Early Christianity. Vol. 12 (2021), Issue 1: The Material Gospel

Edited by Jens Schröter, Jörg Frey, Teresa Morgan & Clare K. Rothschild.

Six essays, considering the gospel as material object: The gospels have always existed as material texts. In early Christianity, the gospels were implicated in a range of ritual, theological, economic, and political contexts: gospel books were powerful objects. The essays arise from a conference at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, May 2019. - Contents: Chris Keith: The Gospel Read, Sliced, and Burned: The Material Gospel and the Construction of Christian Identity. - Clare K. Rothschild: Galen's De indolentia and the Early Christian Codex. - Jeremiah Coogan: Gospel as Recipe Book: Nonlinear Reading and Practical Texts in Late Antiquity. - Sofía Torallas Tovar: Resisting the Codex: The Christian Use of the Roll in Late Antiquity. - Angela Zautcke: Erasing the Gospels: Sinaiticus Syriacus and Patterns among Syriac Gospel Palimpsests. - Matthew D.C. Larsen: The Real-and-Imagined Biography of a Gospel Manuscript. -- New Discoveries: Annette Weissenrieder and André Luiz Visinoni: The Fragmenta Curiensia (a2) as Witnesses of the Gospel of Luke: Classification and Language. - Gegenstand der (überwiegend englischsprachigen) Zeitschrift ist das frühe Christentum als historisches Phänomen. Sie widmet sich den vielfältigen Aspekten, die die Entstehung der christlichen Schriften vornehmlich der ersten beiden Jahrhunderte, ihre Rezeption sowie die Entstehung eines Corpus für die christliche Kirche verbindlicher Texte betreffen. 156 Seiten, broschiert (Early Christianity; Vol. 12 (2021), Issue 1/Mohr Siebeck 2021) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear