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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 church.
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Church libraries, Early Christian literature, Publication and distribution, Bible, Christian libraries, Books and reading, Books, Church history, History, Christians, Literacy, Bible, publication and distribution, Christian literature, early, history and criticism, Books and reading, history, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, History and criticism, Latin authors, PublishingShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts
1995, Yale University Press
Hardcover
in English
0300060246 9780300060249
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