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Just read that the earliest known bound books were Buddhist texts from the 1st century AD, found in a cave in Afghanistan.
I always thought the codex was a Roman invention, so this totally flipped my view on bookbinding history, and I'm curious if anyone else has found a fact that changed their understanding of the craft?
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piper_garcia236mo ago
The Nag Hammadi codices from Egypt really shook up my view on early Christian texts.
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hunt.hayden6mo ago
Disagree completely, they just show weird fringe ideas that got tossed out. Most of that stuff reads like bad fan fiction next to the real gospels. Getting all shook up over it seems like a waste of time.
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ryanj106mo ago
Check out the actual texts before dismissing them, hunt.hayden. Reading the Gospel of Thomas made me see how diverse early Christian thought really was. It's not about getting shook up, it's about understanding the whole conversation.
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knight.uma4mo ago
Nag Hammadi is up in Egypt not near it, the codices were found buried by monks.
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