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A Bishop’s Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and The Life of Constantine (2020)
Book Chapter
Corke-Webster, J. (2020). A Bishop’s Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and The Life of Constantine. In K. De Temmerman (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of ancient biography. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198703013.013.23

Eusebius’ Life of Constantine is one of the oddest works of biography to survive from Antiquity. As such, its authenticity and genre have been much studied. But its literary qualities remain undervalued. This chapter reads it not as a stand-alone wor... Read More about A Bishop’s Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and The Life of Constantine.

Trouble in Pontus: The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence on the Christians Reconsidered (2017)
Journal Article
Corke-Webster, J. (2017). Trouble in Pontus: The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence on the Christians Reconsidered. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974. Online), 147(2), 371-411. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2017.0013

The letters exchanged by Pliny and Trajan concerning Christians have occasioned abundant commentary. But scholarship remains confused over two questions—first, Pliny's procedure and motivation in writing, and second, the extent of the emperor's respo... Read More about Trouble in Pontus: The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence on the Christians Reconsidered.

A Man for the Times: Jesus and the Abgar Correspondence in Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical History (2017)
Journal Article
Corke-Webster, J. (2017). A Man for the Times: Jesus and the Abgar Correspondence in Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical History. Harvard Theological Review, 110(4), 563-587. https://doi.org/10.1017/s001781601700027x

Perhaps the most extraordinary story about Jesus to survive from antiquity is one of the least often told. It runs as follows: Towards the end of his life, Jesus's reputation has spread out from Palestine and reached the terminally ill Abgar V (also... Read More about A Man for the Times: Jesus and the Abgar Correspondence in Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical History.

The Early Reception of Pliny the Younger in Tertullian of Carthage and Eusebius of Caesarea (2017)
Journal Article
Corke-Webster, J. (2017). The Early Reception of Pliny the Younger in Tertullian of Carthage and Eusebius of Caesarea. Classical Quarterly, 67(1), 247-262. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000983881700009x

In 1967 Alan Cameron published a landmark article in this journal, ‘The fate of Pliny's Letters in the late Empire’. Opposing the traditional thesis that the letters of Pliny the Younger were only rediscovered in the mid to late fifth century by Sido... Read More about The Early Reception of Pliny the Younger in Tertullian of Carthage and Eusebius of Caesarea.