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The (CUA Studies in Early Christianity) Early Christian Book.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CUA Studies in Early Christianity SeriesPublisher: Washington, D. C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (357 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813220642
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The (CUA Studies in Early Christianity) Early Christian BookDDC classification:
  • 002.088/2701
LOC classification:
  • BR67
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: From Binding to Burning - Philip Rousseau -- I. Making the Book -- 1. The Word Made Visible: The Exterior of the Early Christian Book as Visual Argument - John Lowden -- 2. Books and Book Production in the Monastic Communities of Byzantine Egypt - Chrysi Kotsifou -- II. Constructing Texts -- 3. Talmud and "Fathers of the Church": Theologies and the Making of Books - Daniel Boyarin -- 4. The Syriac Book of Women: Text and Metatext - Catherine Burris -- III. Passages and Places -- 5. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Jerome Inside the Book - Catherine M. Chin -- 6. City of Books: Augustine and the World as Text - Gillian Clark -- IV. Ceremony and the Law -- 7. Judging by the Book: Christian Codices and Late Antique Legal Culture - Caroline Humfress -- 8. The Symbolics of Book Burning: The Establishment of a Christian Ritual of Persecution - Daniel Sarefield -- V. Texts and the Body -- 9. Engendering Palimpsests: Reading the Textual Tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla - Kim Haines-Eitzen -- 10. Holy Texts, Holy Men, and Holy Scribes: Aspects of Scriptural Holiness in Late Antiquity - Claudia Rapp -- VI. Theory and the Book -- 11. Sanctum, Lector, Percense Volumen: Snakes, Readers, and the Whole Text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia - Catherine Conybeare -- 12. Theory, or the Dream of the Book (Mallarmé to Blanchot) - Mark Vessey -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: From Binding to Burning - Philip Rousseau -- I. Making the Book -- 1. The Word Made Visible: The Exterior of the Early Christian Book as Visual Argument - John Lowden -- 2. Books and Book Production in the Monastic Communities of Byzantine Egypt - Chrysi Kotsifou -- II. Constructing Texts -- 3. Talmud and "Fathers of the Church": Theologies and the Making of Books - Daniel Boyarin -- 4. The Syriac Book of Women: Text and Metatext - Catherine Burris -- III. Passages and Places -- 5. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Jerome Inside the Book - Catherine M. Chin -- 6. City of Books: Augustine and the World as Text - Gillian Clark -- IV. Ceremony and the Law -- 7. Judging by the Book: Christian Codices and Late Antique Legal Culture - Caroline Humfress -- 8. The Symbolics of Book Burning: The Establishment of a Christian Ritual of Persecution - Daniel Sarefield -- V. Texts and the Body -- 9. Engendering Palimpsests: Reading the Textual Tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla - Kim Haines-Eitzen -- 10. Holy Texts, Holy Men, and Holy Scribes: Aspects of Scriptural Holiness in Late Antiquity - Claudia Rapp -- VI. Theory and the Book -- 11. Sanctum, Lector, Percense Volumen: Snakes, Readers, and the Whole Text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia - Catherine Conybeare -- 12. Theory, or the Dream of the Book (Mallarmé to Blanchot) - Mark Vessey -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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