{"id":8117139570982,"title":"Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria: Commentary on the Apocalypse","handle":"pseudo-cyril-of-alexandria-commentary-on-the-apocalypse","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/5689\/files\/Stone_Tower_100x100.png?v=1546616956\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #366b40;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Francis X. Gumerlock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #366b40;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN 9781736865163\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #366b40;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages 145\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eublished in English for the first time, these pages provide an introduction, translation, and transcription of a late-sixth century lecture on Revelation 7–12. Given in an Egyptian monastery by an unknown teacher and written in the Sahidic Coptic dialect, the lecture circulated in the name of Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444). The manuscript copy was discovered in 1910.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHerein titled \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEncomium\u003c\/i\u003e, the commentary manuscript likely derived from the scriptorium in the ancient Egyptian city of Touton. It was donated in the year 861 to the monastery of St. Michael the Archangel at Sopehes, which is today the Egyptian village of Hamuli in southwestern Fayum, though the monastery ceased operations in the early tenth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEncomium\u003c\/i\u003e was part of a lecture series on the Apocalypse, most likely by a visiting monk, teacher, or bishop. The text is probably a transcription of the lecture by one of the hearers and the one lecturing appears to use a translation of the Book of Revelation into Sahidic Coptic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe extensive introduction provides readers with important historical, exegetical, and theological background for understanding this remarkable writing on the Book of Revelation and its reception in sixth-century Egypt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrancis X. “Frank” Gumerlock, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Latin in Colorado. He is the author of nine books, many of which are translations of early and medieval Latin texts on the Book of Revelation and the theology of grace, including \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarolingian Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Theodulf and Smaragdus\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTyconius. Exposition of the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrancesca M. Lecchi, MD, \u003c\/b\u003eis a General Surgery resident at the University of Milan, Italy. She studied Latin under Dr. Gumerlock and worked with him on the translation of the pseudo-Cyril \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCommentary on the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTito Orlandi, PhD, \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus at the Università di Roma La Sapienza. He is the author of numerous books and articles including an Italian translation of the pseudo-Cyril \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCommentary on the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e is his 1981 book \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOmelie copte\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2021-12-20T15:24:23-05:00","created_at":"2023-02-01T15:29:43-05:00","vendor":"Stone Tower Press","type":"Books","tags":["Commentary","Revelations"],"price":2495,"price_min":2495,"price_max":2495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":44350153031974,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781736865163","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria: Commentary on the Apocalypse","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2495,"weight":397,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781736865163","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/Pseduo-Cyril_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1675283383"],"featured_image":"\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/Pseduo-Cyril_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1675283383","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":32829902618918,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.664,"height":2700,"width":1794,"src":"\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/Pseduo-Cyril_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1675283383"},"aspect_ratio":0.664,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/Pseduo-Cyril_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1675283383","width":1794}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/5689\/files\/Stone_Tower_100x100.png?v=1546616956\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #366b40;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Francis X. Gumerlock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #366b40;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN 9781736865163\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #366b40;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages 145\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eublished in English for the first time, these pages provide an introduction, translation, and transcription of a late-sixth century lecture on Revelation 7–12. Given in an Egyptian monastery by an unknown teacher and written in the Sahidic Coptic dialect, the lecture circulated in the name of Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444). The manuscript copy was discovered in 1910.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHerein titled \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEncomium\u003c\/i\u003e, the commentary manuscript likely derived from the scriptorium in the ancient Egyptian city of Touton. It was donated in the year 861 to the monastery of St. Michael the Archangel at Sopehes, which is today the Egyptian village of Hamuli in southwestern Fayum, though the monastery ceased operations in the early tenth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEncomium\u003c\/i\u003e was part of a lecture series on the Apocalypse, most likely by a visiting monk, teacher, or bishop. The text is probably a transcription of the lecture by one of the hearers and the one lecturing appears to use a translation of the Book of Revelation into Sahidic Coptic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe extensive introduction provides readers with important historical, exegetical, and theological background for understanding this remarkable writing on the Book of Revelation and its reception in sixth-century Egypt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrancis X. “Frank” Gumerlock, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Latin in Colorado. He is the author of nine books, many of which are translations of early and medieval Latin texts on the Book of Revelation and the theology of grace, including \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarolingian Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Theodulf and Smaragdus\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTyconius. Exposition of the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrancesca M. Lecchi, MD, \u003c\/b\u003eis a General Surgery resident at the University of Milan, Italy. She studied Latin under Dr. Gumerlock and worked with him on the translation of the pseudo-Cyril \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCommentary on the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: AJensonPro-Regular; color: #387143;\" face=\"AJensonPro-Regular\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTito Orlandi, PhD, \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus at the Università di Roma La Sapienza. He is the author of numerous books and articles including an Italian translation of the pseudo-Cyril \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCommentary on the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e is his 1981 book \u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOmelie copte\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}