The Eusebian Canon Tables
Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity
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- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 May 2019
- ISBN 9780198802600
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 243x161x26 mm
- Weight 800 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This study investigates the origins and use of the Canon Tables apparatus, which was included in the four-gospel codex. This reading aid was invented in the early fourth century by Eusebius of Caesarea and represented a milestone achievement both in the history of the book and in the scholarly study of the fourfold gospel.
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One of the books most central to late-antique religious life was the four-gospel codex, containing the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. A common feature in such manuscripts was a marginal cross-referencing system known as the Canon Tables. This reading aid was invented in the early fourth century by Eusebius of Caesarea and represented a milestone achievement both in the history of the book and in the scholarly study of the fourfold gospel. In this work, Matthew R. Crawford provides the first 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. It then considers the relation of the system to the prior work of Ammonius of Alexandria and the hermeneutical implications of reading a four-gospel codex equipped with the marginal apparatus. Part two transitions to the reception of the paratext in subsequent centuries by highlighting four case studies from different cultural and theological traditions, from Augustine of Hippo, who used the Canon Tables to develop the first ever theory of gospel composition, to a Syriac translator in the fifth century, to later monastic scholars in Ireland between the seventh and ninth centuries. Finally, from the eighth century onwards, Armenian commentators used the artistic adornment of the Canon Tables as a basis for contemplative meditation. These four case studies represent four different modes of using the Canon Tables as a paratext and illustrate the potential inherent in the Eusebian apparatus for engaging with the fourfold gospel in a variety of ways, from the philological to the theological to the visual.
... this book offers a wonderfully detailed introduction to the development and reception of the Eusebian Canon Tables, and superbly fills a major lacuna in the scholarly study of the fourfold Gospel canon.
Table of Contents:
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Introduction
Eusebius’ Canon Tables as a Paratext for Ordering Textual Knowledge
The Origins of Scholarship on the Fourfold Gospel: From Alexandria to Caesarea
Reading the Gospels with the Eusebian Canon Tables
Augustine’s Usage of the Canon Tables in De Consensu Evangelistarum
Canon Tables 2.0: The Peshitta Version of the Eusebian Apparatus
Scholarly Practices: The Eusebian Canon Tables in the Hiberno-Latin Tradition
Seeing the Salvation of God: Images as Paratext in Armenian Commentaries on the Eusebian Canon Tables
Conclusion
Appendix 1: A Translation of Eusebius' Letter to Carpianus
Appendix 2: Eusebian Parallels in Augustine's De consensu evangelistarum
Appendix 3: The Gospel Synopsis in Codex Climaci Rescriptus and its Possible Connection to Ammonius' Diatessaron-Gospel
Appendix 4: Theophanes the Grammarian's Note about Canon Tables
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