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Sacred Languages And Sacred Texts

[Paperback]

by John Sawyer

Author
John Sawyer
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published
May 1999

John F A Sawyer

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This study of the role of languages and texts in the religions of the Greco-Roman world, including Judaism and Christianity, 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. By considering the status of Hebrew in Judaism alongside that of Greek in Rome, for example, or the Christian canon in the same context as the canonizing of Classical literature under the Antonines, the book seeks to shed new light on the role of the power of words, spoken and written, in religion.