Scribes and Their Remains (Hardcover)

Editors Introduction Abbreviations Text as Artifact: An Introduction - Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada Part I: Scribes, Letters, and Literacy 1. Longevity of Late Antique Autographs and First Copies: A Postscriptum - Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University, USA 2. Greek Writ Plain: Village Scribes, Q, and the Palaeography of the Earliest Christian Papyri - Gregg Schwendner, Wichita State University, USA 3. My Lord and Protector: Papyri and Skepe Patronage in Sirach and 3 Maccabees - Christopher J. Cornthwaite, Canadian Institute in Greece, Greece 4. Hilarion's Letter to His Wife, Child Exposure, and Early Christianity - Jeremiah J. Johnston, Houston Baptist University, USA 5. Fetishizing the Word: Literacy, Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls - Ian C. Werrett, St Martin's University, USA Part II: Writing, Reading, and Abbreviating Christian Scripture 6. Signed with an "X": Stauros and the Staurogram Among the Nomina Sacra - Benjamin R. Overcash, Macquarie University, USA 7. New Light from the Papyri: The Sacred Background of Biblos in Matthew 1:1 - Michael P. Theophilos, Australian Catholic University, Australia 8. The Early Papyri, "Gospel-Parallel" Variants, and the Text of the New Testament in the Second Century - Roy D. Kotansky, Independent Scholar 9. Terms of Kinship from Usage in Everyday Language to Official Christian Life - Eleonora Angela Conti, University of Florence, Italy 10. Early Christian Rolls - Marco Stroppa, University of Florence, Italy Index