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The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins is unavailable, but you can change that!

Much attention has been paid to the words of the earliest Christian canonical and extracanonical texts, yet Larry Hurtado points out that an even more telling story is being overlooked—the story of the physical texts themselves. Widely recognized for his outstanding scholarship, Hurtado combines his comprehensive knowledge of Christian origins with an archivist’s eye to make sense of these...

4028], see plate 7, appendix 2), a portion of a Gospel-like text of disputed identity (P.Oxy. 4009 [LDAB 4872]), a text of Philo of Alexandria (P.Oxy. 1173 + 1356 + 2158 + PSI 11.1207 and P.Haun. 1.8 [LDAB 3540]), and fragments of the so-called Egerton Gospel (P.Lond.Christ. 1 + P.Köln 6.255 [LDAB 4736]). The remaining 26 second-century Christian codices in my list are all copies of writings from what became the Christian Old Testament or New Testament. This far greater number of biblical texts in
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