The British Academy: Lectures on the Apocalypse

by Robert Henry Charles

Publishers:

Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press

, 1922

Overview

In the Lectures on the Apocalypse, The Schweich Lectures for 1919, R. H. Charles provides three lectures he delivered at the British Academy. Charles first discusses the different methods of interpretation in the early churches about the Apocalypse. In the second lecture, Charles examines the authorship of Revelation 20–22. The third lecture analyzes the critical questions connected with manuscripts and versions of the book of Revelation.

Product Details

• Title: The British Academy: Lectures on the Apocalypse
• Author: Robert Henry Charles
• Series: The Schweich Lectures 1919
• Publishers: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1922
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Revelation › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Resource ID: LLS:LCTRSPCLYPS1919
• Resource Type: text.monograph.lecture
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-14T02:30:44Z

About Robert Henry Charles

R. H. Charles (1865–1943) is recognized as one of the leading figures in Enoch scholarship, and his masterly translation remains the standard edition of the text in English. An authority on apocalyptic literature, he became canon at Westminster Abbey in 1913 and an archdeacon in 1919. Charles is also the author of A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, vols. 1 and 2, and The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament.