Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea

by Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674030486
• ISBN13: 9780674030480
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.1"