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

 - Washington, D.C. :  Catholic University of America Press,  (c)2007. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages, 28. pages of plates) :  illustrations. 
 - CUA studies in early Christianity .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : from binding to burning /  Making the book --  The word made visible : the exterior of the early Christian book as visual argument /  Books and book production in the monastic communities of Byzantine Egypt /  Constructing texts --  Talmud and "fathers of the church" : theologies and the making of books /  The Syriac Book of women : text and metatext /  Passages and places --  Through the looking glass darkly : Jerome inside the book /  City of books : Augustine and the world as text /  Ceremony and the law --  Judging by the book : Christian codices and late antique legal culture /  The symbolics of bookburning : the establishment of a Christian ritual of persecution /  Texts and the body --  Engendering palimpsests : reading the textual tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla /  Holy texts, holy men, and holy scribes : aspects of Scriptural holiness in late antiquity /  Theory and the book --  Sanctum, lector, percense volumen : snakes, readers, and the whole text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia /  Theory, or the dream of the book (Mallarmé to Blanchot) /  Philip Rousseau --  John Lowden --  Chrysi Kotsifou --  Daniel Boyarin --  Catherine Burris --  Catherine M. Chin --  Gillian Clark --  Caroline Humfress --  Daniel Sarefield --  Kim Haines-Eitzen --  Claudia Rapp --  Catherine Conybeare --  Mark Vessey. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813220642 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.<br/>Christian literature, Early--Publishing.<br/>Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.<br/>Christian literature, Early--Publishing.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR67  / .E275 2007