Interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the early Middle Ages has received much scholarly attention, especially the commentaries from the sixth through ninth centuries. Did you ever wonder how Christians in the tenth century interpreted Revelation? My essay, entitled “Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Tenth Century,” was recently published as Chapter 8 in the Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic… Read more →
New Article. An article written by me, entitled “The Rapture in an Eleventh-Century Text,” was published in the journal Bibliotheca Sacra 176 (Jan.-March 2019): 81-91. It discusses a Bulgarian writing from about the year 1070 called The Narration of the Holy Prophet Isaiah about the Years to Come and the Kings and the Antichrist. It describes the elect being lifted… Read more →
First, to all of our readers and visitors, I wish you a blessed New Year. Concerning books and articles to be published in 2019, this spring I look forward to the release of The Carolingian Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Theodulf and Smaragdus published by Medieval Institute Press. It will contain English translations of the Apocalypse commentary of Theodulf of Orleans from the… Read more →