Andreas of Caesarea

Andreas of Caesarea (* 563, † 637) was Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, and author of an important commentary on the Apocalypse.

Importance

Andreas of Caesarea wrote a commentary on the Apocalypse, which is important for the history of the text of the Apocalypse. This comment has joined closely to the early Christian exegesis and grappled with the comment Oecumenius. The comment of Andrew must have had a big effect, as it was narrated in many manuscripts. Only around 895 of Caesarea wrote Aretha's new Apocalypse commentary, but strongly based on that of Andrew.

Works

Published works are

• Commentary on the Apocalypse; in: J. Schmid: Studies in the History of the Greek Apocalypse text. Munich in 1955 and Migne: Patrologiae Graeca 106, 215-457
• Therapeutike; Fragments in: F. Diekamp: Analecta Patristica. Rome 1938. 161-172 page

There are no German translations. Dr. Eugenia Constantinou created as part of their doctoral thesis submitted in 2008 an English translation of the Apocalypse commentary, which was published in late 2011 on its own:

• Andrew of Caesarea, Commentary on the Apocalypse, translated by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou, Fathers of the Church series, Catholic University of America Press, volume 123, 2011. ISBN 9780813201238