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Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations
Eusebius of Caesarea was one of the most significant and voluminous contributors to the development of late antique literary culture. Despite his significance, Eusebius has tended to receive attention more as a source for histories of early Christianity and the Constantinian empire than as a writer and thinker in his own right. He was a compiler and copyist of pagan and Christian texts, collator of a massive chronographical work, commentator on scriptural texts, author of apologetic, historical, educational, and biographical works, and custodian of one of the greatest libraries in the ancient world. As such, Eusebius merits a primary place in our appreciation of the literary culture of late antiquity for both his self-conscious conveyance of multiple traditions and his fostering of innovative literary and intellectual trajectories. By focusing on the full range of Eusebius’s literary corpus, the collection of essays in Eusebius of Caesarea offers new and innovative studies that will change the ways classicists, theologians, and ancient historians think about this major figure.
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Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations
Eusebius of Caesarea was one of the most significant and voluminous contributors to the development of late antique literary culture. Despite his significance, Eusebius has tended to receive attention more as a source for histories of early Christianity and the Constantinian empire than as a writer and thinker in his own right. He was a compiler and copyist of pagan and Christian texts, collator of a massive chronographical work, commentator on scriptural texts, author of apologetic, historical, educational, and biographical works, and custodian of one of the greatest libraries in the ancient world. As such, Eusebius merits a primary place in our appreciation of the literary culture of late antiquity for both his self-conscious conveyance of multiple traditions and his fostering of innovative literary and intellectual trajectories. By focusing on the full range of Eusebius’s literary corpus, the collection of essays in Eusebius of Caesarea offers new and innovative studies that will change the ways classicists, theologians, and ancient historians think about this major figure.
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Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations

Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations

Overview

Eusebius of Caesarea was one of the most significant and voluminous contributors to the development of late antique literary culture. Despite his significance, Eusebius has tended to receive attention more as a source for histories of early Christianity and the Constantinian empire than as a writer and thinker in his own right. He was a compiler and copyist of pagan and Christian texts, collator of a massive chronographical work, commentator on scriptural texts, author of apologetic, historical, educational, and biographical works, and custodian of one of the greatest libraries in the ancient world. As such, Eusebius merits a primary place in our appreciation of the literary culture of late antiquity for both his self-conscious conveyance of multiple traditions and his fostering of innovative literary and intellectual trajectories. By focusing on the full range of Eusebius’s literary corpus, the collection of essays in Eusebius of Caesarea offers new and innovative studies that will change the ways classicists, theologians, and ancient historians think about this major figure.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674073296
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 07/15/2013
Series: Hellenic Studies Series , #60
Pages: 390
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Aaron Johnson is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Classics at Lee University.

Jeremy Schott is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

Ilaria L. E. Ramelli is Professor of Theology and Britt Endowed Chair in the Graduate School of Theology at The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum University), Rome.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Abbreviations ix

1 Introduction Aaron P. Johnson 1

2 Genre and Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History: Toward a Focused Debate David J. DeVore 19

3 Mothers and Martyrdom: Familial Piety and the Model of the Maccabees in Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History James Corke-Webster 51

4 The History of the Caesarean Present: Eusebius and Narratives of Origen Elizabeth C. Penland 83

5 A Eusebian Reading of the Testimonium Flavianum Ken Olson 97

6 Propaganda Against Propaganda: Revisiting Eusebius' Use of the Figure of Moses in the Life of Constantine Finn Damgaard 115

7 The Life of Constantine: The Image of an Image Peter Van Nuffelen 133

8 Eusebius' Commentary on the Psalms and Its Place in the Origins of Christian Biblical Scholarship Michael J. Hollerich 151

9 Textuality and Territorialization: Eusebius' Exegeses of Isaiah and Empire Jeremy M. Schott 169

10 The Ends of Transfiguration: Eusebius' Commentary on Luke (PG 24.549) Aaron P. Johnson 189

11 Origen as an Exegetical Source in Eusebius' Prophetic Extracts Sébastien Morlet 207

12 New Perspectives on Eusebius' Questions and Answers on the Gospels: The Manuscripts Claudio Zamagni 239

13 Eusebius of Caesarea on Asterius of Cappadocia in the Anti-Marcel Ian Writings: A Case Study of Mutual Defense within the Eusebian Alliance Mark DelCogliano 263

14 How Binitarian/Trinitarian was Eusebius? Volker Henning Drecoll 289

15 Origen, Eusebius, the Doctrine of Apokatastasis, and Its Relation to Christology Ilaria Ramelli 307

16 Eusebius and Lactantius: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Christian Theology Kristina A. Meinking 325

Afterword: Receptions Jeremy M. Schott 351

Index Locorum 371

Index of Subjects 375

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