Of course, the object of study itself resists easy classification: the Ecclesiastical History’s universally acknowledged originality does not make easy work of generic identification. The term historia, of course, could designate anything from a synchronic geographical survey to a novelistic narrative, labeling numerous subgenres and combinations of genres nonetheless, Eusebius’ title pointed to at least one of these groups of texts as precedent for its form, content, and/or rhetoric. The text explicitly participates in an 800-year, diverse tradition of Greek historia, competing with the Greek historiographical tradition.

But it is a priori doubtful that the Ecclesiastical History either fell from the sky, distinctively formed and alien to classical tradition, or that its lines of participation in Greek historiographical genres are untraceable. MeinkingĮusebius’ Ecclesiastical History is universally acknowledged as a watershed in historiographical presentation, the most innovative history since the fifth century BC: it quotes previous texts promiscuously, avoids placing orations into characters’ mouths, incorporates literary history, and lacks causal relations between successive episodes. Eusebius and Lactantius: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Christian Theology, Kristina A. Origen, Eusebius, the Doctrine of Apokatastasis, and Its Relation to Christology, Ilaria Ramelliġ6. How Binitarian/Trinitarian was Eusebius? Volker Henning Drecollġ5. Eusebius of Caesarea on Asterius of Cappadocia in the Anti-Marcellan Writings: A Case Study of Mutual Defense within the Eusebian Alliance, Mark DelCoglianoġ4. New Perspectives on Eusebius’ Questions and Answers on the Gospels: The Manuscripts, Claudio Zamagniġ3. Origen as an Exegetical Source in Eusebius’ Prophetic Extracts, Sébastien Morletġ2. The Ends of Transfiguration: Eusebius’ Commentary on Luke (PG 24.549), Aaron P. Textuality and Territorialization: Eusebius’ Exegeses of Isaiah and Empire, Jeremy M. Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms and Its Place in the Origins of Christian Biblical Scholarship, Michael J. The Life of Constantine: The Image of an Image, Peter Van NuffelenĨ. Propaganda Against Propaganda: Revisiting Eusebius’ Use of the Figure of Moses in the Life of Constantine, Finn Damgaardħ. A Eusebian Reading of the Testimonium Flavianum, Ken OlsonĦ. The History of the Caesarean Present: Eusebius and Narratives of Origen, Elizabeth C. Mothers and Martyrdom: Familial Piety and the Model of the Maccabees in Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical History, James Corke-WebsterĤ. Genre and Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History: Toward a Focused Debate, David J.

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