PBI futures
PBI will not be coming to
Iowa in 2005. This makes the PBI future even more interesting.
pulp news
The
DieuDonne website is an adventure. ePulp has just begun electronic circulation.
books before printing
The contract between Heaven and Earth was transacted by scribes with an agenda. For a magnificent story of a diversity of beliefs that were almost lost to disturbances in the chain of scribal transmission and to organized corruption of texts, read Bart Ehrman’s book
Lost Christianities.
“This may simply be due to an accident of history, that our surviving remains are principally textual. But there may be more to it than that, for it appears that most, possibly all, of the groups of early Christianity placed a high premium on texts, making the use of literature a key element in the conflicts that were raging, as members of various groups wrote polemic tractates attacking their opponents, forged documents in the names of apostles to provide authorization for their own points of view, falsified writings that were in circulation in order to make them more acceptable for their own purposes, and collected groups of writings together as sacred authorities in support of their own perspectives.”