Joseph Mede

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joseph Mede was an English scholar with a wide range of interests. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow from 1613. He is now remembered as a biblical scholar. He was also a naturalist and Egyptologist. He was a Hebraist, and became Lecturer of Greek. His Clavis Apocalyptica was a widely influential work on the interpretation of the Book of Revelation. It projected the end of the world by 1716: possibly in 1654. Christopher Hill considers that Mede deliberately refrained from publication. Posthumously were published interpretation of the Book of Daniel, and The Apostasy of Latter Times. On demons, he took the position that possession was to be explained as mental illness. His collected Works were published in 1665, editor John Worthington