I am happy to announce that my edition and translation of An Anonymous Irish Gloss on the Apocalypse. Brepols Library of Christian Sources 14 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025) will be out on August 1. However, one can pre-order a copy on Amazon. Click here for the link.
About 700 A.D. an anonymous Irish teacher wrote this gloss on the Apocalypse. Here it is reconstructed and translated for the first time. The Latin text with interfacing English translation depicts how the author understood the 144,000 sealed, the beast, the two witnesses, the millennium, the New Jerusalem, and other visions of the Book of Revelation.
The Introduction includes sections entitled Discovery of the Gloss and Observations by Scholars, Reconstruction of the Gloss, Style, Purpose, Audience, and Circulation. Christo-centrism and Historical References, The Use of Tyconius, Irish Features, Theological and Practical Concerns, Eschatology, and Sources and Date.
The book also contains some very informative appendices. These include “Lost Apocalypse Commentaries, 170-700 CE,” listing the many commentaries on Revelation from early Christianity that have been lost and of which only fragments are known; “The Lost Beginning of Tyconius’s Exposition of the Apocalypse,” showing how Tyconius most likely interpreted Rev 1:1-11; and the Latin text with English translation of “A Pseudo-Isidore Prologue to the Apocalypse of the Apostle John.”
If you are interested in interpretation of the Book of Revelation, early and medieval Apocalypse commentaries, or Tyconian studies, I hope you will order a copy.