Dating Eusebius' Quaestiones ad Stephanum

The Quaestiones ad Stephanum remains a minor work in the Eusebian corpus. This didactic text addresses incongruent details in the genealogical narratives of Matthew and Luke. Modern attempts to date the composition of the work have yielded variable results between the years of the persecution and the early-320s, and are primarily founded on reconciling cross-references between this text ant the Demonstratio euangelica, often considered to be the only useful evidence for obtaining a relative date. I offer new approaches to securing a more reliable date that include demonstration an observable evolution in Eusebius’ thinking based on thematic parallels with his Historia ecclesiastica and reassessing the text’s connection with the Demonstratio euangelica.