Harry Y. Gamble Explained

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Harry Y. Gamble jr. (born in 1941) is an American professor emeritus within the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He retired from full-time teaching in 2014.[1] [2]

Life

Education

Gamble earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Wake Forest University, a Master of Divinity (MDiv) at Duke University and a Master of Arts (MA) at Yale University.[3] From 1970, Gamble holds a PhD from Yale University. His doctoral dissertation is titled: The textual history of the Letter to the Romans.

Teaching

In 1970, Gamble joined the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia (Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity). From 1992 to 2006, Gamble chaired the department, and he retired from full-time teaching in 2014.[4]

Contributions

His research was on the topic of the development of the New Testament, particularly "the extent of Literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between Oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes."[2] [5] [6] [7]

Published works

Thesis

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Books and Readers in the Premodern World: Essays in Honor of Harry Gamble. 1081360401. 9780884143291. vii. Karl Shuve. Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement. 12. 2018. Society of Biblical Literature. j.cdb2hnsqz.
  2. Web site: Books and Readers in the Early Church. A History of Early Christian Texts. Harry Y. Gamble. Yale University Press. 2021-07-22.
  3. Web site: Harry Gamble. Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies. Department of Religious Studies. UVA Arts & Sciences. 2021-07-22. 2021-12-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20211206033858/https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/hyg. dead.
  4. Web site: Gregory Stackpole. Into the Clarities, nearer the light, into the clarities come. 15 January 2019. Harry Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church, Introduction.
  5. Charles M. Odahl. Book Review of Harry Y. Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church: a History of Early Christian Texts, Yale University Press, 1995, in The Ancient World. 27. 2. 1996. 243.
  6. Review of Harry G. Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts, Yale, 1995, in JR 77. 1999. Joseph W. Trigg. The Journal of Religion.
  7. Book: The Codex and Literacy in Early Christianity and at Oxyrhynchus: Issues Raised by Harry Y. Gamble's Books and Readers in the Early Church. Eldon Jay Epp. Novum Testamentum, Supplements. 116. Perspectives on New Testament Textual Criticism, Collected Essays, 1962-2004. 1 January 2005. 521–550. Brill. 9789004142466. 10.1163/9789047406952_020.