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Author Crawford, Matthew R., author

Title The Eusebian canon tables : ordering textual knowledge in late antiquity / Matthew R. Crawford
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : color illustrations
Series Oxford early Christian studies
Oxford early Christian studies.
Contents Part 1: Origins -- Eusebius' Canon Tables as a paratext for ordering textual knowledge -- The origins of scholarship on the fourfold Gospel: from Alexandria to Caesarea -- Reading the Gospels with the Eusebian Canon Tables -- Part 2: Receptions -- 'The diversity of agreement among the four Evangelists': Augustine's usage of the Canon Table -- Canon Tables 2.0: The Peshitta version of the Eusebian apparatus -- Scholarly practices: the Eusebian Canon Tables in the Hiberno-Latin tradition -- Seeing the salvation of God: images as paratext in Armenian commentaries on the Eusebian Canon Tables -- Conclusion
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-349) and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 8, 2019)
Subject Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340. Eusebian canons.
SUBJECT Eusebius fast
Bible. Gospels -- Harmonies -- History and criticism
Eusebian canons (Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) fast
Bible. Gospels fast
Subject Christian literature, Early.
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Christian literature, Early
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192523570
0192523570
9780191840890
0191840890