ISBN:
9789004682337
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (327 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024
Series Statement:
Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 33
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt
DDC:
306.44609476
Keywords:
Multilingualism
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The volume explores linguistic practices and choices in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean. It investigates how linguistic diversity and change influenced the social dimension of human interaction, affected group dynamics, the expression and negotiation of various communal identities, such as professional groups of mosaic-makers, stonecutters, or their supervisors in North Syria, bilingual monastic communities in Palestine, elusive producers of Coptic ritual texts in Egypt, or Jewish communities in Dura Europos and Palmyra. The key question is: what do we learn about social groups and human individuals by studying their multilingualism and language practices reflected in epigraphic and other written sources?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
DOI:
110.1163/9789004682337
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