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Why the First Christians Bound Their Scriptures as Books

In the ancient world, serious literature lived on scrolls. Yet among the oldest surviving Christian manuscripts, almost all are codices: stacked pages, folded and stitched, much like the book in your hands. Nobody wrote down why, and the guesses are worth hearing.

YESHVA EditorialNovember 5, 20267 min readEditor: Luciano Olguin

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