Kim Haines-Eitzen

Scholar of early Christianity and manuscript culture, known for studies of scribes, textual transmission, and gender in early Christian literature; professor at Cornell University.

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  1. 1. Guardians Of Letters

    Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature

    A socio-historical study of the scribes and copyists who produced and circulated early Christian writings, showing how their labor, networks, and institutional affiliations shaped which texts survived and how they were transmitted. Drawing on papyri, colophons, and documentary evidence from late antique Egypt and the wider Mediterranean, it highlights the roles of gender, economics, and ecclesiastical politics in manuscript production, and argues that debates over authority and orthodoxy informed practices of copying, correction, and attribution.

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