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ancient literacy
Ancient Rome
Aramaic Targum
Author_John Sawyer
BCE
ben
bible
bilingualism in religious texts
books
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canon formation processes
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Common Language
Communicat Ion
Copt Ic
dead
Dead Sea Scrolls
EHYEH ASHER EHYEH
Eighth Century BCE
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Great Ecumenical Councils
Greco-Roman religions
hebrew
Independent Woman
John Wycliffe
Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Lucius Calpurnius Piso
Ludi Saeculares
oracles
Oral Utterance
Original Language
OTP
Rabbinic Exegesis
religious linguistics
ritual language theory
Sacred Language
Scots Gaelic
scriptural translation studies
scrolls
sea
sibylline
Sortes Virgilianae
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415125468
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts is the first comprehensive study of the role of languages and texts in the religions of the Greco-Roman world, including Judaism and Christianity.
It explores bilingualism, language learning, literacy, book production and translation, as well as some of the more explicitly religious factors, including beliefs about language, missionary zeal, ritual, conservatism and the power of a priestly establishment.
Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts sheds new light on the role of the power of words, spoken and written, in religion.
Professor John Sawyer, formerly Head of Religious Studies at Newcastle University, is now Senior Research Fellow in Hebrew and Biblical Interpretation at Lancaster University. He is the author of The Fifth Gospel. Isaiah in the History of Christianity (1996) and the Religion Editor of the ten-volume Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (1994).
