God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts

God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
ISBN-10
030021541X
ISBN-13
9780300215410
Series
God's Library
Category
Religion
Pages
403
Language
English
Published
2018-08-21
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
Brent Nongbri

Description

In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars have expended much effort in their study of the texts contained within the earliest Christian manuscripts, there has been a surprising lack of interest in thinking about these books as material objects with individual, unique histories. We have too often ignored the ways that the antiquities market obscures our knowledge of the origins of these manuscripts. Through painstaking archival research and detailed studies of the most important collections of early Christian manuscripts, Nongbri vividly shows that the earliest Christian books are more than just carriers of texts or samples of handwriting. They are three-dimensional archaeological artifacts with fascinating stories to tell, if we’re willing to listen.

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