Ancient Christian Interpretations of "Violent Texts" in The Apocalypse

Edited by Joseph Verheyden, Tobias Nicklas and Andreas Merkt. In Cooperation with Mark Grundeken.

The present volume offers the proceedings of a conference that was held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2009 and was organised by the general editors of the Novum Testamentum Patristicum. The conference focused on how early Christian and Patristic authors have coped with all these many passages that deal with various sorts of violence. The volume contains 7 essays in Englisch and 6 essays in German Language on most of the important commentators, Origen, Tyconius, Lactance, Victorin of Pettau, and those of a somewhat later age, Andreas of Caesarea, Oecumenius, and Bede, but also looks at the reception history on a larger scale. It also deals with issues of method in reading the Book of Revelation, with important themes (the 1000-year reign), the Jewish background of some of these motifs, and the reception of Patristic thought in the most important medieval commentator of the book, Joachim of Fiore. With contributions by Julia Eva Wannenmacher, Pieter G.R. de Villiers, Stefan Alkier, Ilaria Ramelli, Martin Hasitschka, Christopher Rowland, Jan Dochhorn, Konrad Huber, Harald Buchinger, Luca Arcari, Eugenia Constantinou and Ian Boxall. 313 Seiten, gebunden (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments; Band 92/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear