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The early Christian book / edited by William E. Klingshirn & Linda Safran.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- CUA studies in early Christianity.
- CUA studies in early Christianity
- CUA Studies in Early Christianity Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, Early.
- Christian literature, Early--Publishing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Written by experts in the field, the essays in this volume examine the early Christian book from a wide range of disciplines: religion, art history, history, Near Eastern studies, and classics.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-305) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-2064-5
- 0-8132-1531-5
- OCLC:
- 815970281
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