The early codex book: recovering its cosmopolitan consequences

Title: The early codex book: recovering its cosmopolitan consequences
Creator: Stanley, Timothy
Relation: Biblical Interpretation Vol. 23, Issue 3, p. 369-398
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00233P04
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: In 1933 Frederic Kenyon was one of the first to note the early Christian addiction to codex books. As later scholars confirmed, Christian communities reproduced their sacred literature in a way that differed from the largely scrolled Greco-Roman as well as Jewish bibliographic cultures of the first centuries of the Common Era. Book historians and scholars of biblical literature alike have developed a range of competing theories in order to better understand this peculiarity. By evaluating their claims, a number of clarifications can be made in order to demonstrate the codex's sensitivity to Jewish scribal practices as well as its capacity to include a cosmopolitan diversity of texts. Through these clarifications the codex book form itself can provide vital interpretative insights into early biblical literature and the longer history of the book today.
Subject: codex; Jewish Christian elations; cosmopolitanism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1331947
Identifier: uon:26744
Identifier: ISSN:0927-2569
Language: eng
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