The New Testament Apocrypha ("Hidden Books" of Bible) authored <after> Nicaea 325 CE

so, Eusebius was every NT author & every NT compiler?

Eusebius I suggest was the Editor-In-Chief of the fabrication of the new testament canon. It is generally accepted that he had scribes and scriptoria available to him. What is not generally accepted is that he was sponsored by Constantine, and that he was a mercenary literacist.

how did he find time to write anything?

He was well paid by "The Boss" for his services.

You must understand that there are two different hemispheres in the entire corpus of new testament literature. There is the canon, and there are the many and varied "Other Books" generally classified as the new testament apocrypha. I am exploring the possibility that Eusebius was the editor-in-chief of the new testament canon, but that the new testament apocrypha were authored after Nicaea by Greek academic satirists, as a reaction to Constantine's support and publication of the canon.
 

Skokie

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Nah, thanks. That doesn't cut it. I think that's hagiography. I don't trust Eusebius. (I'm serious. :p)
 
I was asking how does Eusebius find time to write all the other things attributed to Eusebius?

From 312 to 324 CE is a dozen years. Plenty of time.
The total output is not excessive. He does not cite his
forged books whole, but cites selective forged quotes.
 
Nah, thanks. That doesn't cut it. I think that's hagiography. I don't trust Eusebius. (I'm serious. :p)

Here is what Arnaldo Momigliano says about Eusebius:

The immense authority which Eusebius gained was well deserved. He had continuators but no rivals. Simple and majestic Eusebius of Caesarea claims for himself the merit of having invented ecclesiastical history. This merit cannot be disputed.

The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography, Arnaldo Momigliano Sather Classical Lectures (1961-62), Volume Fifty-Four, University of California Press, 1990, pp.138


Momigliano nominates Athanasius as the inventor of Ecclesiastical hagiography on the basis of his authorship of "The Life of St. Anthony".
 
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