1. Eusebius’ Canon Tables as a Paratext for Ordering Textual Knowledge
The Development of Paratexts in Greco-Roman Book Culture up to the Fourth Century ce
Canon Tables and Tabular Presentation
Tables as Information Visualization
Tabular Presentation in Babylon and Rome
Tabular Presentation in Ptolemy and Eusebius
2. The Origins of Scholarship on the Fourfold Gospel: From Alexandria to Caesarea
The Diatessaron-Gospel of Ammonius of Alexandria
Eusebius’ Description in the Letter to Carpianus
Alexandrian Scholarly Traditions and Ammonius’ Work
Eusebius’ Continuation of Ammonius’ Scholarly Project
Tabular Methods in Eusebius’ Broader Corpus
What did Eusebius Take from Ammonius?
From Formlessness to Polymorphic Diversity
3. Reading the Gospels with the Eusebian Canon Tables
The Canonizing Effect of the Canon Tables
Hypertextual Reading within a Bounded Corpus
The Indeterminate Quality of Eusebius’ Parallels
Case Studies in Eusebius’ Parallels
Case Study 1: Divine and Human Origins
Case Study 2: Jesus’ Passover Journeys to Jerusalem
Case Study 3: The Cleansing(s) of the Temple
Case Study 4: Jesus’ Body as Bread
Case Study 5: Peter’s Confession
Case Study 6: The Petrine Commission
4. ‘The Diversity of Agreement among the Four Evangelists’: Augustine’s Usage of the Canon Tables
Augustine’s Access to Jerome’s Vulgate
Augustine’s Dependence upon the Canon Tables in De Consensu Evangelistarum
Memoria Rerum, Memoria Verborum, and the Truth of the Gospel
5. Canon Tables 2.0: The Peshitta Version of the Eusebian Apparatus
The Syriac Version of Eusebius’ Letter to Carpianus
Marginal Concordance Tables in Syriac Manuscripts
The Peshitta Revision of Eusebius’ Sectioning and Parallels
6. Scholarly Practices: The Eusebian Canon Tables in the Hiberno-Latin Tradition
Ailerán of Clonard, Canon Evangeliorum
Pauca de Libris Catholicorum Scriptorum in Evangelia Excerpta
Artistic Adornment of Canon Tables in Late Antique and Medieval Gospelbooks
Two Armenian Interpretations of Canon Table Decoration
Introduction to Step‘anos of Siwnik‘ and Nerses Šnorhali
The Function of Architecture and Ornamentation according to Step‘anos and Nerses
Interpretations of Specific Motifs in the Decorative Scheme
Image and Symbol: Canon Table Decoration as a System of Loci and Imagines
Image and Text: Armenian Canon Tables as Bildeinsätze
Appendix 1: A Translation of Eusebius’ Letter to Carpianus
Appendix 2: Eusebian Parallels in Augustine’s De consensu evangelistarum
Appendix 4: Theophanes the Grammarian’s Note about Canon Tables
Index of Manuscripts and Papyri