In New Testament scholarship it has been popular to attribute canonical motivations to the early Christian preference for the codex. Michael...

The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity: Its Formation, Publication, and Circulation. By Benjamin P. Laird. Peabody: Hendrickson Academic, ...

Released today is an interview I did with Jamie Tibke host of The Hardcore Humanities Podcast.  The interview can be found on Spotify and Ap...

  Add. 40165 A   4th century fragments of Cyprians letters   used as flyleaves for a 12th-century Latin manuscript At around 250 CE Cyprian,...

In Brian J. Wright's excellent book "Communial Reading in the Time of Jesus" he mentions an account found in Acts 19:11-20 ...

In his excellent book "The Gospel as Manuscript," Chris Keith makes reference to a passage in The Epistle of Diognetus in the...

Brian J. Wright has published an excellent book that covers, quite exhaustively, communal reading events in the first century; Communal R...

I have been slowly reading through Brian J Wright’s excellent new book “ Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus: A Window into Early Chri...

In a recent issue of " Expository Times, " Christfried Böttrich of Greifswald University (Germany) published an article on the Cod...

Sometime at the end of the first or beginning of the second century CE (AD), the Roman statesman Pliny the Younger wrote to Suetonius urgi...

Lucian (125-180 CE) was a Syrian satirist and author who wrote his works in Greek and was from the Roman city of Samosata on the banks of th...

The Papyrus Plant along the Nile River As I was reading a paper on the oldest fragment of a Cicero manuscript, I came across a rare refe...

A previous post discussed the importance of reading out a text in the proper manner in elite literate circles of Greco-Roman society. It ...

The following excerpt originally appeared in The Appalachian Theology Review , (an email periodical) on June 15, 2015.       The Roman b...