Church History
Historia ecclesiastica · Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία
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About this work
- Author
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- Attribution
- authentic · Undisputed work of Eusebius, the first history of the church, from Christ to the victory of Constantine over Licinius (324). It quotes many earlier Christian writers whose works are otherwise lost.
- Older English translation
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (public domain, at CCEL; for comparison: our translation is made from the original first and checked against it afterwards)
- Date
- ca. 300–325 (disputed) · Issued and revised in several editions; the last, with Book 10, dates to about 324–325. When the first edition appeared is disputed.
- Written at
- Caesarea, Palestine (probable)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- history
- Reference system
- book.chapter.section. The prefaces of Books 2, 5, 7, and 8 are chapter 0 of their book. The appendix to Book 8 found in some manuscripts is not yet included.
- SBL abbreviation
- Hist. eccl.
- Clavis
- CPG 3495 (unverified)
- Text from
- Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Critical editions
- Eduard Schwartz, Eusebius Werke 2: Die Kirchengeschichte, GCS 9.1–3 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1903–1909); Gustave Bardy, Eusèbe de Césarée: Histoire ecclésiastique, SC 31, 41, 55, 73 (Paris: Cerf, 1952–1960) (cited, not reproduced)
- CTS URN
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2018.tlg002