CLCS 185 - Early Christian Books and Their Readers

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as RELI 185) Gospels, letters, accounts of great deeds, and apocalypses are the primary literary genres that the earliest followers of Jesus read and circulated. For the most part, they circulated in a new format, the codex. In this class, we read a selection of these texts–both canonical and apocryphal–and then examine their codex format. Through a variety of writing assignments we make arguments about what the text and its physical form might say about early Christian books and their readers. Debra Bucher.

Two 75-minute periods.