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| Author | : Brent Nongbri |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2018-08-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0300240988 |
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A provocative book from a highly original scholar, challenging much of what we know about early Christian manuscripts In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars have expended much effort in their study of the texts contained within our earliest Christian manuscripts, there has been a surprising lack of interest in thinking about these books as material objects with individual, unique histories. We have too often ignored the ways that the antiquities market obscures our knowledge of the origins of these manuscripts. Through painstaking archival research and detailed studies of our most important collections of early Christian manuscripts, Nongbri vividly shows how the earliest Christian books are more than just carriers of texts or samples of handwriting. They are three-dimensional archaeological artifacts with fascinating stories to tell, if we’re willing to listen.
| Author | : Thomas J Kraus |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2010-09-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004194347 |
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The authors of the nine essays in this collection deal with individual or certain sets of manuscripts in order to demonstrate that approach and method are both crucial and pivotal aspects for a sound investigations. Thus, the essays serve as a variety of approaches destined by their topics, but all of them concerned about acknowledged methods.
| Author | : Larry W. Hurtado |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2006-11-02 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0802828957 |
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Review: "Much attention has been paid to the words of the earliest Christian canonical and extracanonical texts, yet Larry Hurtado points out that an even more telling story is being overlooked - the story of the physical texts themselves. He introduces readers to the staurogram, possibly the first representation of the cross, the nomina sacra, a textual abbreviation system, and the puzzling Christian preference for book-like texts over scrolls." "Drawing on studies by papyrologists and palaeographers as well as New Testament scholars - and including photographic plates of selected manuscripts - The Earliest Christian Artifacts examines the distinctive physical features of early Christian manuscripts, illustrating their relevance for wider inquiry into the complex origins of Christianity." -- book jacket.
| Author | : Roger S. Bagnall |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2021-07-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1400833787 |
Download Early Christian Books in Egypt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt. Scholars have cited these papyrus manuscripts--containing the Bible and other Christian works--as evidence of Christianity's presence in that historic area during the first three centuries AD. In Early Christian Books in Egypt, distinguished papyrologist Roger Bagnall shows that a great deal of this discussion and scholarship has been misdirected, biased, and at odds with the realities of the ancient world. Providing a detailed picture of the social, economic, and intellectual climate in which these manuscripts were written and circulated, he reveals that the number of Christian books from this period is likely fewer than previously believed. Bagnall explains why papyrus manuscripts have routinely been dated too early, how the role of Christians in the history of the codex has been misrepresented, and how the place of books in ancient society has been misunderstood. The author offers a realistic reappraisal of the number of Christians in Egypt during early Christianity, and provides a thorough picture of the economics of book production during the period in order to determine the number of Christian papyri likely to have existed. Supporting a more conservative approach to dating surviving papyri, Bagnall examines the dramatic consequences of these findings for the historical understanding of the Christian church in Egypt.
| Author | : Andrew Bernhard |
| Publisher | : T&T Clark |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2007-11-27 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Download Other Early Christian Gospels Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Other Early Christian Gospels collects all the recently-recovered Greek manuscripts containing parts of long-lost early Christian gospels into a single volume.
| Author | : British Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9780712349987 |
Download Codex Sinaiticus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two oldest manuscripts of the whole Bible. No other early manuscript of the Christian Bible has been so extensively corrected, and the significance of Codex Sinaiticus for the reconstruction of the Christian Bible's original text, the history of the Bible and the history of western book making is immense. Since 2002, a major international project has been creating an electronic version of the manuscript. This magnificent printed facsimile reunites the text, now divided between the British Library, the National Library of Russia, St Catherine's Monastery, Mt Sinai and Leipzig University Library.
| Author | : Harry Y. Gamble |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780300069181 |
Download Books and Readers in the Early Church Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.
| Author | : Birger Gerhardsson |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9780802843661 |
Download Memory and Manuscript Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here in one volume are two of Birger Gerhardsson's much-debated works on the transmission of tradition in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. In Memory and Manuscript (1961), Gerhardsson explores the way in which Jewish rabbis during the first Christian centuries preserved and passed on their sacred tradition, and he shows how early Christianity is better understood in light of how that tradition developed in Rabbinic Judaism. In Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity (1964), Gerhardsson further clarifies the discussion and answers criticism of his earlier book. This Biblical Resource Series combined edition corrects and expands Gerhardsson's original works and includes a new preface by the author and a lengthy new foreword by Jacob Neusner that summarizes these works' importance and subsequent influence.
| Author | : Thomas J Kraus |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2010-09-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004182659 |
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The authors of the nine essays in this collection deal with individual or certain sets of manuscripts in order to demonstrate that approach and method are both crucial and pivotal aspects for a sound investigations. Thus, the essays serve as a variety of approaches destined by their topics, but all of them concerned about acknowledged methods.
| Author | : D. C. Parker |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-07-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780521719896 |
Download An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a major English-language introduction to the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament. An essential handbook for scholars and students, it provides a thorough grounding in the study and editing of the New Testament text combined with an emphasis on the dramatic current developments in the field. Covering ancient sources in Greek, Syriac, Latin and Coptic, it: • Describes the manuscripts and other ancient textual evidence, and the tools needed to study them • Deals with textual criticism and textual editing, describing modern approaches and techniques, with guidance on the use of editions • Introduces the witnesses and textual study of each of the main sections of the New Testament, discussing typical variants and their significance. A companion website with full-colour images provides generous amounts of illustrative material, bringing the subject alive for the reader.
