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Roger Bagnall demonstrates that much of the discussion on Christians and Christian manuscripts in Egypt during the first to third centuries is based on erroneous dating of papyri, misconceptions on the role of Christians in the history of codices and the place of books in Antiquity. Bagnall realistically evaluates the number of Christians in Egypt, underlining how faulty dating practices exaggerate the number of Christian papyri from the first centuries. This book develops the profound repercussions of sound dating on the history of the Church in Egypt. French text.