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- Title
CITING OR DOCTORING THE SOURCES? SERAPION AND THE GOSPEL OF PETER IN EUSEBIUS'S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA.
- Authors
EDO, PABLO M.
- Abstract
This paper examines a quotation from the treatise of Bishop Serapion of Antioch's work About the so-called Gospel according to Peter, that Eusebius of Caesarea commented on in his Historia Ecclesiastica (4.12). The text of Serapion is ambiguous and allows various interpretations, leading some scholars to suggest that Eusebius manipulated his sources on account of his specific quotations. This paper offers a translation and interpretation of the passage in attempts to verify whether Eusebius did in fact distort Serapion's meaning. The research also deals with descriptions of the Gospel of Peter, as known by Serapion in the 2nd century and corresponding to the Akhmim Fragment, presumably our only extant evidence of that Gospel.
- Subjects
EUSEBIUS, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340; HISTORIANS; BIBLE. Gospels; HISTORIA Ecclesiastica (Book); AUTHORSHIP; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY
- Publication
Exemplaria Classica, 2016, p107
- ISSN
1699-3225
- Publication type
Article