Public Lecture - Timothy B. Sailors - Rethinking the Early Christian Book in the Eastern Med.

Public Lecture:
Timothy B. Sailors, Educational and Cultural Affairs Junior Research Fellow
Title: Rethinking the Early Christian Book in the Eastern Mediterranean

Webinar ID
854 7844 4568
Passcode
489730
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85478444568?pwd=bIsdk5kZ3TBky7RnfEPKsSvHzqxvb2.1

Abstract: The early history of the codex and its increasing prominence over against the scroll have frequently been tied by modern scholars to its use in early Christianity and the spread of that religion throughout the Mediterranean. This led to reciprocal influence between academic work on ancient Christian book culture, on the one hand, and on papyrology and early codicology, on the other. Some assumptions underlying this enterprise, however, are at best dubious. Hypotheses that Christians preferred the codex and that this ostensible preference was linked to writings they held to be “scripture” are highly methodologically problematic. A fundamental rethinking of the early Christian book is required
Bio: Timothy B. Sailors specializes in the academic study of ancient Christianity and its literature. His scholarly work covers the New Testament, textual criticism, the Apostolic Fathers, Christian apocrypha, the Diatessaron, patristics, papyrology and manuscript studies. This research on pre-Nicene Christian writings rests upon his background in classical, Semitic, and Oriental Christian languages.

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