The Eusebian Canon Tables: Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press USA- OSO
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Crawford, Matthew R., The Eusebian Canon Tables : Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity] (2020) (Barker, James W.)
[Rezension von: Crawford, Matthew R., The Eusebian Canon Tables : Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity] (2020) (Head, Peter M.) |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford Early Christian Studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Eusebius, Caesariensis 260-339, Canones evangeliorum
/ Eusebian Canon Tables
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Christian literature, Early
B Electronic books B Thesis |
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| 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. Cover -- The Eusebian Canon Tables: Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Origins -- 1: Eusebius' Canon Tables as a Paratext for Ordering Textual Knowledge -- CANON TABLES AS A PARATEXT -- Defining Paratextuality -- The Development of Paratexts in Greco-Roman Book Culture up to the Fourth Century CE -- CANON TABLES AND TABULAR PRESENTATION -- Tables as Information Visualization -- Tabular Presentation in Babylon and Rome -- Tabular Presentation in Ptolemy and Eusebius -- CONCLUSION -- 2: The Origins of Scholarship on the Fourfold Gospel: From Alexandria to Caesarea -- THE DIATESSARON-GOSPEL OF AMMONIUS OF ALEXANDRIA -- Who was Ammonius? -- Eusebius' Description in the Letter to Carpianus -- Alexandrian Scholarly Traditions and Ammonius' Work -- EUSEBIUS' CONTINUATION OF AMMONIUS' SCHOLARLY PROJECT -- Tabular Methods in Eusebius' Broader Corpus -- What did Eusebius Take from Ammonius? -- Eusebius' Modus Operandi -- From Formlessness to Polymorphic Diversity -- 3: Reading the Gospels with the Eusebian Canon Tables -- THE CANONIZING EFFECT OF THE CANON TABLES -- HYPERTEXTUAL READING WITHIN A BOUNDED CORPUS -- THE INDETERMINATE QUALITY OF EUSEBIUS' PARALLELS -- CASE STUDIES IN EUSEBIUS' PARALLELS -- Case Study 1: Divine and Human Origins -- Case Study 2: Jesus' Passover Journeys to Jerusalem -- Case Study 3: The Cleansing(s) of the Temple -- Case Study 4: Jesus' Body as Bread -- Case Study 5: Peter's Confession -- Case Study 6: The Petrine Commission -- CONCLUSION -- Part 2: Receptions -- 4: 'The Diversity of Agreement among the Four Evangelists': Augustine's Usage of the Canon Tables -- AUGUSTINE'S ACCESS TO JEROME'S VULGATE -- METHODOLOGICAL CLARIFICATIONS. |
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| ISBN: | 0192523570 |