And the Winner Is….
Posted by Chuck Grantham on January 10, 2012
The Earliest Christian Artifacts by Larry Hurtado, which has become the first book I read on Kindle.
While the chapters on the nomina sacra and the staurogram have some interest, it’s probably true that this is not a book even for the general bible-interested public. The topic of how much we can learn for early Christian history from ancient Christian manuscripts is not for anyone who has yet to get past NA27/UBS4. And if you don’t know what those are, well….
The one thing I did learn was that I have to read Lord Jesus Christ:Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity, as Hurtado manages to footnote it almost constantly.
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Nick Norelli said
Yes, you really do have to read LJC! I don’t know how you’ve managed to get this far without it.
Chuck Grantham said
768 pages is how I’ve gotten by so far. Shorter books with self-contained chapters are real appealing these days. Thus the essay collections I’ve got on Kindle.
Hurtado also pushes Harry Gamble’s Books and Readers in the Early Church quite a bit.