Books and Readers in the Early Church
Subtitle: A History of Early Christian Texts
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 23, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780300069181
Subjects: Biblical concordances & commentaries; Early Church; Social history; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Books & Reading; Christianity - General; Christianity - History - General; Religion / General; Religion - Church History; English; Religion
First sentence: So wrote the Christian scholar Origen of Alexandria in the third century in defending the Gospels against the pagan critic Celsus, who faulted them for their lack of literary distinction and characterized their authors as ignorant men who "had not even had a primary education."