Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-12546-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Religion in the First Christian Centuries

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sawyer, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Language Situation; Chapter 3 Sacred Languages; Chapter 4 Literacy; Chapter 5 Canonization; Chapter 6 Translation; Chapter 7 Beliefs and Controls; Chapter 8 Names and Numbers; Chapter 9 Styles and Strategies; Chapter 10 Interpretation; Chapter 11 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

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).