The early Christian book / edited by William E. Klingshirn & Linda Safran. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages, [28] pages of plates) : illustrations. - CUA studies in early Christianity . - CUA studies in early Christianity. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-305) and index.

Introduction : from binding to burning / Philip Rousseau -- Making the book -- The word made visible : the exterior of the early Christian book as visual argument / John Lowden -- Books and book production in the monastic communities of Byzantine Egypt / Chrysi Kotsifou -- Constructing texts -- Talmud and "fathers of the church" : theologies and the making of books / Daniel Boyarin -- The Syriac Book of women : text and metatext / Catherine Burris -- Passages and places -- Through the looking glass darkly : Jerome inside the book / Catherine M. Chin -- City of books : Augustine and the world as text / Gillian Clark -- Ceremony and the law -- Judging by the book : Christian codices and late antique legal culture / Caroline Humfress -- The symbolics of bookburning : the establishment of a Christian ritual of persecution / Daniel Sarefield -- Texts and the body -- Engendering palimpsests : reading the textual tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Holy texts, holy men, and holy scribes : aspects of Scriptural holiness in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp -- Theory and the book -- Sanctum, lector, percense volumen : snakes, readers, and the whole text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia / Catherine Conybeare -- Theory, or the dream of the book (Mallarmé to Blanchot) / Mark Vessey.

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Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early--Publishing.
Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early--Publishing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Publishing.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Books & Reading.
Christian literature, Early.
Christian literature, Early--Publishing.
Handschriften.
Vroege christendom.
Buchproduktion
Christliche Literatur


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

BR67 / .E27 2007eb

002.088/2701