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The Bible as book: the manuscript tradition

The Bible as book: the manuscript tradition
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ISBN 0712345221 (British Library)
1884718388 (Oak Knoll)
Title The Bible as book : the manuscript tradition / edited by John L. Sharpe III and Kimberly Van Kampen
Publisher London ; New Castle, DE : British Library ; Oak Knoll Press, in association with The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities, 1998
Physical desc. xi, 260 p., [32] p. of plates ; ill. (b&w) ; 26 cm.
Note Collection of papers based on a conference held in Hampton Court, Herefordshire, in May 1995, and sponsored by the Scriptorium, Center for Christian Antiquities.
First of three volumes
Volunteer Reading List [Western]
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-250) and indexes
Contents Introduction / John Sharpe, Scot McKendrick, and Kimberly Van Kampen. -- 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.
Subject Bible Manuscripts -- Congresses
Bible Criticism, Textual -- Congresses
Books History -- Congresses
Added name(s) Sharpe, John L. (John Lawrence)
Van Kampen, Kimberly
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