TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grafton,Anthony
AU  - Williams,Megan
TI  - Christianity and the transformation of the book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea 
SN  - 9780674037861
AV  - BR67.2 .G73 2008eb
U1  - 270.10922 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Eusebius,
KW  - Hexapla
KW  - fast
KW  - Christian literature, Early
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Libraries and scholars
KW  - Books
KW  - History
KW  - To 400
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Israel
KW  - Caesarea
KW  - Littérature chrétienne primitive
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Bibliothèques et savants
KW  - Livres
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 400
KW  - Bibliothèques
KW  - Israël
KW  - Césarée
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Church
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Caesarea (Israel)
KW  - Césarée (Israël)
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Originally published: 2006; Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-290) and index; Cast of Characters -- Introduction : Scholars, Books, and Libraries in the Christian Tradition -- Origen at Caesarea : A Christian Philosopher among His Books -- Origen's Hexapla : Scholarship, Culture, and Power -- Eusebius's Chronicle : History Made Visible -- Eusebius at Caesarea : A Christian Impresario of the Codex -- Coda : Caesarea in History and Tradition
N2  - 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 texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new kind of library to support both research and book production. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book attends to the social, religious, intellectual, and institutional contexts within which Origen and Eusebius worked, as well as the details of their scholarly practices--practices that, the authors argue, continued to define major sectors of Christian learning for almost two millennia and are, in many ways, still with us today
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