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The First Christians Didn’t Own Bibles
Did early Christians have Bibles? For the first several centuries of Christianity, almost no believer owned a Bible, most couldn’t read one, and the complete single-volume Bible barely existed before Constantine. This episode does the math nobody does: a hand-copied Gospel cost about a month’s wages, a full Bible ran the price of a small farm, and it took an imperial budget to put fifty Bibles in one city. So how did a movement of cobblers and laundry women become the most Scripture-saturated community in the ancient world? Through trained memory, public reading, and teenage lectors whose…
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