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200 10$aGuardians of letters $eliteracy, power, and the transmitters of early Christian literature /$fKim Haines-Eitzen
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023.
215   $a1 online resource (223 p.)
225 1 $aOxford scholarship online
300   $aPreviously issued in print: 2000.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ""I COPIED EVERYTHING LETTER BY LETTER"": Locating the Copyists of Early Christian Literature; 2 ""GIRLS TRAINED FOR BEAUTIFUL WRITING"": Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity; 3 ""FOR I COULD NOT FIND THE SYLLABLES"": The Education and Training of Early Christian Scribes; 4 ""MAKE AND SEND ME COPIES"": Private Scribal Networks and the Transmission of Early Christian Literature; 5 ""I AM THE GUARDIAN OF LETTERS"": Contested Readings, Authoritative Texts, and Early Christian Scribes; CONCLUSION; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
330 8 $aThis book looks at the question of how early Christian literature came to us in its present form. Drawing on literary and archaeological evidence, the author argues that the scribes who copied this early literature were also the users of it.
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