Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: From Binding to Burning - Philip Rousseau
I. Making the Book
1. The Word Made Visible: The Exterior of the Early Christian Book as Visual Argument - John Lowden
2. Books and Book Production in the Monastic Communities of Byzantine Egypt - Chrysi Kotsifou
II. Constructing Texts
3. Talmud and “Fathers of the Church”: Theologies and the Making of Books - Daniel Boyarin
4. The Syriac Book of Women: Text and Metatext - Catherine Burris
III. Passages and Places
5. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Jerome Inside the Book - Catherine M. Chin
6. City of Books: Augustine and the World as Text - Gillian Clark
IV. Ceremony and the Law
7. Judging by the Book: Christian Codices and Late Antique Legal Culture - Caroline Humfress
8. The Symbolics of Book Burning: The Establishment of a Christian Ritual of Persecution - Daniel Sarefield
V. Texts and the Body
9. Engendering Palimpsests: Reading the Textual Tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla - Kim Haines-Eitzen
10. Holy Texts, Holy Men, and Holy Scribes: Aspects of Scriptural Holiness in Late Antiquity - Claudia Rapp
VI. Theory and the Book
11. Sanctum, Lector, Percense Volumen: Snakes, Readers, and the Whole Text in Prudentius’s Hamartigenia - Catherine Conybeare
12. Theory, or the Dream of the Book (Mallarmé to Blanchot) - Mark Vessey
Bibliography
Contributors
Index