The early saints

All liibrrarians and educators. Their whole point was the pursuit of the one word, mainly he lucrative business of running libraries. It was, at the time

According to the Roman Varro and Pliny's Natural History, vellum and parchment were invented under the patronage of Eumenes of Pergamum, as a substitute for papyrus, which was temporarily not being exported from Alexandria, its only source., a race, much like today's race in technology. There were the Greeks, the Latins and the Jews.

Parchment had improved, tough writing on animal skin had been around.  200 years after this story parchment has advance and the race was on to control the oral dictionary.  The Hellenists vs the Latinists vs the Jews.  This is extremely lucrative because trade and commerce accelerate.

Scribes knew this was booming business, hence the interest in Greek literature, it was the ultimate source.