From Hellenism to Islam : cultural and linguistic change in the Roman Near East /
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Language: English
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Cambridge, UK ; [New York :
Cambridge University Press],
2009.
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Call Number: DS57 .F758 2009
Table of Contents:
- •List of figures •List of tables •List of contributors •Preface •List of abbreviations •Introduction: documentary evidence, social realitiesand the history of language Fergus Millar •I. The Language Of Power: Latin In The Roman Near East •1. The presence, role and significance of Latin in theepigraphy and culture of the Roman Near East •2. Latin in cities of the Roman Near East •II. Social And Legal Institutions As Reflected In The Documentary Evidence •3. Euergetism in Josephus and the epigraphic culture of first-century Jerusalem •4. Legal and social status of threptoi and related categoriesin narrative and documentary sources •5. Ritual performances of divine justice: the epigraphy of confession, atonement, and exaltation in RomanAsia Minor •6. Continuity of Nabataean law in the Petra papyri: A methodological exercise •III. The Epigraphic Language Of Religion •7. 'Languages' and religion in second- to fourth-century Palestine: In search of the impact of Rome •8. The epigraphic habit and the Jewish Diasporas ofAsia Minor and Syria •9. Religion and language in Dura-Europos •IV. Linguistic Metamorphoses And Continuity Of Cultures •10. On the margins of culture: the practice of transcriptionin the ancient world •11. Edessene Syriac inscriptions in late antique Syria •12. Samaritan writing and writings •13. The Jewish magical tradition from late antiquePalestine to the Cairo Genizah •v. Greek Into Arabic •14. The Nabataean connection of the Benei Hezir •15. Greek inscriptions in transition from the Byzantine tothe early Islamic period •16. Arab kings, Arab tribes and the beginnings of Arab historical memory in late Roman epigraphy •17. Greek, Coptic and the 'language of the Hijra': the rise and decline of the Coptic language in late antique and medieval Egypt •18. 'What remains behind': Hellenism and Romanitas in Christian Egypt after the Arab conquest •Index