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L'évangile selon saint Luc (1,1-9,50)
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ISBN: 2830906179 2830910087 2830908309 9782830912357 9782830912616 9782830913552 2830912357 9782830906172 9782830908305 9782830910087 2830913558 2830912616 Year: 1991 Volume: 3c Publisher: Genève Labor et Fides

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Homiliae in evangelia
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ISBN: 2503014119 2503014127 2503030009 9782503014111 Year: 1999 Volume: 141 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols


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Bede : commentary on revelation
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ISBN: 9781846318450 9781846318443 1846318440 1846318459 Year: 2013 Volume: 58 Publisher: Liverpool Liverpool University Press

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The Commentary on Revelation is Bede's first venture into Biblical exegesis - an ambitious choice for a young monastic scholar in a newly Christianized land. Its subject matter - the climax of the great story of creation and redemption, of history and of time itself - adds to the Commentary's intrinsic importance, for these themes lie at the heart of Bede's concerns and of his achievement as a historian, exegete, scholar, and preacher. But Bede was also a man of his age. When he penned the Commentary around 703, speculation and anxiety about the end of the world was in the air. According to conventional chronology, almost 6,000 years had passed since creation. If for God 'one day ... is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day' (2 Peter 3:8), the world was destined to last six millennia, corresponding to the six days of creation. The end, then, was close. Bede vigorously opposed the temptation to calculate the time of the end. The Commentary argues that Revelation is not a literal prophecy, but a symbolic reflection on the perennial struggle of the Church in this world. At the same time, the young Bede is starting to shape his own account of how the end-times would unfold. This translation, prefaced by a substantial Introduction, will be of interest to students of medieval religious and cultural history, of Anglo-Saxon England, and of the history of Biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages."--Jacket.

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