The slow fall of Babel: languages and identities in late antique Christianity
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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK New York
Cambridge University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Late Antiquity
/ Language
/ Identity
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Christian civilization
History To 1500 (Mediterranean Region)
B Group Identity History To 1500 (Mediterranean Region) B Christian civilization (Mediterranean Region) History To 1500 B Christian literature, Early History and criticism B Other (Philosophy) Religious aspects Christianity B Group Identity (Mediterranean Region) History To 1500 B Language and languages Religious aspects Christianity B Classical literature History and criticism |
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| Summary: | 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? "This is the story of the transformation of the ways in which the increasingly Christianized elites of the late antique Mediterranean experienced and conceptualized linguistic differences. The metaphor of Babel stands for the magnificent edifice of classical culture that was about to reach the sky, but remained self-sufficient and selfcontained in its virtual monolingualism - the paradigm within which even Latin was occasionally considered just a dialect of Greek. The gradual erosion of this vision is the slow fall of Babel that took place in the hearts and minds of a good number of early Christian writers and intellectuals who represented various languages and literary traditions. This step-by-step process included the discovery and internalization of the existence of multiple other languages in the world, as well as subsequent attempts to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1108833462 |