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.

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).

Table des matières :

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Content, Christo-centrism, and Historical References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 Two Appendices and Two Related Texts

An Anonymous Irish Gloss on the Apocalypse: Text, Translation, and Appendices

A pseudo-Isidore, Prologue to the Apocalypse of the Apostle John: Introduction,　Text, and Translation

The Seven Seals in Questions or Glosses on the Gospel:　Introduction, Translation, and Notes

Bibliography

Index of Scripture

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Modern Authors

General Index

Informations pratiques :

Francis X. Gumerlock, An Anonymous Irish Gloss on the Apocalypse, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 ; 1 vol., 230 p. (Brepols Library of Christian Sources, 14). ISBN : 978-2-503-61788-6. Prix : € 65,00.

Source : Brepols