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Author Grafton, Anthony, author.

Title Christianity and the transformation of the book : Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea / Anthony Grafton, Megan Williams
Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 367 pages)
Contents Cast of Characters -- Introduction : Scholars, Books, and Libraries in the Christian Tradition -- Origen at Caesarea : A Christian Philosopher among His Books -- Origen's Hexapla : Scholarship, Culture, and Power -- Eusebius's Chronicle : History Made Visible -- Eusebius at Caesarea : A Christian Impresario of the Codex -- Coda : Caesarea in History and Tradition
Summary When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new kind of library to support both research and book production. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book attends to the social, religious, intellectual, and institutional contexts within which Origen and Eusebius worked, as well as the details of their scholarly practices--practices that, the authors argue, continued to define major sectors of Christian learning for almost two millennia and are, in many ways, still with us today
Notes Originally published: 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-290) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340 -- Books and reading
SUBJECT Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340 fast
Hexapla. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86079053
Hexapla fast
Subject Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
Libraries and scholars.
Books -- History -- To 400.
Libraries -- Israel -- Caesarea -- History -- To 400
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
RELIGION -- History.
Books
Books and reading
Christian literature, Early
Intellectual life
Libraries
Libraries and scholars
SUBJECT Caesarea (Israel) -- Intellectual life
Subject Israel -- Caesarea
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, Megan Hale, 1969- author.
ISBN 9780674037861
0674037863