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Contents Publisher?s note Acknowledgements Foreword from the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Foreword from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Introduction by Michelle Brown ?Charles Lang Freer as collector of biblical manuscripts? by Ann Gunter The Journey of the Text Chronology Map -------------------------------------- Bible and book by Harry Y. Gamble The Christian Orient by Monica Blanchard Spreading the Word by Michelle P. Brown The book as icon by Herbert L. Kessler ---------------------------------------------------------- Catalogue Discovering the bible Scroll and codex The earliest Hebrew scriptures The earliest Christian scriptures Formation and codification: the evolution of the bible From Babel to Pentecost: ?sacred? languages and the vernaculars Spreading the Word The single-volume bible The book as desert, the scribe as evangelist From Eastern deserts to Western isles Early Christian Britain and Ireland Book as icon Reference Catalogue Manuscripts and Lenders in the Exhibition Glossary and Who¿s Who List of abbreviations Endnotes Bibliography Contributors Photo Credits Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Bible -- History.
Bible -- Manuscripts -- History.
Bible -- Publication and distribution -- History.