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Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
Anthony Grafton
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Description for Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
Paperback. When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, scholars of late Roman Caesarea, produced books in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons. Num Pages: 384 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HRAX; HRC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 514.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674030480
SKU
V9780674030480
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About Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. Megan Williams is Assistant Professor of History, San Francisco State University.
Reviews for Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
The book succeeds in placing Origen and Eusebius firmly and illuminatingly against a world in which Christianity had not yet triumphed, and they convey vividly the intellectual daring involved in these pioneering attempts to articulate and define Christianity alongside and against the Jewish and the classical worldviews. - Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books