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Eusebius the Evangelist analyzes Eusebius of Caesarea's
fourth-century reconfiguration of the Gospels as a window into
broader questions of technology and textuality in the ancient
Mediterranean. The four Gospels of the New Testament (Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John) share language, narratives, and ideas, yet
they also differ in structure and detail. The sophisticated system
through which Eusebius organized this intricate web of textual
relationships is known as the Eusebian apparatus. Eusebius'
editorial intervention-involving tables, sectioning, and tables of
contents-participates in a broader late ancient transformation in
reading and knowledge. To illuminate Eusebius' innovative use of
textual technologies, the study juxtaposes diverse ancient
disciplines-including chronography, astronomy, geography, medicine,
philosophy, and textual criticism-with a wide range of early
Christian sources, attending to neglected evidence from material
texts and technical literature. These varied phenomena reveal how
Eusebius' fourfold Gospel worked in the hands of readers. Eusebius'
creative juxtapositions of Gospel material had an enduring impact
on Gospel reading. Not only did Eusebius continue earlier
trajectories of Gospel writing, but his apparatus continued to
generate new possibilities in the hands of readers. For more than a
millennium, in over a dozen languages and in thousands of
manuscripts, Eusebius' invention transformed readers' encounters
with Gospel text on the page. By employing emerging textual
technologies, Eusebius created new possibilities of reading,
thereby rewriting the fourfold Gospel in a significant and durable
way.
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