Saucy to Princes
Gerald Hammond: The Bible, 25 July 2002
The Book: A History of the Bible
by Christopher deHamel.
Phaidon, 352 pp., £24.95, September 2001,0 7148 3774 1 Show More
by Christopher deHamel.
Phaidon, 352 pp., £24.95, September 2001,
The Wycliffe New Testament 1388
edited by W.R. Cooper.
British Library, 528 pp., £20, May 2002,0 7123 4728 3 Show More
edited by W.R. Cooper.
British Library, 528 pp., £20, May 2002,
“... was any different. There, in its portable transparent box, was the earliest relic of the Book. In Christopher deHamel’s history, the Rylands fragment is reproduced life-size in the final chapter: life-size but not, to my faulty memory at least, very true to its actual appearance. In the reproduction the papyrus is a ... ”
