- 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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