. They, therefore, merit their own consideration, to which this series is meant to contribute.
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About The Book of Revelation (The Bible in Medieval Tradition)Medieval exegesis of the Apocalypse from Richard of St. Victor through Nicolas of Lyra. In this volume Franciscan scholar David Burr concentrates on the mendicant contribution to the book of Revelation. Clashing interpretive strategies developed, mirroring authority structures in the context of the new institutional framework of the university, the new methodology of scholasticism, and expanding papal authority. By the early fourteenth century a clear victory of one strategy and one structure emerges in the work of Pierre Auriol and Nicholas of Lyra, and, conversely, the defeat of another in the posthumous condemnations of Petrus Iohannis Olivi and, to some extent, Joachim of Fiore. This is the fifth volume of The Bible in Medieval Tradition (BMT), a series designed to reconnect the church with part of its rich history of biblical interpretation. |
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