The Eusebian Canon Tables : ordering textual knowledge in late antiquity / Matthew R. Crawford.
By: Crawford, Matthew R
Series: Oxford early Christian studies: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.Description: [xix], 372 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 24 cm ISBN: 9780198802600.Subject(s): Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340 -- Criticism and interpretation | Bible. GospelsBibliography:
Includes bibliography (pages [317]-349) and indexes.
Contents:
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..
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-Gospe -- Appendix 4: Theophanes the Grammarian's Note about Canon Tables -- Bibliography.
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