The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity
Explores how early Christianity sought to define its relationship to speakers of foreign languages
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| 505 | 8 | |a Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Awakening to Linguistic Otherness -- CHAPTER 1 Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity -- The Bilingual Roman Empire -- The Near East Broadly Understood -- Egypt -- North Africa -- Europe and the Balkans -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 2 Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity -- Languages in Ancient Greek Epics, Tragedies, and Comedies -- Herodotus and Beyond: Historical Narratives on Foreign Languages -- Foreign Languages in Philosophical Inquiries -- Hellenism: Assimilation of the Other -- The Roman Era: From a Monolingual to a Bilingual Antiquity -- Foreign Languages in Hellenistic Literature and Beyond -- Languages in Ancient Judaism: The Second Temple Period -- Hellenistic Judaism: Philo of Alexandria -- Languages in Ancient Judaism: The Rabbinic Period -- Languages of Revelation and Multilingualism in Rabbinic Literature -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 3 The Tower of Babel and Beyond: The Primordial Linguistic Situation, the Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification -- The Confusing Confusion: Making Sense of Babel -- Hebrew and Primordial Unilingualism -- Christianizing ''Hebrew'' -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (1): Hebrew that Ceased -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (2): Hebrew that Was Preserved -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (3): Alternatives to the Hebrew Hypothesis -- Beyond Hebrew: Histories of Other Languages -- The Language of God -- Tower of Babel: Blessed Catastrophe or Catastrophic Blessing? -- Concluding Remarks | |
| 505 | 8 | |a CHAPTER 4 Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity -- ''Speaking in Tongues'' in Texts and Practices of the Second and Third Centuries -- Angelic Languages as a Solution -- Eusebius of Caesarea: A Turning Point -- Speaking in Foreign Languages -- Coming to Terms with the Xenolalia Interpretation of ''Speaking in Tongues'' -- 1. New Vocabulary -- 2. Languages Never Learned -- 3. Navigating the List of Peoples -- 4. Ruling Out Akolalia -- 5. Missionary Context -- 6. Reconciling Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 -- 7. Updating Earlier Texts -- The Tower of Faith and the Tower of Pride: Patterns of Multilinguality -- Unity and Fragmentation -- The Use and Abuse of Tongues -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 5 Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness -- Proto-Orthodox Christianity: Setting the Universal Frame -- Barbarians Old and New: Between Universalism and Cultural Superiority -- Languages of Christianity: Quest for Legitimacy and Authority -- 1. The Right to Use Language and the Competition for the Classical Legacy -- 2. Three Sacred Languages -- 3. Navigating Symbolic Hierarchies of Languages -- 4. Search for Authority: Summarizing the Case of Latin -- Linguistic Awareness and Sensitivity to Language Differences -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 6 The Languages of Saints and Demons -- Languages of Ascetics: Between the Grace of Knowledge and the Grace of Ignorance -- Xenolalia in Christian Literature of Late Antiquity -- 1. Disconnection of the Exegetical and Hagiographical Traditions -- 2. Early Greek Testimonies of Language-Related Miracles -- 3. Xenolalia Accounts in Syriac Literature -- 4. Topos of Xenolalia? -- Demons Speaking in Tongues -- Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion: What's in the Language? -- Communities of Linguistic Sensitivities -- Monolingual Babel to Fall -- Imagining the Alloglottic Other | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Dialect(ic)s of Christian Universalism -- Languages of Heretics -- What's Next? -- Bibliography -- Scriptural Sources -- Primary Sources -- Achilles Tatius -- Acts of St. Marina and St. Christopher -- Acts of St. Simeon Stylite -- Acts of Thomas -- Aeschylus -- Ambrose -- Ambrosiaster -- Antoninus of Piacenza -- Aphrahat -- Apocalypse of Paul -- Apophthegmata Patrum -- Apostolic Constitutions -- Apponius -- Aristeas: Letter to Philocrates -- Aristophanes -- Aristotle -- Arnobius the Younger -- Athanasius of Alexandria -- Augustine -- Aulus Gellius -- Auxentius: Epistula de Vita Ulfilae -- Avitus of Vienne -- Babrius -- Barsanuphius and John -- Basil of Caesarea -- Book of Jubilees -- Book of Steps -- Callimachus -- Cassiodorus -- Catenae on Genesis and Exodus -- Cave of Treasures -- Chromatius of Aquileia -- Claudius Marius Victorius -- Clement of Alexandria -- Commentary on Genesis-Exodus (Diyarbakir Manuscript) -- Consultations of Zacchaeus and Apollonius -- Cornelius Nepos -- Crates -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Cyril of Jerusalem -- Cyril of Scythopolis -- Cyrus of Edessa -- Didymus the Blind / Ps.-Didymus the Blind -- Diodorus Siculus -- Diogenes Laertius -- Diogenes of Oinoanda -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Elias of Dara -- Ephrem the Syrian -- Epicurus -- Epiphanius of Salamis -- Eucherius of Lyons -- Eunomius of Cyzicus -- Euripides -- Eusebius of Caesarea -- Eustratios the Presbyter -- Faustus of Riez -- Filastrius of Brescia -- Fourth Memra on Joseph -- Fulgentius Mythographus -- Fulgentius of Ruspe -- The Funerary Oration for John Chrysostom -- Gaudentius of Brescia -- Gregory of Elvira -- Gregory of Nazianzus -- Gregory of Nyssa -- Gregory of Tours -- Gregory the Great -- Herodotus -- Hilary of Poitiers -- Hippolytus of Rome -- History of the Egyptian Monks -- Homer -- Hyginus -- Irenaeus -- Isho?dad of Merv -- Isidore of Seville | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Jacob of Sarug -- Jerome -- Jerome (Translated to Greek) -- Jewish Inscriptions -- John Cassian -- John Chrysostom -- John of Ephesus -- John the Lydian -- Jordanes -- Josephus -- Julius Africanus -- Justin Martyr -- Lactantius -- Lament of the Virgin Mary -- Leo the Great -- Leontius of Constantinople -- Letter to Diognetus -- Life of Aesop -- Life of Ahoudemmeh -- Life of Andrew the Holy Fool -- Life of Daniel the Stylite -- Life of Ephrem -- Life of Nino -- Life of Pachomius and Paralipomena -- Life of Rabbula -- Lucian of Samosata -- Lucretius -- Marius Victorinus -- Marutha of Tagrit -- Maximus of Turin -- Memra (Romance) on Alexander -- Midrash Rabbah -- Mysteries of Letters -- Nikephoros of Rus -- Optate of Milevis -- Origen -- Origen (Translated to Latin) -- Oxyrhynchus Papyri -- Pacian of Barcelona -- Palladius of Helenopolis -- Paulinus of Nola -- Paulinus of Perigueux -- Philo of Alexandria -- Philoxenus of Mabbug -- Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer -- Plato -- Plautus -- Pliny the Elder -- Plutarch -- Porphyry -- Procopius of Gaza -- Prophetiae Ex Omnibus Libris Collectae -- Prosper of Aquitaine -- Ps.-Amphilochius of Iconium: De Basilio Magno et S. Ephraem Syro -- Ps.-Clement: Recognitions -- Ps.-Cyprian -- Ps.-Eustathius -- Ps.-Macarius -- Ps.-Zacharias of Mytilene -- Pseudo-Jonathan Targum -- Quodvultdeus -- Rufinus of Aquileia -- Scriptores Historiae Augustae -- Second Book of Enoch -- Severian of Gabala -- Shubhalmaran -- Sibylline Oracles -- Sidonius Apollinaris -- Simeon Beth Arsham -- Sophocles -- Stephanus of Byzantium -- Stephen Bar-Sudhaile -- Symeon Metaphrastes -- Talmud -- Tatian -- Teaching of Addai -- Tertullian -- Testament of Naphtali -- Theodore Bar Koni -- Theodoret of Cyrrhus -- Theophilus of Antioch -- Thucydides -- Valerius Maximus -- Varro -- Venantius Fortunatus -- Victor of Vita -- Xenophon -- Zosimos of Panopolis | |
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| contents | Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Awakening to Linguistic Otherness -- CHAPTER 1 Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity -- The Bilingual Roman Empire -- The Near East Broadly Understood -- Egypt -- North Africa -- Europe and the Balkans -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 2 Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity -- Languages in Ancient Greek Epics, Tragedies, and Comedies -- Herodotus and Beyond: Historical Narratives on Foreign Languages -- Foreign Languages in Philosophical Inquiries -- Hellenism: Assimilation of the Other -- The Roman Era: From a Monolingual to a Bilingual Antiquity -- Foreign Languages in Hellenistic Literature and Beyond -- Languages in Ancient Judaism: The Second Temple Period -- Hellenistic Judaism: Philo of Alexandria -- Languages in Ancient Judaism: The Rabbinic Period -- Languages of Revelation and Multilingualism in Rabbinic Literature -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 3 The Tower of Babel and Beyond: The Primordial Linguistic Situation, the Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification -- The Confusing Confusion: Making Sense of Babel -- Hebrew and Primordial Unilingualism -- Christianizing ''Hebrew'' -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (1): Hebrew that Ceased -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (2): Hebrew that Was Preserved -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (3): Alternatives to the Hebrew Hypothesis -- Beyond Hebrew: Histories of Other Languages -- The Language of God -- Tower of Babel: Blessed Catastrophe or Catastrophic Blessing? -- Concluding Remarks CHAPTER 4 Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity -- ''Speaking in Tongues'' in Texts and Practices of the Second and Third Centuries -- Angelic Languages as a Solution -- Eusebius of Caesarea: A Turning Point -- Speaking in Foreign Languages -- Coming to Terms with the Xenolalia Interpretation of ''Speaking in Tongues'' -- 1. New Vocabulary -- 2. Languages Never Learned -- 3. Navigating the List of Peoples -- 4. Ruling Out Akolalia -- 5. Missionary Context -- 6. Reconciling Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 -- 7. Updating Earlier Texts -- The Tower of Faith and the Tower of Pride: Patterns of Multilinguality -- Unity and Fragmentation -- The Use and Abuse of Tongues -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 5 Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness -- Proto-Orthodox Christianity: Setting the Universal Frame -- Barbarians Old and New: Between Universalism and Cultural Superiority -- Languages of Christianity: Quest for Legitimacy and Authority -- 1. The Right to Use Language and the Competition for the Classical Legacy -- 2. Three Sacred Languages -- 3. Navigating Symbolic Hierarchies of Languages -- 4. Search for Authority: Summarizing the Case of Latin -- Linguistic Awareness and Sensitivity to Language Differences -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 6 The Languages of Saints and Demons -- Languages of Ascetics: Between the Grace of Knowledge and the Grace of Ignorance -- Xenolalia in Christian Literature of Late Antiquity -- 1. Disconnection of the Exegetical and Hagiographical Traditions -- 2. Early Greek Testimonies of Language-Related Miracles -- 3. Xenolalia Accounts in Syriac Literature -- 4. Topos of Xenolalia? -- Demons Speaking in Tongues -- Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion: What's in the Language? -- Communities of Linguistic Sensitivities -- Monolingual Babel to Fall -- Imagining the Alloglottic Other Dialect(ic)s of Christian Universalism -- Languages of Heretics -- What's Next? -- Bibliography -- Scriptural Sources -- Primary Sources -- Achilles Tatius -- Acts of St. Marina and St. Christopher -- Acts of St. Simeon Stylite -- Acts of Thomas -- Aeschylus -- Ambrose -- Ambrosiaster -- Antoninus of Piacenza -- Aphrahat -- Apocalypse of Paul -- Apophthegmata Patrum -- Apostolic Constitutions -- Apponius -- Aristeas: Letter to Philocrates -- Aristophanes -- Aristotle -- Arnobius the Younger -- Athanasius of Alexandria -- Augustine -- Aulus Gellius -- Auxentius: Epistula de Vita Ulfilae -- Avitus of Vienne -- Babrius -- Barsanuphius and John -- Basil of Caesarea -- Book of Jubilees -- Book of Steps -- Callimachus -- Cassiodorus -- Catenae on Genesis and Exodus -- Cave of Treasures -- Chromatius of Aquileia -- Claudius Marius Victorius -- Clement of Alexandria -- Commentary on Genesis-Exodus (Diyarbakir Manuscript) -- Consultations of Zacchaeus and Apollonius -- Cornelius Nepos -- Crates -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Cyril of Jerusalem -- Cyril of Scythopolis -- Cyrus of Edessa -- Didymus the Blind / Ps.-Didymus the Blind -- Diodorus Siculus -- Diogenes Laertius -- Diogenes of Oinoanda -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Elias of Dara -- Ephrem the Syrian -- Epicurus -- Epiphanius of Salamis -- Eucherius of Lyons -- Eunomius of Cyzicus -- Euripides -- Eusebius of Caesarea -- Eustratios the Presbyter -- Faustus of Riez -- Filastrius of Brescia -- Fourth Memra on Joseph -- Fulgentius Mythographus -- Fulgentius of Ruspe -- The Funerary Oration for John Chrysostom -- Gaudentius of Brescia -- Gregory of Elvira -- Gregory of Nazianzus -- Gregory of Nyssa -- Gregory of Tours -- Gregory the Great -- Herodotus -- Hilary of Poitiers -- Hippolytus of Rome -- History of the Egyptian Monks -- Homer -- Hyginus -- Irenaeus -- Isho?dad of Merv -- Isidore of Seville Jacob of Sarug -- Jerome -- Jerome (Translated to Greek) -- Jewish Inscriptions -- John Cassian -- John Chrysostom -- John of Ephesus -- John the Lydian -- Jordanes -- Josephus -- Julius Africanus -- Justin Martyr -- Lactantius -- Lament of the Virgin Mary -- Leo the Great -- Leontius of Constantinople -- Letter to Diognetus -- Life of Aesop -- Life of Ahoudemmeh -- Life of Andrew the Holy Fool -- Life of Daniel the Stylite -- Life of Ephrem -- Life of Nino -- Life of Pachomius and Paralipomena -- Life of Rabbula -- Lucian of Samosata -- Lucretius -- Marius Victorinus -- Marutha of Tagrit -- Maximus of Turin -- Memra (Romance) on Alexander -- Midrash Rabbah -- Mysteries of Letters -- Nikephoros of Rus -- Optate of Milevis -- Origen -- Origen (Translated to Latin) -- Oxyrhynchus Papyri -- Pacian of Barcelona -- Palladius of Helenopolis -- Paulinus of Nola -- Paulinus of Perigueux -- Philo of Alexandria -- Philoxenus of Mabbug -- Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer -- Plato -- Plautus -- Pliny the Elder -- Plutarch -- Porphyry -- Procopius of Gaza -- Prophetiae Ex Omnibus Libris Collectae -- Prosper of Aquitaine -- Ps.-Amphilochius of Iconium: De Basilio Magno et S. Ephraem Syro -- Ps.-Clement: Recognitions -- Ps.-Cyprian -- Ps.-Eustathius -- Ps.-Macarius -- Ps.-Zacharias of Mytilene -- Pseudo-Jonathan Targum -- Quodvultdeus -- Rufinus of Aquileia -- Scriptores Historiae Augustae -- Second Book of Enoch -- Severian of Gabala -- Shubhalmaran -- Sibylline Oracles -- Sidonius Apollinaris -- Simeon Beth Arsham -- Sophocles -- Stephanus of Byzantium -- Stephen Bar-Sudhaile -- Symeon Metaphrastes -- Talmud -- Tatian -- Teaching of Addai -- Tertullian -- Testament of Naphtali -- Theodore Bar Koni -- Theodoret of Cyrrhus -- Theophilus of Antioch -- Thucydides -- Valerius Maximus -- Varro -- Venantius Fortunatus -- Victor of Vita -- Xenophon -- Zosimos of Panopolis Secondary Sources -- Index |
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| spelling | Minets, Yuliya Verfasser aut The Slow Fall of Babel Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021 ©2021 1 Online-Ressource (436 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Awakening to Linguistic Otherness -- CHAPTER 1 Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity -- The Bilingual Roman Empire -- The Near East Broadly Understood -- Egypt -- North Africa -- Europe and the Balkans -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 2 Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity -- Languages in Ancient Greek Epics, Tragedies, and Comedies -- Herodotus and Beyond: Historical Narratives on Foreign Languages -- Foreign Languages in Philosophical Inquiries -- Hellenism: Assimilation of the Other -- The Roman Era: From a Monolingual to a Bilingual Antiquity -- Foreign Languages in Hellenistic Literature and Beyond -- Languages in Ancient Judaism: The Second Temple Period -- Hellenistic Judaism: Philo of Alexandria -- Languages in Ancient Judaism: The Rabbinic Period -- Languages of Revelation and Multilingualism in Rabbinic Literature -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 3 The Tower of Babel and Beyond: The Primordial Linguistic Situation, the Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification -- The Confusing Confusion: Making Sense of Babel -- Hebrew and Primordial Unilingualism -- Christianizing ''Hebrew'' -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (1): Hebrew that Ceased -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (2): Hebrew that Was Preserved -- History of the Hebrew Language in Christian Discourse (3): Alternatives to the Hebrew Hypothesis -- Beyond Hebrew: Histories of Other Languages -- The Language of God -- Tower of Babel: Blessed Catastrophe or Catastrophic Blessing? -- Concluding Remarks CHAPTER 4 Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity -- ''Speaking in Tongues'' in Texts and Practices of the Second and Third Centuries -- Angelic Languages as a Solution -- Eusebius of Caesarea: A Turning Point -- Speaking in Foreign Languages -- Coming to Terms with the Xenolalia Interpretation of ''Speaking in Tongues'' -- 1. New Vocabulary -- 2. Languages Never Learned -- 3. Navigating the List of Peoples -- 4. Ruling Out Akolalia -- 5. Missionary Context -- 6. Reconciling Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 -- 7. Updating Earlier Texts -- The Tower of Faith and the Tower of Pride: Patterns of Multilinguality -- Unity and Fragmentation -- The Use and Abuse of Tongues -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 5 Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness -- Proto-Orthodox Christianity: Setting the Universal Frame -- Barbarians Old and New: Between Universalism and Cultural Superiority -- Languages of Christianity: Quest for Legitimacy and Authority -- 1. The Right to Use Language and the Competition for the Classical Legacy -- 2. Three Sacred Languages -- 3. Navigating Symbolic Hierarchies of Languages -- 4. Search for Authority: Summarizing the Case of Latin -- Linguistic Awareness and Sensitivity to Language Differences -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 6 The Languages of Saints and Demons -- Languages of Ascetics: Between the Grace of Knowledge and the Grace of Ignorance -- Xenolalia in Christian Literature of Late Antiquity -- 1. Disconnection of the Exegetical and Hagiographical Traditions -- 2. Early Greek Testimonies of Language-Related Miracles -- 3. Xenolalia Accounts in Syriac Literature -- 4. Topos of Xenolalia? -- Demons Speaking in Tongues -- Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion: What's in the Language? -- Communities of Linguistic Sensitivities -- Monolingual Babel to Fall -- Imagining the Alloglottic Other Dialect(ic)s of Christian Universalism -- Languages of Heretics -- What's Next? -- Bibliography -- Scriptural Sources -- Primary Sources -- Achilles Tatius -- Acts of St. Marina and St. Christopher -- Acts of St. Simeon Stylite -- Acts of Thomas -- Aeschylus -- Ambrose -- Ambrosiaster -- Antoninus of Piacenza -- Aphrahat -- Apocalypse of Paul -- Apophthegmata Patrum -- Apostolic Constitutions -- Apponius -- Aristeas: Letter to Philocrates -- Aristophanes -- Aristotle -- Arnobius the Younger -- Athanasius of Alexandria -- Augustine -- Aulus Gellius -- Auxentius: Epistula de Vita Ulfilae -- Avitus of Vienne -- Babrius -- Barsanuphius and John -- Basil of Caesarea -- Book of Jubilees -- Book of Steps -- Callimachus -- Cassiodorus -- Catenae on Genesis and Exodus -- Cave of Treasures -- Chromatius of Aquileia -- Claudius Marius Victorius -- Clement of Alexandria -- Commentary on Genesis-Exodus (Diyarbakir Manuscript) -- Consultations of Zacchaeus and Apollonius -- Cornelius Nepos -- Crates -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Cyril of Jerusalem -- Cyril of Scythopolis -- Cyrus of Edessa -- Didymus the Blind / Ps.-Didymus the Blind -- Diodorus Siculus -- Diogenes Laertius -- Diogenes of Oinoanda -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Elias of Dara -- Ephrem the Syrian -- Epicurus -- Epiphanius of Salamis -- Eucherius of Lyons -- Eunomius of Cyzicus -- Euripides -- Eusebius of Caesarea -- Eustratios the Presbyter -- Faustus of Riez -- Filastrius of Brescia -- Fourth Memra on Joseph -- Fulgentius Mythographus -- Fulgentius of Ruspe -- The Funerary Oration for John Chrysostom -- Gaudentius of Brescia -- Gregory of Elvira -- Gregory of Nazianzus -- Gregory of Nyssa -- Gregory of Tours -- Gregory the Great -- Herodotus -- Hilary of Poitiers -- Hippolytus of Rome -- History of the Egyptian Monks -- Homer -- Hyginus -- Irenaeus -- Isho?dad of Merv -- Isidore of Seville Jacob of Sarug -- Jerome -- Jerome (Translated to Greek) -- Jewish Inscriptions -- John Cassian -- John Chrysostom -- John of Ephesus -- John the Lydian -- Jordanes -- Josephus -- Julius Africanus -- Justin Martyr -- Lactantius -- Lament of the Virgin Mary -- Leo the Great -- Leontius of Constantinople -- Letter to Diognetus -- Life of Aesop -- Life of Ahoudemmeh -- Life of Andrew the Holy Fool -- Life of Daniel the Stylite -- Life of Ephrem -- Life of Nino -- Life of Pachomius and Paralipomena -- Life of Rabbula -- Lucian of Samosata -- Lucretius -- Marius Victorinus -- Marutha of Tagrit -- Maximus of Turin -- Memra (Romance) on Alexander -- Midrash Rabbah -- Mysteries of Letters -- Nikephoros of Rus -- Optate of Milevis -- Origen -- Origen (Translated to Latin) -- Oxyrhynchus Papyri -- Pacian of Barcelona -- Palladius of Helenopolis -- Paulinus of Nola -- Paulinus of Perigueux -- Philo of Alexandria -- Philoxenus of Mabbug -- Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer -- Plato -- Plautus -- Pliny the Elder -- Plutarch -- Porphyry -- Procopius of Gaza -- Prophetiae Ex Omnibus Libris Collectae -- Prosper of Aquitaine -- Ps.-Amphilochius of Iconium: De Basilio Magno et S. 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New Vocabulary -- 2. Languages Never Learned -- 3. Navigating the List of Peoples -- 4. Ruling Out Akolalia -- 5. Missionary Context -- 6. Reconciling Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 -- 7. Updating Earlier Texts -- The Tower of Faith and the Tower of Pride: Patterns of Multilinguality -- Unity and Fragmentation -- The Use and Abuse of Tongues -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 5 Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness -- Proto-Orthodox Christianity: Setting the Universal Frame -- Barbarians Old and New: Between Universalism and Cultural Superiority -- Languages of Christianity: Quest for Legitimacy and Authority -- 1. The Right to Use Language and the Competition for the Classical Legacy -- 2. Three Sacred Languages -- 3. Navigating Symbolic Hierarchies of Languages -- 4. Search for Authority: Summarizing the Case of Latin -- Linguistic Awareness and Sensitivity to Language Differences -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER 6 The Languages of Saints and Demons -- Languages of Ascetics: Between the Grace of Knowledge and the Grace of Ignorance -- Xenolalia in Christian Literature of Late Antiquity -- 1. Disconnection of the Exegetical and Hagiographical Traditions -- 2. Early Greek Testimonies of Language-Related Miracles -- 3. Xenolalia Accounts in Syriac Literature -- 4. 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| title_sort | the slow fall of babel languages and identities in late antique christianity |
| title_sub | Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity |
| topic | Group identity-Mediterranean Region-History-To 1500 Christian civilization-Mediterranean Region-History-To 1500 Other (Philosophy)-Religious aspects-Christianity Language and languages-Religious aspects-Christianity Classical literature-History and criticism Christian literature, Early-History and criticism Sprache (DE-588)4056449-6 gnd Identität (DE-588)4026482-8 gnd Frühchristentum (DE-588)4129954-1 gnd Spätantike (DE-588)4124227-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | Group identity-Mediterranean Region-History-To 1500 Christian civilization-Mediterranean Region-History-To 1500 Other (Philosophy)-Religious aspects-Christianity Language and languages-Religious aspects-Christianity Classical literature-History and criticism Christian literature, Early-History and criticism Sprache Identität Frühchristentum Spätantike Mittelmeerraum |
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