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T. B. Sailors
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Specialist in the academic study of ancient Christianity and its literature.
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Hands off Chicago, mit der Flagge von Chicago.
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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It's an honor to be back @albrightinstitute.bsky.social as a research fellow. Everyone's welcome to my Albright lecture, Rethinking the Early Christian Book, 14 May, in person & via Zoom. Examining some dubious models of the ancient Christian use of the codex vs. the scroll.
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Flyer for a lecture by Timothy B. Sailors (with a QR code for the Zoom meeting). The early history of the codex and its increasing prominence in antiquity over against the scroll have frequently been tied by modern scholarship to its use in early Christianity and the spread of that religion throughout the Mediterranean. This led to reciprocal influence between academic work on ancient Christian book culture, on the one hand, and work on papyrology and early codicology, on the other. Some assumptions underlying this enterprise, however, are at best dubious. Hypotheses of a Christian preference for the codex and of a link between this ostensible preference and writings ancient Christians regarded as “scripture” are highly methodologically problematic. Indeed, a fundamental rethinking of the early Christian book is required, one that incorporates all relevant literary and manuscript evidence.
April 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM