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Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt / edited by Yuliya Minets; Paweł Nowakowski. - 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations. - Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024 Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity ; 33 . - Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024. Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity ; 33. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?


English

ISBN: 9789004682337

Standard No.: 110.1163/9789004682337 DOI

LCCN: 2023048455

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Multilingualism.

LC Class. No.: P115

Dewey Class. No.: 417.709394