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List of contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1: Eusebius' Canon Tables as a Paratext for Ordering Textual Knowledge
- 2: The Origins of Scholarship on the Fourfold Gospel: From Alexandria to Caesarea
- 3: Reading the Gospels with the Eusebian Canon Tables
- 4: Augustine's Usage of the Canon Tables in De Consensu Evangelistarum
- 5: Canon Tables 2.0: The Peshitta Version of the Eusebian Apparatus
- 6: Scholarly Practices: The Eusebian Canon Tables in the Hiberno-Latin Tradition
- 7: Seeing the Salvation of God: Images as Paratext in Armenian Commentaries on the Eusebian Canon Tables
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: A Translation of Eusebius' Letter to Carpianus
- Appendix 2: Eusebian Parallels in Augustine's De consensu evangelistarum
- Appendix 3: The Gospel Synopsis in Codex Climaci Rescriptus and its Possible Connection to Ammonius' Diatessaron-Gospel
- Appendix 4: Theophanes the Grammarian's Note about Canon Tables
- Bibliography
About the author
Matthew R. Crawford is an Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Biblical and Early Christian Studies in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. From 2012 to 2015 he held an AHRC-funded postdoc at Durham University on canonical and non-canonical gospel literature, and from 2013 to 2015 a Junior Research Fellowship from Hatfield College. He is the author of Cyril of Alexandria's Trinitarian Theology of Scripture (2014).
Summary
This study investigates the origins and use of the Canon Tables apparatus, which was included in the four-gospel codex. This reading aid was invented in the early fourth century by Eusebius of Caesarea and represented a milestone achievement both in the history of the book and in the scholarly study of the fourfold gospel.
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Meticulously documented and richly illustrated, [Crawford]'s book on the Eusebian Canon Tables represents a milestone of scholarship, the touchstone for all future studies on the topic.
