Exposition of the Apocalypse

Author:   Tyconius of Carthage ,  Francis X. Gumerlock ,  David C. Robinson
Publisher:   The Catholic University of America Press
Volume:   134
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9780813229560


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   30 April 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Exposition of the Apocalypse


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The Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius of Carthage (fl. 380) was pivotal in the history of interpretation of the Book of Revelation. While expositors of the second and third centuries viewed the Apocalypse of John, or Book of Revelation, as mainly about the time of Antichrist and the end of the world, in the late fourth century Tyconius interpreted John’s visions as figurative of the struggles facing the Church throughout the entire period between the Incarnation and the Second Coming of Christ. Tyconius’s “ecclesiastical” reading of the Apocalypse was highly regarded by early medieval commentators like Caesarius of Arles, Primasius of Hadrumetum, Bede, and Beatus of Liebana, who often quoted from Tyconius’s Exposition in their own Apocalypse commentaries. Unfortunately no complete manuscript of the Exposition by Tyconius has survived. A number of recent scholars, however, believed that a large portion of his Exposition could be reconstructed from citations of it in the aforementioned early medieval writers; and this task was undertaken by Monsignor Roger Gryson. Gryson’s edition, a reconstruction of the Expositio Apocalypseos of Tyconius, was published in 2011 in Corpus Christianorum Series Latina. The present translation of that reconstructed text, with introduction and notes, exhibits Tyconius’s unique non-apocalyptic approach to the Book of Revelation. It also shows that throughout the Exposition Tyconius made use of interpretive rules that he had laid out in an earlier work on hermeneutics, the Book of Rules, strongly suggesting that Tyconius wrote his Exposition as a companion to his Book of Rules. Thus, the Exposition served as an exemplar of how those rules would apply to interpretation of even the most intriguing of biblical texts, the Apocalypse.

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Author:   Tyconius of Carthage ,  Francis X. Gumerlock ,  David C. Robinson
Publisher:   The Catholic University of America Press
Imprint:   The Catholic University of America Press
Volume:   134
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.415kg
ISBN:  

9780813229560


ISBN 10:   0813229561
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   30 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Francis X. Gumerlock teaches Latin in the Archdiocese of Denver and is visiting professor at Colorado College, the University of Colorado, and Providence Theological Seminary. He is author of nine books, mainly translated texts from early and medieval Christianity, including Early Latin Commentaries on the Apocalypse (2016) and The Seven Seals of the Apocalypse: Medieval Texts in Translation (2009). David C. Robinson serves as senior pastor of Westminster Chapel in Toronto. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the relationship between Tyconius’s Book of Rules and his Apocalypse commentary.

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