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- Title
Literate Media in Early Christ Groups: The Creation of a Christian Book Culture.
- Authors
KLOPPENBORG, JOHN S.
- Abstract
The full emergence of Christian book culture in the fourth century was anticipated and prepared for by a series of developments in the second century: by presenting (anachronistically) the early heroes of the Jesus movement as skilled literate communicators; by the emergence of "textual communities" formed around the reading, study, and preservation of books; by valorizing literate culture through the embedding of allusions to books and book culture in Christian documents; and in the very construction of early Christian scriptural documents so as to render them more easily accessible to sub-elite readers.
- Subjects
EARLY Christian literature; PRIMITIVE &; early church, ca. 30-600; RELIGION &; literature; CHRISTIANITY &; literature; JESUS movement (Ancient Israel); PRESERVATION of books; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2014, Vol 22, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1067-6341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/earl.2014.0004