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22-513: Ecclesiastical History may refer to: Church History (Eusebius) Ecclesiastical History (Zacharias Rhetor) Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede Ecclesiastical History , by Evagrius Scholasticus See also [ edit ] Historia Ecclesiastica (disambiguation) Church History (disambiguation) History of Christianity Topics referred to by

44-579: A liar, the "first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity." Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which "Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed... matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence." As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullen's view has distorted modern attempts, (e.g. Harnack, Nock, and Gustave Bardy), to describe how

66-510: A modern reference: the “large library survived at Caesarea until destroyed by the Arabs in the 7th cent.” O'Connor says of this library, "The tradition of scholarship ... was continued by Pamphilius (d. 309). By adding to the manuscript collection of Origen he created a library second only to that of Alexandria; in 630 it had 30,000 volumes." This number is based on Isidore of Seville 's estimate in his Etymologiae . For further information see

88-440: A school for theological study. In the scriptorium , a necessary adjunct to all libraries of antiquity , he oversaw the production of edited copies of Scripture . Testimonies to this work are to be found in the colophons of biblical manuscripts. Jerome's De Viris Illustribus (75) says that Pamphilus "transcribed the greater part of the works of Origen of Alexandria with his own hand," and that "these are still preserved in

110-489: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Church History (Eusebius) The Ecclesiastical History ( ‹See Tfd› Greek : Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία , Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía ; Latin : Historia Ecclesiastica ), also known as The History of the Church and Church History , is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from

132-496: Is therefore of historical value, though it pretends neither to completeness nor to the observance of due proportion in the treatment of the subject-matter. Nor does it present in a connected and systematic way the history of the early Christian Church. It is to no small extent a vindication of the Christian religion, though the author did not primarily intend it as such. Eusebius has been often accused of intentional falsification of

154-546: The 1st century to the 4th century , composed by Eusebius , the bishop of Caesarea . It was written in Koine Greek and survives also in Latin, Syriac , and Armenian manuscripts. The result was the first full-length narrative of the world history written from a Christian point of view. According to Paul Maier , Herodotus was the father of history and Eusebius of Caesarea is the father of ecclesiastical history. In

176-454: The 5th century, the Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus described Eusebius as writing for "rhetorical finish" in his Vita Constantini ("Life of Constantine ") and for the "praises of the Emperor" rather than the "accurate statement of facts." The methods of Eusebius were criticised by Edward Gibbon in the 18th century. In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as

198-546: The Church grew in the early centuries. Arnaldo Momigliano wrote that in Eusebius's mind "chronology was something between an exact science and an instrument of propaganda". The work was translated into other languages in ancient time (Latin, Syriac, Armenian). Codex Syriac 1 housed at the National Library of Russia is one of the oldest Syriac manuscripts, dated to the year 462. The first English translation

220-686: The city and in all Judea until finally the siege of Vespasian overwhelmed them. Thus the divine vengeance overtook the Jews for the crimes which they dared to commit against Christ. Eusebius levels a similar charge against Christians, blaming a spirit of divisiveness for some of the most severe persecutions. But when on account of the abundant freedom, we fell into laxity and sloth, and envied and reviled each other, and were almost, as it were, taking up arms against one another, rulers assailing rulers with words like spears, and people forming parties against people, and monstrous hypocrisy and dissimulation rising to

242-511: The early 5th century, two advocates in Constantinople , Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen , and a bishop, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Syria , wrote continuations of Eusebius's account, establishing the convention of continuators that would determine to a great extent the way history was written for the next thousand years. Eusebius's Chronicle , which attempted to lay out a comparative timeline of pagan and Old Testament history, set

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264-497: The emperors, presenting it as he found it in his sources. The contents are as follows: Andrew Louth has argued that the Ecclesiastical History was first published in 313  CE . In its present form, the work was brought to a conclusion before the death of Crispus (July 326), and, since book x is dedicated to Paulinus, Archbishop of Tyre , who died before 325, at the end of 323 or in 324. This work required

286-514: The greatest height of wickedness, the divine judgment with forbearance, as is its pleasure, while the multitudes yet continued to assemble, gently and moderately harassed the episcopacy. He also launches into a panegyric in the middle of Book x. He praises the Lord for his provisions and kindness to them for allowing them to rebuild their churches after they have been destroyed. The accuracy of Eusebius's account has often been called into question. In

308-520: The library of Cæsarea." Among other lost treasures in the library was the Gospel according to the Hebrews . Jerome knew of this copy of the so-called "Hebrew" or Aramaic text of the Gospel of Matthew and Eusebius refers to the catalogue of the library that he appended to his life of Pamphilus. A passage from the lost life, quoted by Jerome, describes how Pamphilus supplied impoverished scholars with

330-514: The model for the other historiographical genre, the medieval chronicle or universal history . Eusebius had access to the Theological Library of Caesarea and made use of many ecclesiastical monuments and documents, acts of the martyrs, letters, extracts from earlier Christian writings, lists of bishops, and similar sources, often quoting the originals at great length so that his work contains materials not elsewhere preserved. It

352-678: The most comprehensive preparatory studies, and it must have occupied him for years. His collection of martyrdoms of the older period may have been one of these preparatory studies. Eusebius blames the calamities which befell the Jewish nation on the Jews' role in the death of Jesus . This quote has been used to attack both Jews and Christians (see Antisemitism in Christianity ). … that from that time seditions and wars and mischievous plots followed each other in quick succession, and never ceased in

374-468: The most extensive ecclesiastical library of the time, containing more than 30,000 manuscripts: Gregory Nazianzus , Basil the Great , Jerome and others came to study there. The Caesarean text-type is recognized by scholars as one of the earliest New Testament types. Saint Pamphilus searched out and obtained ancient texts which he collected in the library that Jerome was later to use, and established

396-522: The necessaries of life and gave them copies of the Scriptures, of which he kept a large supply. He likewise bestowed copies on women devoted to study. The great treasure of the library at Caesarea was Origen's own copy of the " Hexapla ," probably the only complete copy ever made. It was consulted by Jerome. St Pamphilus was martyred in February, 309. The collections of the library suffered during

418-536: The persecutions under the Emperor Diocletian , but were repaired subsequently by bishops of Caesarea. Acacius of Caesarea and Euzoius, successors of Eusebius, concentrated on conservation. It was noted in the 6th century, but Henry Barclay Swete was of the opinion that it probably did not long survive the capture of Caesarea by the Saracens in 638, and this claim is repeated, without citation, in

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462-406: The truth . Other scholars, while admitting that his judging of persons or facts is not entirely unbiased, push back on claims of intentional fabrication as "quite unjust." Eusebius attempted according to his own declaration (I.i.1) to present the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points: He grouped his material according to the reigns of

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484-419: Was by Mary Basset , the granddaughter of Sir Thomas More , made between 1544 and 1553; the first version to be printed was by Meredith Hanmer , in 1576. Other early church historians: Theological Library of Caesarea Maritima Through Origen and especially the scholarly presbyter Pamphilus , an avid collector of books of Scripture, the theological school of Caesarea gained a reputation for having

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