Joseph Mede[1] (1586 in Berden – 1639) was an English scholar with a wide range of interests. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1613.[2] He is now remembered as a biblical scholar.[3] He was also a naturalist and Egyptologist. He was a Hebraist, and became Lecturer of Greek.[4]
^Joseph Meade, Joseph Mead.
^"Meade, Joseph (MD603J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^Book of Revelation in England
^Concise Dictionary of National Biography, under Joseph Mead.
JosephMede (1586 in Berden – 1639) was an English scholar with a wide range of interests. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became...
agreed that the First Seal opened there upon the death of Christ. Puritan JosephMede (1627) associated the opening of the First Seal to year 73, during the...
Apocalyptica (1627). For a recent monograph on Mede's eschatology, see Jeffrey K. Jue, Heaven Upon Earth: JosephMede (1586–1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism...
Millenarianism, (Springer, 2000). Jue, Jeffrey K. Heaven Upon Earth: JosephMede and the Legacy of Mllenarianism, (Springer, 2006). Kaplan, Jeffrey. Radical...
(such as Francis Kett, Edmund Bunny, Thomas Draxe, Thomas Brightman, JosephMede, William Perkins, Richard Sibbes, Thomas Goodwin, William Strong, William...
Nebulous Earth. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44171-1. Byrne, Joseph Patrick (2008). Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues, Volume...
out in Heaven. Historicist view In the traditional historicist view, JosephMede (1627) identified the war of Michael the Archangel and the Dragon as...
representative figures of the period were Johannes Piscator, Thomas Brightman, JosephMede, Johannes Heinrich Alsted, and John Amos Comenius. Like most English...
(1516–1590), JosephMede (1586–1639), and John Lightfoot (1602–1675), particularly emphasized the eschatological theory of four monarchies. Mede and other...
identified the figure of Dodanim with the Dardanus of Greek mythology, while JosephMede equated him with the Jupiter Dodonaeus who had an oracle at Dodona. Kenneth...
Elliott to part company with his great forerunner in interpretation, JosephMede. For Mede, the angel's little book was a "new and distinct prophecy" concerning...
Irenicism and the Millennium: Mede and the Hartlib Circle, in Jeffrey K. Jue (editor), Heaven Upon Earth: JosephMede (1586–1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism...
Mather Richard Mather John Maynard (1604–1690) John Mayo (minister) JosephMede Walter Mildmay John Milton John More Matthew Newcomen John Norton (Puritan...
Franciscus Gomarus. Maresius attempted to undermine the appeal to the work of JosephMede made by Serrarius. Serrarius was also one of the loudest critics of Lodewijk...
toleration of their faith in 1616. Lawyer and MP, Henry Finch and the scholar JosephMede both wrote of the benefits of the conversion of the Jews in the 1620s...
chiliastarum with views on millennarianism. Walaeus had corresponded with JosephMede, and his attitude to Cerinthus, Johannes Piscator and Johann Heinrich...
which the papacy would receive an ultimately fatal blow. Fleming follows JosephMede, but set the beginning of Antichrist at 768 AD. Fleming published: The...
posthumously, proved influential. According to William M. Lamont, Brightman and JosephMede were the two most important revisionists of the interpretation and eschatology...
distinct focus on the period of the Maccabees (2nd Century BC). Like JosephMede (1586-1638), Vitringa believed wholeheartedly that the Millennium was...
Brightman view of the seven churches, the synchronicity principle of JosephMede, and several of the ideas of Isaac Newton; The Christian's use of The...
in the belly of a fish. On June 23, 1626, scholar and theologian Dr. JosephMede (or Mead) of Christ's College, Cambridge, was walking through Cambridge's...
words for the Messiah of Handel. This book also took up suggestions of JosephMede on multiple authorship of the Book of Zechariah. He was killed in the...
exchange relating to chronology. His contemporaries ranked him with JosephMede and Francis Bacon. His ultimate poverty, certainly exaggerated, furnished...
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