Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The scope of this work begins with an examination of the methodology of the scribes who produced the Dead Sea Scrolls. It concludes with new evidence for the propagation of the Scriptures some 15 centuries later, at the dawn of the age of printing. Co-published with The British Library.
Table of Contents
Scribal practices and physical aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Emanuel Tov -- The Christian book in Egypt: innovation and the Coptic tradition / Stephen Emmel -- Early Christian libraries / Bastiaan Van Elderen -- The creation of the great codices / T.S. Pattie -- Gospel harmony and the names of Christ in the Book of Kells / Jennifer O'Reilly -- The Psalms in the Irish church: the most recent research on text, commentary, and decoration--with emphasis on the so-called Psalter of Charlemagne / Martin McNamara -- A Northumbrian text family / Christopher Verey -- Cultural transmission: illustrated biblical manuscripts from the medieval Eastern Christian and Arab worlds / Lucy-Anne Hunt -- Books of Hours: imaging the Word / Christopher de Hamel -- 'Ask what I am called': the Anglo-Saxons and their Bibles / Richard Marsden -- Lay literacy, the democratization of God's Law and the Lollards / Christina von Nolcken -- Some representations of the Book and book-making, from the earliest codex forms through Jost Amman / Christopher Clarkson -- The Armenian bookmaking tradition in the Christian East: a comparison with the Syriac and Greek traditions / Sylvie L. Merian -- The image as exegetical tool: paintings in medieval Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible / Gabrielle Sed-Rajna -- The theology of the Word made flesh / Andrew Louth.