BIBLE HISTORY DAILY:
Why Did Early Christians Prefer the Codex to the Bookroll? Early Christian manuscript books (Marek Dospěl). As usual, this BHD column is a summary of a
BAR article: Larry Hurtado, “Early Christian Dilemma: Codex or Scroll?” in the November/December 2018 issue. The full article is behind a subscription wall.
For some past posts on Professor Hurtado's work on scrolls and codices, see
here,
here, and
here.
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