Neuedition der sogenannten Akten des sogenannten Konzils von Cäsarea zum Ostertermin und Fastenfragen

Abstract With regard to the debate about the date of Easter around the year 200 A. D., Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica 5,23–25 refers to a council held in Palestine. This council appears to be referred to in a short passage within manuscripts containing works of Bede and Isidor or computistic texts. Yet there are differing versions of this text and the various publications containing and referring to it since the 16th century provide a confusing picture, with some dismissing it as a forgery. It can be assumed that one of these versions is a later reworking of the other, which in turn has never been published in its original form yet. After viewing these publications and the additional information contained therein, a search for manuscripts containing the texts was conducted. These were collated and the text of the two main versions constituted. While the first version as it is now available in the manuscripts also shows alterations of a later stage and cannot be dated earlier than the end of the 4th century, there is no reason not to assume the core of the text to be a contemporary or not much later recollection of a council in Palestine which dealt with the date of Easter, possibly as part of written correspondence regarding the issue as reported by Eusebius.