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Introduction : from binding to burning / Philip Rousseau
Making the book
The word made visible : the exterior of the early Christian book as visual argument / John Lowden
Books and book production in the monastic communities of Byzantine Egypt / Chrysi Kotsifou
Constructing texts
Talmud and "fathers of the church" : theologies and the making of books / Daniel Boyarin
The Syriac Book of women : text and metatext / Catherine Burris
Passages and places
Through the looking glass darkly : Jerome inside the book / Catherine M. Chin
City of books : Augustine and the world as text / Gillian Clark
Ceremony and the law
Judging by the book : Christian codices and late antique legal culture / Caroline Humfress
The symbolics of bookburning : the establishment of a Christian ritual of persecution / Daniel Sarefield
Texts and the body
Engendering palimpsests : reading the textual tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Kim Haines-Eitzen
Holy texts, holy men, and holy scribes : aspects of Scriptural holiness in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp
Theory and the book
Sanctum, lector, percense volumen : snakes, readers, and the whole text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia / Catherine Conybeare
Theory, or the dream of the book (Mallarmé to Blanchot) / Mark Vessey.
Making the book
The word made visible : the exterior of the early Christian book as visual argument / John Lowden
Books and book production in the monastic communities of Byzantine Egypt / Chrysi Kotsifou
Constructing texts
Talmud and "fathers of the church" : theologies and the making of books / Daniel Boyarin
The Syriac Book of women : text and metatext / Catherine Burris
Passages and places
Through the looking glass darkly : Jerome inside the book / Catherine M. Chin
City of books : Augustine and the world as text / Gillian Clark
Ceremony and the law
Judging by the book : Christian codices and late antique legal culture / Caroline Humfress
The symbolics of bookburning : the establishment of a Christian ritual of persecution / Daniel Sarefield
Texts and the body
Engendering palimpsests : reading the textual tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Kim Haines-Eitzen
Holy texts, holy men, and holy scribes : aspects of Scriptural holiness in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp
Theory and the book
Sanctum, lector, percense volumen : snakes, readers, and the whole text in Prudentius's Hamartigenia / Catherine Conybeare
Theory, or the dream of the book (Mallarmé to Blanchot) / Mark Vessey.