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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Abbreviations General Introduction
the ecclesiastical history
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
Appendix A. Maps
Appendix B. Eusebius’s Bishop Lists and Chronology
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index Nominum (Index of Names)
Index Locorum (Eusebius’s Sources)