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The Bible as book : the manuscript tradition / edited by John L. Sharpe III and Kimberly Van Kampen.

Contributor(s): Molinari, Kimberley | Sharpe, John
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, England : British Library ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xi, 260 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0712345221 (alk. paper); 9780712345224 (alk. paper); 1884718388 (alk. paper); 9781884718380 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible -- Manuscripts -- Congresses | Bible -- Criticism, Textual -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Foreword / Kimberly Van Kampen -- Introduction / John Sharpe, Scot McKendrick, and Kimberly Van Kampen -- Scribal practices and physical aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Emanuel Tov -- The Christian book in Egypt : innovation and the Coptic tradition / Stephen Emmel -- Early Christian libraries / Bastiaan Van Elderen -- The creation of the great codices / T. S. Pattie -- Gospel harmony and the names of Christ in the Book of Kells / Jennifer O'Reilly -- The Psalms in the Irish Church : the most recent research on text, commentary, and decoration--with emphasis on the so-called Psalter of Charlemagne / Martin McNamara -- A Northumbrian text family / Christopher Verey -- Cultural transmission : illustrated biblical manuscripts from the medieval Eastern Christian and Arab worlds / Lucy-Anne Hunt -- Books of hours : imaging the word / Christopher de Hamel -- 'Ask what I am called' : the Anglo-Saxons and their Bibles / Richard Marsden -- Lay literacy, the democratization of God's law and the Lollards / Christina von Nolcken -- Some representations of the book and book-making, from the earliest codex forms through Jost Amman / Christopher Clarkson -- The Armenian bookmaking tradition in the Christian East : a comparison with the Syriac and Greek traditions / Sylvie L. Merian -- The image as exegetical tool : paintings in medieval Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible / Gabrielle Sed-Rajna -- The theology of the word made flesh / Andrew Louth.

Collection of papers based on a conference held in Hampton Court, Herefordshire, in May 1995, and sponsored by the Scriptorium, Center for Christian Antiquities.

Published in association with the Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / Kimberly Van Kampen -- Introduction / John Sharpe, Scot McKendrick, and Kimberly Van Kampen -- Scribal practices and physical aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Emanuel Tov -- The Christian book in Egypt : innovation and the Coptic tradition / Stephen Emmel -- Early Christian libraries / Bastiaan Van Elderen -- The creation of the great codices / T. S. Pattie -- Gospel harmony and the names of Christ in the Book of Kells / Jennifer O'Reilly -- The Psalms in the Irish Church : the most recent research on text, commentary, and decoration--with emphasis on the so-called Psalter of Charlemagne / Martin McNamara -- A Northumbrian text family / Christopher Verey -- Cultural transmission : illustrated biblical manuscripts from the medieval Eastern Christian and Arab worlds / Lucy-Anne Hunt -- Books of hours : imaging the word / Christopher de Hamel -- 'Ask what I am called' : the Anglo-Saxons and their Bibles / Richard Marsden -- Lay literacy, the democratization of God's law and the Lollards / Christina von Nolcken -- Some representations of the book and book-making, from the earliest codex forms through Jost Amman / Christopher Clarkson -- The Armenian bookmaking tradition in the Christian East : a comparison with the Syriac and Greek traditions / Sylvie L. Merian -- The image as exegetical tool : paintings in medieval Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible / Gabrielle Sed-Rajna -- The theology of the word made flesh / Andrew Louth.

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