
When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars...

'Christianity and the Transformation of the Book' combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organising scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of the Roman Palestine...