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The early Christian book /edited by William E. Klingshirn and Linda Safran.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages, 28. pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813220642
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BR67 .E275 2007
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographies 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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