Ancestors as Icons: The Lives of Hebrew Saints in Eusebius’ <i>Praeparatio Evangelica</i>

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  • Aaron P. Johnson

Abstract

In his biographies of the Old Testament holy men, Eusebius applies the topos of the rivalry between verbal and visual portraits, but goes beyond his classical precedents by treating lives as moral icons.

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2004-09-20

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