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Book SynopsisCraig A. Evans is John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University, USA.
Jeremiah J. Johnston is the president of Christian Thinkers Society, USA.
Table of ContentsEditors Introduction Abbreviations Text as Artifact: An Introduction - Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada Part I: Scribes, Letters, and Literacy 1. Longevity of Late Antique Autographs and First Copies: A Postscriptum - Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University, USA 2. Greek Writ Plain: Village Scribes, Q, and the Palaeography of the Earliest Christian Papyri - Gregg Schwendner, Wichita State University, USA 3. My Lord and Protector: Papyri and
Skepe Patronage in Sirach and
3 Maccabees - Christopher J. Cornthwaite, Canadian Institute in Greece, Greece 4. Hilarion’s Letter to His Wife, Child Exposure, and Early Christianity - Jeremiah J. Johnston, Houston Baptist University, USA 5. Fetishizing the Word: Literacy, Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls - Ian C. Werrett, St Martin’s University, USA Part II: Writing, Reading, and Abbreviating Christian Scripture 6. Signed with an “X”: Stauros and the Staurogram Among the
Nomina Sacra - Benjamin R. Overcash, Macquarie University, USA 7. New Light from the Papyri: The Sacred Background of Biblos in Matthew 1:1 - Michael P. Theophilos, Australian Catholic University, Australia 8. The Early Papyri, “Gospel-Parallel” Variants, and the Text of the New Testament in the Second Century - Roy D. Kotansky, Independent Scholar 9. Terms of Kinship from Usage in Everyday Language to Official Christian Life - Eleonora Angela Conti, University of Florence, Italy 10. Early Christian Rolls - Marco Stroppa, University of Florence, Italy Index
