The Gospel as Manuscript: An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact

by Chris Keith

"But the Bible says" is a common enough refrain in many conversations about Christianity. The written verses of the four canonical Gospels are sometimes volleyed back and forth and taken as fact while the apocryphal and oral accounts of the life of Jesus are taken as mere oddities. Early thinkers inside and outside the community of Jesus-followers similarly described a contentious relationship between the oral and the written, though they often focused...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199384371
• ISBN13: 9780199384372
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"