Sophia Scriptura

Church History 3.9.5

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: In Against Apion Josephus lists the undisputed Hebrew Scriptures.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:101

τούτων ἐν τῷ προτέρῳ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῆς λεγομένης παλαιᾶς τῶν ἐνδιαθήκων γραφῶν τίθησι, τίνα τὰ παρʼ Ἑβραίοις ἀναντίρρητα, ὡσὰν ἐξ ἀρχαίας παραδόσεως, αὐτοῖς ῥήμασι διὰ τούτων διδάσκων·

English · Claude translation

In the first of these he gives the number of the canonical Scriptures of the so-called Old Testament, which are undisputed among the Hebrews, as from ancient tradition, teaching it in these very words:

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Source
Dindorf 4:101 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Josephus, Ag. Ap. 1.38 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/9/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/9/5/).

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