Guardians of letters : literacy, power, and the transmitters of early Christian literature / Kim Haines-Eitzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haines-Eitzen, Kim, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian literature, Early--Rome--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Transmission of texts--Rome.

Transmission of texts.

Scribes--Rome.

Scribes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book looks at the question of how early Christian literature came to us in its present form. Drawing on literary and archaeological evidence, the author argues that the scribes who copied this early literature were also the users of it.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ""I COPIED EVERYTHING LETTER BY LETTER"": Locating the Copyists of Early Christian Literature; 2 ""GIRLS TRAINED FOR BEAUTIFUL WRITING"": Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity; 3 ""FOR I COULD NOT FIND THE SYLLABLES"": The Education and Training of Early Christian Scribes; 4 ""MAKE AND SEND ME COPIES"": Private Scribal Networks and the Transmission of Early Christian Literature; 5 ""I AM THE GUARDIAN OF LETTERS"": Contested Readings, Authoritative Texts, and Early Christian Scribes; CONCLUSION; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773945-8

1-280-47340-1

0-19-535054-5

1-4237-6059-X

OCLC:

476025357