VIII– IX, of Eusebius, Der ... provided a continuation, in this case taking the narrative forward from 325 to 378. Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. Educated hellenophones in Eusebius’s day did not distinguish genres of historia simply by their respective authors’ ethnicity: rather, any Greek historian had numerous subgenres from an 800-year tradition of historical writing available to emulate, so that Greek and non-Greek narrator-authors alike produced lengthy national histories, shorter war monographs, geographies and ethnographies, local histories, chronographies, and biographies, and combinations of several genres, each presuming different respective interests and education in audiences. ixf.). Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for 2014 (Old Testament Commentaries) Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. ), Three Greek Apologists (2007); she also discusses the Eusebian narrator’s relationship with his audience trenchantly in “Überlegungen zum Adressaten von Eusebs Historia ecclesiastica,” Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 14 (2010). See also the recent collections of A.-C. Jacobsen, and J. Ulrich (eds.) Of Eusebius's many learned publications we have Martyrs of Palestine and Life of Constantine; several apologetic and polemic works; parts of his commentaries on the Psalms and Isaiah; and the Chronographia, known chiefly in Armenian and Syriac versions of … Expressions of thanks or praise should be sent directly to the reviewer, using the email address in the review. This is the essential reason why in both ancient and modem ... 7 e.g. Yet since the late 1990s his early works from before Constantine became sole Roman emperor in 324 have drawn a groundswell of scholarly of attention from historians, classicists and theologians. BMCR provides the opportunity to comment on reviews in order to enhance scholarly communication. We ask that comments be substantive in content and civil in tone and those that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be published. Nevertheless, Verdoner’s discussion of Eusebius’s narrative tactics and construct of Christianity will be fundamental in coming studies of the Ecclesiastical History. Besides all these, others encountered other trials, which it is impossible to recount; for their manly endurance surpasses all description. Eusebius was the author of the Chronicon, a history of the world from the famous peoples of antiquity to the year 303 (later continued to 325), and the Historia Ecclesiastica, a history of the Church from its beginning up to the year 324, as well as many apologetic, exegetical, and dogmatic works. Rev. The fifth and final chapter situates Eusebius’s imagined church vis-à-vis three contexts: space and time, the Roman imperial state, and the divine. But here Verdoner presupposes a distinction between “Hellenistic” and “Judeo- Christian” historiographies, even though she is at pains to delineate differences between these two traditions.8 Indeed, it is unclear how, in early fourth century Greek literary culture, an narrator-author’s ethnicity conditioned readers’ expectations about the blending of form, content, and rhetoric – in short, the genre – of a historiographical text. A brief account of Christianity in Roman Britain, including the martyrdom of … Barnes, “Eusebius of Caesarea,” Expository Times 120 (2009), 6f.). 3. Verdoner’s reading of the History as a unified ideological presentation is a suggestive experiment and an important corrective to studies that divide the text according to one or another compositional hypothesis or that emphasize Eusebius’s sources to the exclusion of his authorial agenda. And after arranging their garments suitably, they went aside from the middle of the road, having requested of the guards a little time for retirement, and cast themselves into a river which was flowing by. (Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius, c. 325). The Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History. In these conflicts the noble martyrs of Christ shone illustrious over the entire world, and everywhere astonished those who beheld their manliness; and the evidences of the truly divine and unspeakable power of our Saviour were made manifest through them. 7. Eusebius, Hist. For, she said, that to surrender their souls to the slavery of demons was worse than all deaths and destruction; and she set before them the only deliverance from all these things,—escape to Christ. The limbs of some were broken, as in Cappadocia. Thus they were caught in the nets of the soldiers. It was written in Koine Greek, and survives also in Latin, Syriac and Armenian … The fourth chapter outlines how Eusebius constructs an ideal Christian community, unifying and arranging bishops, martyrs, and scholars across time, space, and rank within a Christian ethnos while systematically excluding “heretics,” Judeans, and pagans (109-147).6 While Eusebius’s stereotyped presentation of both insiders and outsiders creates a unified, pious Christian nation, Verdoner shows that certain groups and individuals threatened the stability of Eusebius’s sharp hierarchies and divisions, such as “heresy’s” status as an inversion of Christianity, the problematic border between Hebrews, Judeans, and Christians, and the narrator’s praise of “heretical” and Judean scholars like Tatian, Philo and Josephus. 7.31.1-2). Eusebius thành Caesarea (tiếng Hy Lạp: Εὐσέβιος, Eusébios; ad 260/265 – 339/340; tiếng Việt: Êusêbiô), còn gọi là Eusebius Pamphili, là một nhà sử học, nhà chú giải, và nhà biện minh Kitô giáo người Hy Lạp. Eusebius was the most prominent and powerful of Arius’ supporters in the years surrounding the latter’s condemnation at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337. Some of the best recent work on the History has treated circumscribed topics within the text, such as its quotational practice (E. Carotenuto, Tradizione e innovazione nella Historia Ecclesiastica di Eusebio di Cesarea (Bologna, 2001)), and portrayal of “heretics” (M. Willing, Eusebius von Cäsarea als Häresiograph (Berlin, 2008)). Eusebius remained in the emperor’s favour, and, after Constantine’s death in 337, he wrote his Life of Constantine, a panegyric that possesses some historical value, chiefly because of its use of primary sources. Origen, Eusebius, Athanasius (Frankfurt, 2007) and S. Inowlocki and C. Zamagni (eds. He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospeland On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the Bi… Verdoner’s discussion of the History‘s authority, which she links to its genre, would have benefited from consultation of Marincola’s classic Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge, 1997). Bryn Mawr PA 19010. 4. Eusebius’ greatest contribution is Historia Ecclesiastica (Church History), an extensive history of the Christian Church from the time of the apostles until about A.D. 323, just before the Council of Nicaea. The Ecclesiastical History is the first major attempt to explain the relationship of Christianity and the Roman Empire; its approach in describing the development of the church is primarily historical, and it has been described as both a political theology and a theology of history. On genre in ancient historiography, see the important essay of J. Marincola, “Genre, Convention, and Innovation in Greco-Roman Historiography,” in C. Kraus (ed. After having passed through several phases of editing, this Historia ecclesiastica comprised ten books in its final form. Or of others who preferred to thrust their right hand into the fire rather than touch the impious sacrifice? Why need we revive the recollection of those in Antioch who were roasted on grates, not so as to kill them, but so as to subject them to a lingering punishment? eccl. I: Eusebius Pamphilus. CHRONICI CANONES/HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA 475 that it is in this year that one finds a synchronism of five local eastern calendars—those of Antioch, Tyre, Laodicea, Edessa, and Ascalon—with Year 2 of Probus.12 The first problem with the date of 277 is that Eusebius would only have been at most seven- teen years old when he wrote the chronicle.13 This is virtually … Credit for laying the historical foundation for recent Eusebian scholarship goes largely to T. Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius (Cambridge, MA, 1981). For they said that it was not fitting that the cities should be polluted with the blood of their own people, or that the government of their rulers, which was kind and mild toward all, should be defamed through excessive cruelty; but that rather the beneficence of the humane and royal authority should be extended to all, and we should no longer be put to death. 1. For the conclu sion in year twenty of Constantine ( = ad 325), see e.g. 6. Chapter 3 moves on to the History‘s genre, which Verdoner introduces as the key to its authority. Why need we mention the rest by name, or number the multitude of the men, or picture the various sufferings of the admirable martyrs of Christ? Eusebius, a learned man and famous author, enjoyed the favour of the Emperor Constantine. As if the earth could not bear such excellence, the worshipers of demons commanded to cast them into the sea. A discussion of “Hellenistic” and “Judeo-Christian history writing” (on which, see below) leads her to pronounce that the History“must be placed within the frames of the traditional Hellenistic-Roman history writing…regarding time,…subject, form and style” (84), though the text articulates apologetic arguments too.4 The strongest part of the book comes next (89-107), as Verdoner untangles Eusebius’s carefully inflected self-descriptions as “I” or “we” (the latter sometimes including Christians from centuries before Eusebius, sometimes including Eusebius’s readers ) and as an exceptionally book-smart savant. For another, the History‘s complex and disputed compositional history has hindered scholars from mapping out the discursive contexts that it addresses.3. ——. ×Your email address will not be published. ), Reconsidering Eusebius (Leiden, 2011), as well as the forthcoming A. Johnson and J. Schott (eds. Thereby Verdoner will explain “the cultural negotiations attending the turn into a post-Constantinian Christianity” (2): situating her reading within the new historicism, she dispenses explicitly with the older (to adapt a term from Herodotean and Thucydidean studies) “Eusebian questions” of compositional sequence and historical accuracy to focus instead on the History as an ideological document. Filed under Ancient History, Christianity, Eusebius, Martyrdom, Middle East, Selections, For Help Concerning Suicide: Resources for Suicide Prevention, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Central and South American Indigenous Cultures, Intellectual, Religious, or Cultural Tradition, Central and South American Native Cultures, Mental Illness: depression, despair, insanity, delusion. Some, raised on high by the feet, with their heads down, while a gentle fire burned beneath them, were suffocated by the smoke which arose from the burning wood, as was done in Mesopotamia. Their fingers were pierced with sharp reeds under their nails. 'Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Luke: Its Origin and Early History', HTR 67 (1974), 63. Since great envy was excited on their account, every means was used to find them in their concealment; and when it was ascertained that they were away, they were summoned deceitfully to Antioch. He was excommunicated by the synod of Antioch for this view; however, he was later exonerated by the emperor Constantine I. Eusebius played a role in the council of Nicaea in 325, where he tried to reconcile the opposing parties while repudiating extreme Arianism. Verdoner’s second chapter sketches Eusebius’s life and works briefly before discussing the composition, structure, and narrative techniques of the History. Thus they destroyed themselves. He lived most of his life in Caesarea Maritima. e note di Mons. Rather than being grounded from the start in Eusebius’s late Roman milieu, the book sketches Eusebius’s literary culture only in its third chapter. A few examples: the repeated use of “quote” as a noun; “the taxing style…resulting in the text getting an alluding character” (52); “although the lack of descriptions [ sic ] may be typical for the work as a whole, it is not consequent” (53); “…catching the room of communication with the reader…” (89 n. 121); “…the non-episcopal learned receiving the most attention is Origen.” (113); “there is no consistent discern between schismatics and heretics” (145). On non-Greeks writing “apologetic histories” in Greek in the Hellenistic and early Roman period, see G. Sterling, Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephos, Luke-Acts, and Apologetic Historiography (Leiden, 1991), an important study of which Verdoner appears unaware. But there were two other virgins in the same city of Antioch who served God in all things, and were true sisters, illustrious in family and distinguished in life, young and blooming, serious in mind, pious in deportment, and admirable for zeal. Indeed, Inowlocki and Zamagni excluded studies of the Ecclesiastical History from their recent volume (previous note; see their “Preface,” pp. On the demonic causes of heresies in the Historia ecclesiastica … 15. The Church History (Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica or Historia Ecclesiae) of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century. Some of them were slain with the axe, as in Arabia. Arthur Cushman McGiffert. Little is known about his life. 2 See Alden A. Mosshammer, The Chronicle of Eusebius and Greek ChronographicChronographic Tradition (Lewisburg, PA, 1979), 38, 61, 62—63, 75. And each genre (or combination of genres) implicated a text’s narrator-author into a different relationship between subject matter, the narrator’s voice, and readers (both implied and actual) – a nexus that represented a major concern for Eusebius (see esp. EUSEBIUS. Constantine was the ruling spirit at Nicaea and he ultimately decided upon a new god for them. The work was originally written in Greek, although Latin, Armenian, and Syriac versions were also preserved. Melted lead, bubbling and boiling with the heat, was poured down the backs of others, and they were roasted in the most sensitive parts of the body. 7. 340), one of the early church's great polymaths, produced significant works as a historian (Ecclesiastical History), geographer (Onomasticon), philologist, exegete (commentaries on the Psalms and Isaiah), apologist (Preparation for and … As fresh probing of the History is overdue, Marie Verdoner’s new book, a translated revision of her 2007 Danish dissertation at the University of Aarhus, is a welcome study. balloting: Caesar, Krishna, Mithra, Horus and Zeus ( Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius, c. 325) then after much debate down to o nly 5 through balloting: Caesar, Krishna, Mithra, Horus and Zeus (Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius, c. 325). When the woman saw herself and her daughters thus helpless, and knew the things terrible to speak of that men would do to them,—and the most unbearable of all terrible things, the threatened violation of their chastity,—she exhorted herself and the maidens that they ought not to submit even to hear of this. 260--ca. For the infliction of this punishment upon us should be stopped in consequence of the humanity of the rulers. The ecclesiastical history of Eusebius Pamphilus, bishop of Cesarea, in Palestine Item Preview History 5.pref.3f.). And this was done to them. EUSEBIUS (c. 260/70 – c. 339), a Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine from 314, was a leading early Christian historian, exegete, and apologist. A certain holy person,—in soul admirable for virtue, in body a woman,—who was illustrious beyond all in Antioch for wealth and family and reputation, had brought up in the principles of religion her two daughters, who were now in the freshness and bloom of life. 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