The Material Gospel by Coogan, J, Morgan, T, Lincicum, D

Ordering Gospel textuality in the second century by Coogan, J, Rodriguez, J

“…This article interrogates how varied second-century figures ordered a pluriform Gospel corpus. Focusing on approaches to Gospel plurality visible in the Epistula apostolorum, Tatian the Syrian, Irenaeus of Lyons, and Ammonius of Alexandria, we argue that a number of Christian readers—across the Roman Mediterranean, from Alexandria to Gaul and from Syria to Rome—employed similar approaches. …”

Mapping the fourfold gospel: textual geography in the Eusebian apparatus by Coogan, J

“…This article argues that Michel de Certeau's distinction between itineraries and maps illuminates the innovative function of the Eusebian apparatus, which contrasts with earlier attempts at gospel harmony and synopsis. Instead of disrupting the narrative integrity of the four canonical gospels, Eusebius's map creates a canonical space that preserves gospel narrative and facilitates exegetical and liturgical appropriation. …”

Meddling with the Gospel: Celsus, Early Christian Textuality, and the politics of reading by Coogan, J

“…The second-century philosopher Celsus disparaged Christians who ‘alter the original text of the Gospel three or four or many times’ (Cels. 2.27). …”

Reading (in) a quadriform cosmos: Gospel Books in the Early Christian bibliographic imagination by Coogan, J

“…Numerous early Christians throughout the Roman Mediterranean aligned the emergent fourfold Gospel with the structure of the physical cosmos. …”

The ways that parted in the library: the Gospels according to Matthew and according to the Hebrews in Late Ancient Heresiology by Coogan, J

“…The material that early Christian sources associate with the Gospel according to the Hebrews exhibits a substantial textual relationship to the Gospel according to Matthew. …”