Late Antique Historiography

Martyrs of Palestine

Title(s):
  • Martyrs of Palestine
  • Τῶν ἐπὶ Παλαιστίνης μαρτύρων
    (Tōn epi Palaistinēs marturōn, Martyrs of Palestine)
  • De martyribus Palaestinae
    (De martyribus Palaestinae, Martyrs of Palestine)
Author:
Period covered:
303-311
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
The work survives in two versions: a shorter and a longer one. The longer one survives also in a Syriac translation.
The abridged version of the Martyrs of Palestine was part of the second edition of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical history (10 books in total) which was written in 313-314 and consisted of the seven books of the first edition, the separate work on the martyrs of Palestine and the Book IX. The third version of the Ecclesiastical history, written around 315, contained an even shorter version of the Martyrs of Palestine and the last book X.
Edition - Translation:
  • G. Bardy (1967) Eusèbe de Césarée: Histoire ecclésiastique. Volume Three (Sources chrétiennes, 55). Paris: 121-174.
  • J. Lawlor, J.E.L. Oulton (1927-1928) The Ecclesiastical history and the Martyrs of Palestine. Two Volumes. London: 327-400.
  • E. Schwartz, T. Mommsen (1903-1909) Eusebius: Werke. Volume Two: Die Kirchengeschichte. Three Volumes (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte). Leipzig.
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Bibliography:
  • (1974) Clavis patrum Graecorum (CPG) 3490
  • T.D. Barnes (1980) 'The editions of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical history'. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 21: 191-201.
  • R. Burgess (1997) 'The dates and editions of Eusebius' Chronici canones and Historia ecclesiastica'. The Journal of Theological Studies 48: 471-504.
  • P. Gemeinhardt, J. Leemans (2012) (ed.) Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD): History and discourse, tradition and religious identity. Berlin.
  • H.J. Lawlor (1973) Eusebiana. Amsterdam.