Eusebius the Evangelist - Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity

Eusebius the Evangelist analyzes Eusebius of Caesarea's fourth-century reconfiguration of the Gospels as a window into broader questions of technology and textuality in the ancient Mediterranean.

List of contents

• Preface


• Text and Translation of Eusebius' Epistle to Carpianus


• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Is Eusebius Also Among the Evangelists?


• A Practical Introduction: Reading, Reception, and Use


• Eusebius of Caesarea and His Context


• Using the Eusebian Apparatus


• Histories of Gospel Scholarship


• Overview of Argument


• Chapter 2: Technology


• Textual Machines


• Prefatory Maps


• Columnar Tables


• Knowing Gospels Differently


• Chapter 3: Gospel Writing


• Continuity and Innovation


• Gospel Production from Mark to Eusebius


• Reconfiguring the Gospels


• The Gospel According to Eusebius


• Chapter 4: Creative Juxtaposition


• History and Critique


• How Eusebius Reads Gospels


• Similar Things


• Rewriting Gospel Relationship


• Rediscovering the Purpose of the Eusebian Apparatus


• Poetic Geography


• Chapter 5: Reading Eusebius' Gospels


• Reception as Evidence


• Magnitudes of Reception


• Traces of Reading


• Use and Meaning


• Chapter 6: Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Jeremiah Coogan is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California.

Summary

Eusebius the Evangelist analyzes Eusebius of Caesarea's fourth-century reconfiguration of the Gospels as a window into broader questions of technology and textuality in the ancient Mediterranean.

Additional text

[Coogan's] wide use of evidence (with excellent images) and supple methods open numerous lines of research that subsequent scholars should pursue.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremiah Coogan, Jeremiah (Assistant Professor of New Testa Coogan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2022
• EAN: 9780197580042
• ISBN: 978-0-19-758004-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Ancient, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies