The Early Church Used “New Technology”

Jesus’ first followers were at the forefront of a new kind of textual technology. From quite early on they used the codex, with sheets stuck together to comprise something like a modern book, rather than the scroll, which couldn’t hold nearly so much and which was hard to use if you wanted to look up particular passages.

In fact, though the codex had been in use already, the type the early Christians developed was more user-friendly than…