The slow fall of Babel : languages and identities in late antique Christianity

1. Verfasser: Minets, Yuliya , [VerfasserIn]
Körperschaft: Cambridge University Press
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource ( xvi, 418 pages).
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Mittelmeerregion
Parallelausgabe: Minets, Yuliya., Slow fall of Babel (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781108833462
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Awakening to Linguistic Otherness
  • Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity
  • Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity
  • The Tower of Babel and Beyond: Primordial Linguist Situation, Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification
  • Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity
  • Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness
  • The Languages of Saints and Demons
  • Conclusion: What's in the Language?