Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions (Ancient Texts in Translation)
Eusebius Pamphili was bishop of Caesarea in the early fourth century A.D He witnessed the last great persecution of the Christians during the reign of Diocletian. Under Constantine in 313, he witnessed peace within the church and attended the First Council of Nicaea.He died soon after 337, leaving a panegyric of Constantine unfinished. Today, he is remembered mainly for his Ecclesiastical History, which remains the fundamental primary source for the history of the early church.He also devised the first modern-style tables of dates and events in his Chronicle, which became the basis for all subsequent chronology. His tables of parallel passages in the bible appear in manuscripts for the next thousand years.An Onomasticon of biblical sites known in his day is valuable to the archaeologist, while his works on the relationship of Greek culture to Christianity are a gold-mine of otherwise lost sources, quoted verbatim.His biblical commentaries remain untranslated, and many other works are lost.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.