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9. Textuality and Territorialization: Eusebius’ Exegeses of Isaiah and Empire, Jeremy M. Schott

9. Textuality and Territorialization: Eusebius’ Exegeses of Isaiah and Empire Jeremy M. Schott That we should study Eusebius’ works within the context of late-ancient Roman imperialism appears self-evident. Eusebius lived and wrote in one of Rome’s provincial capitals. He lived under and had direct contact with Roman imperial power—he witnessed the persecution of Christians in Caesarea under the governors Flavianus, Urbanus, and Firmilianus, but also met,… Read more

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10. The Ends of Transfiguration: Eusebius’ Commentary on Luke (PG 24.549), Aaron P. Johnson

10. The Ends of Transfiguration: Eusebius’ Commentary on Luke (PG 24.549) Aaron P. Johnson In an illuminating treatment of the rise of Platonic commentaries, David Sedley has argued that at the origins of such a parasitic genre as the commentary lies the need to explain a text whose meaning is no longer clear, primarily because of temporal distance, to its readers. [1]… Read more

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11. Origen as an Exegetical Source in Eusebius’ Prophetic Extracts, Sébastien Morlet

11. Origen as an Exegetical Source in Eusebius’ Prophetic Extracts Sébastien Morlet The study of the relationship between Eusebius and Origen as exegetes is still conditioned by Carmelo Curti’s article “L’esegesi di Eusebio di Cesarea: caratteri e sviluppo.” [1] This article contains, in my view, three major hypotheses: Throughout his life, Eusebius was attached to the principle that Scripture contains… Read more

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12. New Perspectives on Eusebius’ Questions and Answers on the Gospels: The Manuscripts, Claudio Zamagni

12. New Perspectives on Eusebius’ Questions and Answers on the Gospels: The Manuscripts [1] Claudio Zamagni Eusebius wrote a large number of works; each of them would probably have been enough to make him one of the major Christian authors of his time. Among his less famous works stand the Questions and Answers on the Gospels, [2]… Read more

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13. Eusebius of Caesarea on Asterius of Cappadocia in the Anti-Marcellan Writings: A Case Study of Mutual Defense within the Eusebian Alliance, Mark DelCogliano

13. Eusebius of Caesarea on Asterius of Cappadocia in the Anti-Marcellan Writings: A Case Study of Mutual Defense within the Eusebian Alliance Mark DelCogliano The theological contributions of Eusebius of Caesarea have long been overshadowed by his achievements as a historian, apologist, and biblical scholar. But in recent scholarship on the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies, he has been identified as one of the leading lights in the… Read more

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Chapter 3. Franco Ferrari, Democritus, Heraclitus, and the Dead Souls: Reconstructing Columns I–VI of the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 3. Democritus, Heraclitus, and the Dead Souls: Reconstructing Columns I–VI of the Derveni Papyrus [*] Franco Ferrari Università dell’Aquila On January 15, 1962, the remains of the Derveni Papyrus were unearthed from a cist grave in northern Greece. Anton Fackelmann, curator of the papyrus collection of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna and the world’s leading expert in the handling… Read more

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Chapter 4. Fritz Graf, Derveni and Ritual

Chapter 4. Derveni and Ritual Fritz Graf The Ohio State University In many respects, the derveni papyrus remains as intriguing as it appeared in 1964 when Stylianos Kapsomenos published the first choice morsels to whet the appetite of the scholarly community, or when, in 1968, Walter Burkert proposed the first thorough interpretation of the text known at the time and anchored the commentary firmly in… Read more

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Chapter 5. Sarah Iles Johnston, Divination in the Derveni Papyrus

Chapter 5. Divination in the Derveni Papyrus Sarah Iles Johnston The Ohio State University In this paper I will look at column V of the papyrus and then, more briefly, at column VI, in hopes of better understanding two issues. First, in what sorts of divinatory practices did the author of the Derveni Papyrus (hereafter the “Author”) engage, and what did he imagine those practices… Read more

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Chapter 6. Walter Burkert, How to Learn about Souls: The Derveni Papyrus and Democritus

Chapter 6. How to Learn about Souls: The Derveni Papyrus and Democritus Walter Burkert University of Zurich The derveni papyrus has been called the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century: a burned papyrus scroll from the fourth century BC, one-third of which has been preserved in a carbonized state. The discovery was made nearly fifty years ago, and I myself have… Read more

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Chapter 7. Jeffrey Rusten, Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papryus between Presocratics and Alexandrians

Chapter 7. Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papryus between Presocratics and Alexandrians [1] Jeffrey Rusten Cornell University Prelude: Reader 1: The Owner of the Derveni Papyrus The urge to attach an author’s name to the Derveni Papyrus is natural for everyone who reads it, which should remind us of why pseudepigrapha were so popular… Read more