Andreas of Caesarea

bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Karl Krumbacher assigned him to the first half of the sixth century. He is variously placed by other scholars, from the fifth to the ninth century.^[1]

Oikoumenios.)^[3] Most subsequent Eastern Christian commentators of the Book of Revelation have drawn heavily upon Andrew and his commentary,^[4] which was preserved in about 100 Greek manuscripts,^[5] and was also translated into Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonic.^[6] Andrew's most important contribution was that he preserved many existing Eastern traditions associated with Revelation, both oral and written.^[7] His commentary was so influential that it preserved a specific text type for Revelation, known as the Andreas type.^[5]