Subject: Re: Responses
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 10:23:14 EDT
An interesting book pertaining to the literacy question:
BOOKS AND READERS IN THE EARLY CHURCH
A History of Early Christian Texts
Harry Y. Gamble
http://www.yale.edu/yup/books/060246.htm
This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive
discussion of the
production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It
explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the
relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials;
the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced,
transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian
libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to
what purposes.
And it's only $40 in hardcover :).
Jim
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