Posted by Georg S. Adamsen on July 3, 2008
Drobner, Hubertus R. Lehrbuch der Patrologie. 2nd revised and expaned ed. Frankfurt am Main; New York: P. Lang, 2004. 532 pp.
Drobner, Hubertus R. The Fathers of the Church: A Comprehensive Introduction: With Bibliographies Updated and Expanded for the English Edition by William Harmless, and Hubertus R. Drobner. Translated by Siegfried S. Schatzmann. English ed. ed. Originally published as Lehrbuch der Patrologie. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1994. Repr. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2007. lvi + 632 pp.
Drobner’s textbook is not a comprehensive dictionary, perhaps not even a comprensive introduction. It is a textbook as the German title indicates. Drobner provides very helpful introductions to the first eight centuries and to the most important Church fathers. A number of those who have written on Revelation are not included, however, e.g., Victorinus of Petovio and Caesarius of Arles.
The English edition is more than a translation, as the subtitle states. A helpful review by Vilhelm Pratscher (pdf) is published by Review of Biblical Literature. The Table of Contents of the English edition is provided by the Library of Congress.
In his amazon.com review, Dr. William Varner, the author of The Way of the Didache: The First Christian Handbook, questions whether it is really “a comprehensive introduction,” as most entries on the church fathers are covered in only one or two pages.
Nevertheless, Varner concludes:
This volume will become THE source to be consulted for “further reading” about the Fathers. But if the reader is looking for an introduction to the thought of the fathers, he can be better served by the old classic, Patrology by Johannes Quasten, or even better by the recent two volume work by Moreschini and Norelli, Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature.
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Posted by Georg S. Adamsen on January 20, 2008
Jacques Paul Migne (1800-1875) is famous for his Patrologia cursus completus which consists of a Latin series in 221 volumes and eventually a bilingual Greek-Latin edition of the Greek texts in 165 volumes. See more at Wikipedia.
Many of the volumes are now superseded by critical editions. But some volumes are not. Useful are also the indices that allow us to identify sources cited.
The on-line edition is published at Documenta Catholica Omnia.
See also Migne’s Patrologia Graeca in Greek Unicode.
Hattip: Antonio Lombatti over at Ancient World Bloggers Group
Posted by Georg S. Adamsen on January 7, 2008
Over at the Thoughts on Antiquity blog you can read about Migne’s Patrologia Graeca in Unicode via PDF: See here.
Danny Zacharias over at Deinde.org - Discussion and resources for Biblical scholars - points us to this useful directory page in his Migne treasures.
See also Migne’s Patrologia - a complete on-line edition.
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http://www.apokaliptikum.lap.hu
This quite extensive resource collection is compiled by Dr. Hubbes Laszlo.
Although it is in the Hungarian language, some headlines are translated, and it is certainly possible to find quite a number of useful resources, even if you do not know Hungarian. As the sample shows. As Dr. Laszlo informed me, “the majority of the collection points to English sites.”
Especially relevant is the following:
Apocalypse Commentaries
Apocalypse Definitions
Apocalyptic Bibliographies
Apocalyptic in Arts
Apocalyptic in Music
Apocalyptic Resources Online
Apocalyptic Studies
Apocalyptic Symbology and Iconography
Posted by Georg S. Adamsen on January 5, 2008
Kretschmar, Georg: Die Offenbarung des Johannes: Die Geschichte ihrer Auslegung im 1. Jahrtausend. Calwer Theologische Monographien, B9. Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1985. 164 pp.
Kretschmar’s book is not only a presentation of its history of interpretation throughout the first millennium. It also presents the author’s view on introductory matters and its overall interpretation.
Contents (apart from foreword, list of abbreviations and abbreviated references)
I. Jewish apocalyptic (sic) as the background of traditional material for Revelation (pp. 11-18)
1. Apocalyptic as prophecy
2. Book of Daniel
3. The spread of apocalyptic in Judaism
II. The pictorial Book of Promises (pp. 19-68)
1. Christian apocalyptic
2. The origins of Revelation
3. Intention and characteristics
4. The structure of Revelation
5. The imagery of Revelation
III. Revelation in Early Christianity (pp. 69-79)
1. Early Christian apocalyptic and Revelation
2. Christian chiliasm
3. Gnostic reception
4. Irenaeus and Hippolytus, Methodius
5. Disputed canonicity
IV. Revelation in the Greek Church and the rest of the Orient (pp. 80-90)
1. Acceptance and influence of Revelation
2. Christian apocalyptic and interpretation of history besides Revelation
3. The great commentaries after the sixth century: Oecumenius; Andrew of Caesarea; Arethas of Caesarea; Dionysios bar Saliba
V. Revelation in the Latin Church (pp. 91-115)
1. Early Christian heritage: Victorinus of Poetovio
2. Church Controversy: Tyconius and Augustine
3. Learned collectors: Jerome, Cassiodor, Primasius
4. Results and heritage
VI. Revelation in the Middle Ages of the West (pp. 116-160)
1. Collecting and sieving the ancient heritage
a) Britain: Beda
b) Spain: Beatus
c) Italy: Ambrosius Autpertus
2. Revelation in the Carolingian Renaissance
a) The Carolingian Renaissance
b) Book paintings
c) Commentators
3. The High Middle Ages
a) Ottonic, imperial theology
b) Anti-Christ and the end of the world
c) Revelation in the Investiture Controversy
d) The Crusades and the theology of the House of Hohenstaufen
4. Exposition of Scripture and interpretation of history
a) The methods of theology
b) Experience of history and interpretation of Scripture
c) Epilogue: Change into a new chiliasm
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See Kretschmar, Die Offenbarung des Johannes.
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Posted by Georg S. Adamsen on December 29, 2007
Taushev, Averky. The Apocalypse: In the Teachings of Ancient Christianity. 2nd ed. Translated and edited, with Annotation, an Introduction, and a Life of the Author, by Seraphim Rose. Platina, California: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1995. 306 pp.
This commentary, a translation of an Russian original by Seraphim Rose, is based on the commentary by St. Andrew of Caesarea.
One of the appendices critiques “neo-chiliasm,” a teaching that was condemned at the ecumenical council in AD 381, Taushev states (pp. 285-9).
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