Preface
Text and Translation of Eusebius' Epistle to Carpianus
Chapter 1: Introduction
Is Eusebius Also Among the Evangelists?
A Practical Introduction: Reading, Reception, and Use
Eusebius of Caesarea and His Context
Using the Eusebian Apparatus
Histories of Gospel Scholarship
Overview of Argument
Chapter 2: Technology
Textual Machines
Prefatory Maps
Columnar Tables
Knowing Gospels Differently
Chapter 3: Gospel Writing
Continuity and Innovation
Gospel Production from Mark to Eusebius
Reconfiguring the Gospels
The Gospel According to Eusebius
Chapter 4: Creative Juxtaposition
History and Critique
How Eusebius Reads Gospels
Similar Things
Rewriting Gospel Relationship
Rediscovering the Purpose of the Eusebian Apparatus
Poetic Geography
Chapter 5: Reading Eusebius' Gospels
Reception as Evidence
Magnitudes of Reception
Traces of Reading
Use and Meaning
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Bibliography
Jeremiah Coogan is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California.
Eusebius of Caesarea is best known for his history of the early
church, but this thought-provoking and original book reveals his
surprising influence on Christian reading practices—in late
antiquity and beyond. Coogan's considerable research will be a boon
to historians and literary scholars alike.
*Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan*
In this remarkable study, Coogan directs a powerful combination of
theoretical tools at Eusebius' Gospel apparatus, revealing how it
rereads and, importantly, rewrites the canonical Gospels. As
important as the specific reading of Eusebius is, Coogan's insights
into the power of paratext will be valuable for scholars across
languages, genres, and time periods.
*Andrew M. Riggsby, University of Texas at Austin*
This is a brilliant addition to the blossoming scholarship on
Eusebius, the Canon Tables, and to the Reading and Writing Cultures
in Antiquity that would be of interest to Classicists and early
Christianity scholars alike.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
The monograph is an excellent in-depth study of the reading
innovations effectuated by Eusebius' Canons. This is a brilliant
addition to the blossoming scholarship on Eusebius, the Canon
Tables, and to the Reading and Writing Cultures in Antiquity that
would be of interest to Classicists and early Christianity scholars
alike.
*Anna Lefteratou, University of Cambridge, Bryn Mawr Classical
Review*
Coogan is absolutely right that most studies of the Gospels do not
understand or are ignorant of the potential value of Eusbeius's
innovative technologies for Gospel reading. While the canons/tables
are in the preface to the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, I
confess that their usage and significance has remained opaque and
largely unexplained to me. Coogan's excellently argued and clearly
written study can go a long way toward remedying my (and others,
should they share them) deficiencies in this area.
*Joshua W. Jipp, Bulletin for Biblical Research*
This book and its outstanding bibliography prepare the way for
those willing to take up the task.
*Sr. Maria Theotokos Adams, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly*
This deeply researched study of the Eusebian canons is an
outstanding contribution to the contemporary turn to the material
and technological dimensions of Gospel manuscript tradition and the
corresponding reading practices.
*Studies in Religion *
A valuable resource for the scholar desiring to study the
significance of the literary technology standing at the head of
their critical Greek NT, and the book is generative for readers
desiring to watch the chimeric line between the composition and
reception of sacred text.
*Religious Studies Review*
This deeply researched study of the Eusebian canons is an
outstanding contribution to the contemporary turn to the material
and technological dimensions of Gospel manuscript tradition and the
corresponding reading practices.
*Studies in Religion*
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