What Do Miniature Codices Tell Us About Early Christianity? #4
Before the holiday season kicked in, I began a new 5-part series exploring what the phenomenon of miniature codices teaches us about the early Christian movement. This series is designed to draw out some practical implications (for a lay audience) from my new book with Oxford University Press, Miniature Codices in Early Christianity.
Having already done installment #1 and #2, and #3, we now turn to the fourth thing that miniature codices tell us about the early Christian movement. These tiny books demonstrate that early Christians had a very high view of their scriptural books.
What Was the Early Church’s Doctrine of Scripture?
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What Do Miniature Codices Tell Us About Early Christianity? #3
As I mentioned in a prior post, I am in the middle of a new 5-part series exploring what the phenomenon of miniature codices teaches us about the early Christian movement. This series is designed to draw out some practical implications (for a lay audience) from my new book with Oxford University Press, Miniature Codices in Early Christianity.
Having already done installment #1 and #2, we now turn to the third thing that miniature codices tell us about the early Christian movement. These tiny books demonstrate that early Christians were travelers and often traveled with their books.
We Were Voyagers
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What Do Miniature Codices Tell Us About Early Christianity? #2
As I mentioned in a prior post, I am in the middle of a new 5-part series exploring what the phenomenon of miniature codices teaches us about the early Christian movement. This series is designed to draw out some practical implications (for a lay audience) from my new book with Oxford University Press, Miniature Codices in Early Christianity.
Having already done installment #1, we now turn to the second thing that miniature codices tell us about the early Christian movement. These tiny books demonstrate that early Christians may have engaged in private reading more often than we thought.
You Can’t Read!
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New Series: What Do Miniature Codices Tell Us About Early Christianity?
As I mentioned in a prior post, my new book with Oxford University Press is now out in both the UK and US: Miniature Codices in Early Christianity. It’s part of Oxford’s long-standing Early Christian Studies series.
I have been working on the subject of miniature codices for more than twenty years now, ever since doing my thesis a while ago under Larry Hurtado on the apocryphal gospel fragment, P.Oxy. 840. I have also written on the miniature codex P.Ant. 12 (0232) which contains 2 John (see here), and a recent overview article on miniature codices in Paratextual Features in Early New Testament Papyri and Manuscripts, eds. … Continue reading...