The Prestige Language of Christianity in the Book of Acts : Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to Multilingualism /

The Prestige Language of Christianity in the Book of Acts : Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to Multilingualism /

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Main Author: Park, Sung Min (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Linguistic Biblical Studies ; 29.

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Biblical Studies.
Languages and Linguistics

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Prestige Language of First-Century Christianity
  • 1 Defining the Issue and Problem
  • 2 Outline and Contribution of the Study
  • 1 The Multilingualism of First-Century Christianity
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Multilingual Environment of the New Testament World
  • 3 The Prestige Language of First-Century Christianity
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 2 Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to the Prestige Language of First-Century Christianity
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to the Multilingualism of First-Century Christianity
  • 3 The New Proposal of the Historical Sociolinguistic Approach to the Inquiry of the Codes of Peter and Paul
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 3 Macro Sociolinguistics: Linguistic Ideologies of the Roman Empire
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Macro Context of the Roman State
  • 3 The Linguistic Ideologies of the Institutional Communities
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 4 Meso Sociolinguistics: Linguistic Ideologies of the Communities of Practice in the Greco-Roman World
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Meso Contexts of the Greco-Roman World
  • 3 The Sociolinguistic Landscape of the Regional Communities
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 5 Micro Sociolinguistics: Peter and Paul's Code Choices and the Prestige Religious Language of First-Century Christianity in the Book of Acts
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Plurilingualism of Peter, Paul and Other Church Leaders
  • 3 The Prestige Language of First-Century Christianity
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Appendix1: The Geographical and Functional Distributions of Languages
  • Appendix2: Historical Figures' Social Networks and Plurilingualism
  • Appendix3: The Density of Peter's Social Networks with Other Historical Figures
  • Appendix4: The Density of Paul's Social Networks with Other Historical Figures
  • Appendix5: The Code Choices of the Historical Figures in the Book of Acts
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Ancient Sources.