The Eusebian Canon Tables

Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20033038
AutoresMatthew R Crawford (0000-0002-2888-2071, Australian Catholic University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Páginas400
Data de publicação2019-05-06
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoEusebian Canon Tables (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198802600.001.0001
WikidataQ123514861
OpenAlexW4248370987
Open LibraryOL28711698M
ISBN9780198802600
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18

A central book in late antique religious life was the four-gospel codex—a manuscript containing the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—and one of the most common features of such manuscripts is a marginal cross-referencing system known as the Canon Tables. This reading aid, invented in the early fourth century by Eusebius of Caesarea, represented a milestone achievement both in the history of the book and in the scholarly study of the fourfold gospel. The present monograph is the first ever book-length treatment of the origins and use of the Canon Tables apparatus in any language. Part one begins by defining the Canon Tables as a paratextual device that orders the textual content of the fourfold gospel; then considers the relation of the system to the prior work of Ammonius of Alexandria and the hermeneutical implications of its use. Part two examines the paratext’s reception in subsequent centuries by highlighting four case studies from different cultural and theological traditions, from Augustine of Hippo to a Syriac translator in the fifth century, to later monastic scholars in Ireland. Finally, from the eighth century onwards, Armenian scholars used the artistic adornment of the Canon Tables as a basis for contemplative meditation. These case studies represent four different modes of using the Canon Tables as a paratext and so illustrate the potential inherent in the Eusebian apparatus for engaging with the fourfold gospel in a variety of ways, from the literary to the theological to the visual

Adornment · Aesthetics · Art · Canon · Composition (language) · Contemplation · Gospel · Literature · Paratext · Relation (database) · Rhetoric · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Bible · Bible, canon · Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc · Early Christian literature · Eusebian canons (Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) · Eusebius, of caesarea, bishop of caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340 · Harmonies · History and criticism