6. Propaganda Against Propaganda: Revisiting Eusebius’ Use of the Figure of Moses in the Life of Constantine Finn Damgaard Introduction In the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the literary aspects of the Life of Constantine (VC) and a number of… Read more
7. The Life of Constantine: The Image of an Image Peter Van Nuffelen In her 1991 classic, Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire, Averil Cameron commented that Eusebius’ Life of Constantine (also referred to as the VC) is “a work over-criticized on historical grounds and understudied… Read more
8. Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms and Its Place in the Origins of Christian Biblical Scholarship Michael J. Hollerich Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms (hereafter CPs) is probably the longest book he ever wrote. It came late in his career, at a time when the Church… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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,… Read more
