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Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea/What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
2008
Overview
Understanding what history is, was, and does, Grafton believes, requires understanding the continuing tensions, re-evaluations, and paradoxical relationships between backward-looking, text-reading, humanists and up-todate, text-dissecting, critical historians. In her view (and that of Grafton), Origen's Christianity pushed him into a financially expensive, structurally unique, book-making project that, amazingly for a Hellenistic Roman, involved the study of barbarian languages for the purpose of improving the quality of a barbarian text-the Hebrew scriptures. Critical history needed to approach ancient books with a willingness to undermine the credibility of witnesses by using critical analysis of witnessings. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book is about how Origen and Eusebius not only encouraged the development of the book and textual scholarship in general, but how they also developed early forms of critical behind-the-text methods of rooting out errors and forgery.
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The Conference on Faith and History
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