Annotated bibliography

I have been getting a lot of questions about what the heck an annotated bibliography looks like.  I will be passing out examples tomorrow, but here is a sample from a paper I wrote some years ago in graduate school:

McGinn, Bernard.  “Introduction: John’s Apocalypse and the Apocalyptic Mentality.”  In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 3-19.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Bernard McGinn’s chapter provides the reader with a three-fold introduction to the book.  First, McGinn deals with the Jewish eschatological tradition of the Second Temple period that John emerges from.  He describes how most Jewish Apocalypses fall into either a vertical (cosmic) or horizontal (historic/temporal) revelatory models.  Second, McGinn describes how John both couches himself in and breaks from this tradition.  Third, how John and his work have been received and analyzed.  McGinn details the three major modes of apocalyptic exegesis in the middle ages: linear-prophetic (details history between John and the End), non-linear theological treatise favored by Augustine, and the cyclic or repetitive (a series of complex and repetitive patterns before the End) forwarded by Joachim of Fiore.  McGinn closes on the note that these were an attempt to domesticate the Apocalypse to fit a more spiritual model of the Early Church.