TY  - BOOK
AU  - Minets,Yuliya
AU  - Nowakowski,Paweł
TI  - Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt
T2  - Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024
SN  - 9789004682337
AV  - P115 
U1  - 417.709394 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Multilingualism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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?
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004682337
ER  -