Faith Wallis is Professor Emerita at McGill University in Montreal. Her research focuses on the textual and manuscript transmission of medical and scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages. Her many books include Bede: Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (with Calvin B. Kendall, 2024), Isidore of Seville: On the Nature of Things (2016), Bede: Commentary on Revelation (2013), all in the Liverpool University Press Translated Texts for Historians series.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Bede and the Latin Tradition of Exegesis of Revelation1.1 The Roots of Bede’s Major Exegetical Theme1.2 Victorinus of Pettau1.3 Apocalyptic Retreats and Revivals in the Fourth Century1.4 Tyconius1.5 The Tyconian Tradition from Augustine to the End of theSixth Century2. Bede’s Immediate Sources and How He Used Them2.1 ‘Commaticum interpretandi genus’2.2 A Mosaic of Quotations2.3 Reconstructing Bede’s Use of Tyconius2.4 The Occlusion of Primasius2.5 Did Bede Read Caesarius?2.6 Bede’s Borrowings from Augustine2.7 Bede Reads Jerome and Gregory2.8 Was Bede’s Exegesis Influenced by Visual Sources?2.9 Bede and the Text of the Bible3. Date and Circumstances of Composition3.1 The Significance of the Date of Composition3.2 The Commentary on Revelation and the Preface to the Commentary on Acts3.3 Obstrepentes causae?3.4 An Apocalyptic Eighth Century?4. Shape and Style of the Commentary on Revelation4.1 The Poem of Bede the Priest4.2 Bede’s Preface: The Structure of Revelation and the ‘periochae’4.3 Bede’s Preface: The Methodological Framework4.4. The Unscheduled Future: How Bede Shapes the Meaning of Revelation4.5 Judgement and Reform5. Bede’s Commentary on Revelation: Transmission and Translation5.1 Transmission in Manuscript5.2 The Commentary in Print5.3 Principles Governing the Present TranslationBede: Commentary on RevelationThe Poem of Bede the PriestPrefaceBook 1Book 2Book 3Appendix: The capitula lectionum on Revelation Ascribed to BedeSelect BibliographyIndex of Sources and ParallelsGeneral Index

Now Faith Wallis, known for her Bedan scholarship, especially for Bede’s The Reckoning of Time, has produced a translation of the Commentary with introduction and very informative notes that superbly complements Gryson’s edition. Her accurate translation of Bede’s work along with an informative commentary condenses Gryson’s French and Latin notes and adds some additional references. Wallis’s translation, besides being accurate and occasionally adding in brackets Bede’s Latin wording, has the advantage of indicating by the use of italics and notes when Bede incorporates within his commentary (as he very frequently does in this early work) comments by patristic authorities such as Tyconius, Primasius, Gregory, and Augustine; her book also provides a Select Bibliography and an excellent Index of Sources and Parallel Passages. A scholar who has Gryson’s Latin edition and Wallis’s detailed introduction and annotated translation at hand will be eminently equipped to read, understand, and reflect on Bede’s Commentary on Revelation.George Hardin Brown, Digressus 13 (2013)

Faith Wallis is Professor Emerita at McGill University in Montreal. Her research focuses on the textual and manuscript transmission of medical and scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages. Her many books include Bede: Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (with Calvin B. Kendall, 2024), Isidore of Seville: On the Nature of Things (2016), Bede: Commentary on Revelation (2013), all in the Liverpool University Press Translated Texts for Historians series.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Bede and the Latin Tradition of Exegesis of Revelation1.1 The Roots of Bede’s Major Exegetical Theme1.2 Victorinus of Pettau1.3 Apocalyptic Retreats and Revivals in the Fourth Century1.4 Tyconius1.5 The Tyconian Tradition from Augustine to the End of theSixth Century2. Bede’s Immediate Sources and How He Used Them2.1 ‘Commaticum interpretandi genus’2.2 A Mosaic of Quotations2.3 Reconstructing Bede’s Use of Tyconius2.4 The Occlusion of Primasius2.5 Did Bede Read Caesarius?2.6 Bede’s Borrowings from Augustine2.7 Bede Reads Jerome and Gregory2.8 Was Bede’s Exegesis Influenced by Visual Sources?2.9 Bede and the Text of the Bible3. Date and Circumstances of Composition3.1 The Significance of the Date of Composition3.2 The Commentary on Revelation and the Preface to the Commentary on Acts3.3 Obstrepentes causae?3.4 An Apocalyptic Eighth Century?4. Shape and Style of the Commentary on Revelation4.1 The Poem of Bede the Priest4.2 Bede’s Preface: The Structure of Revelation and the ‘periochae’4.3 Bede’s Preface: The Methodological Framework4.4. The Unscheduled Future: How Bede Shapes the Meaning of Revelation4.5 Judgement and Reform5. Bede’s Commentary on Revelation: Transmission and Translation5.1 Transmission in Manuscript5.2 The Commentary in Print5.3 Principles Governing the Present TranslationBede: Commentary on RevelationThe Poem of Bede the PriestPrefaceBook 1Book 2Book 3Appendix: The capitula lectionum on Revelation Ascribed to BedeSelect BibliographyIndex of Sources and ParallelsGeneral Index

Now Faith Wallis, known for her Bedan scholarship, especially for Bede’s The Reckoning of Time, has produced a translation of the Commentary with introduction and very informative notes that superbly complements Gryson’s edition. Her accurate translation of Bede’s work along with an informative commentary condenses Gryson’s French and Latin notes and adds some additional references. Wallis’s translation, besides being accurate and occasionally adding in brackets Bede’s Latin wording, has the advantage of indicating by the use of italics and notes when Bede incorporates within his commentary (as he very frequently does in this early work) comments by patristic authorities such as Tyconius, Primasius, Gregory, and Augustine; her book also provides a Select Bibliography and an excellent Index of Sources and Parallel Passages. A scholar who has Gryson’s Latin edition and Wallis’s detailed introduction and annotated translation at hand will be eminently equipped to read, understand, and reflect on Bede’s Commentary on Revelation.George Hardin Brown, Digressus 13 (2013)

Faith Wallis is Professor Emerita at McGill University in Montreal. Her research focuses on the textual and manuscript transmission of medical and scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages. Her many books include Bede: Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (with Calvin B. Kendall, 2024), Isidore of Seville: On the Nature of Things (2016), Bede: Commentary on Revelation (2013), all in the Liverpool University Press Translated Texts for Historians series.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Bede and the Latin Tradition of Exegesis of Revelation1.1 The Roots of Bede’s Major Exegetical Theme1.2 Victorinus of Pettau1.3 Apocalyptic Retreats and Revivals in the Fourth Century1.4 Tyconius1.5 The Tyconian Tradition from Augustine to the End of theSixth Century2. Bede’s Immediate Sources and How He Used Them2.1 ‘Commaticum interpretandi genus’2.2 A Mosaic of Quotations2.3 Reconstructing Bede’s Use of Tyconius2.4 The Occlusion of Primasius2.5 Did Bede Read Caesarius?2.6 Bede’s Borrowings from Augustine2.7 Bede Reads Jerome and Gregory2.8 Was Bede’s Exegesis Influenced by Visual Sources?2.9 Bede and the Text of the Bible3. Date and Circumstances of Composition3.1 The Significance of the Date of Composition3.2 The Commentary on Revelation and the Preface to the Commentary on Acts3.3 Obstrepentes causae?3.4 An Apocalyptic Eighth Century?4. Shape and Style of the Commentary on Revelation4.1 The Poem of Bede the Priest4.2 Bede’s Preface: The Structure of Revelation and the ‘periochae’4.3 Bede’s Preface: The Methodological Framework4.4. The Unscheduled Future: How Bede Shapes the Meaning of Revelation4.5 Judgement and Reform5. Bede’s Commentary on Revelation: Transmission and Translation5.1 Transmission in Manuscript5.2 The Commentary in Print5.3 Principles Governing the Present TranslationBede: Commentary on RevelationThe Poem of Bede the PriestPrefaceBook 1Book 2Book 3Appendix: The capitula lectionum on Revelation Ascribed to BedeSelect BibliographyIndex of Sources and ParallelsGeneral Index

Now Faith Wallis, known for her Bedan scholarship, especially for Bede’s The Reckoning of Time, has produced a translation of the Commentary with introduction and very informative notes that superbly complements Gryson’s edition. Her accurate translation of Bede’s work along with an informative commentary condenses Gryson’s French and Latin notes and adds some additional references. Wallis’s translation, besides being accurate and occasionally adding in brackets Bede’s Latin wording, has the advantage of indicating by the use of italics and notes when Bede incorporates within his commentary (as he very frequently does in this early work) comments by patristic authorities such as Tyconius, Primasius, Gregory, and Augustine; her book also provides a Select Bibliography and an excellent Index of Sources and Parallel Passages. A scholar who has Gryson’s Latin edition and Wallis’s detailed introduction and annotated translation at hand will be eminently equipped to read, understand, and reflect on Bede’s Commentary on Revelation.George Hardin Brown, Digressus 13 (2013)