Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity

Greek
Herausgeber: Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a set of fundamental contributions, many translated into English for this publication, along with an important introduction. Together these explore the role of Greek among Christian communities in the late antique and Byzantine East (late Roman Oriens), specifically in the areas outside of the immediate sway of Constantinople and imperial Asia Minor. The local identities based around indigenous eastern Christian languages (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, etc.) and post-Chalcedonian doctrinal confessions (Miaphysite, Church of the East, Melkite, Maronite) were solidifying precisely as the Byzantine polity in the East was extinguished by the Arab conquests of the seventh century. In this multilayered cultural environment, Greek was a common social touchstone for all of these Christian communities, not only because of the shared Greek heritage of the early Church, but also because of the continued value of Greek theological, hagiographical, and liturgical writings. However, these interactions were dynamic and living, so that the Greek of the medieval Near East was itself transformed by such engagement with eastern Christian literature, appropriating new ideas and new texts into the Byzantine repertoire in the process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1200g
• ISBN-13: 9780754669661
• ISBN-10: 0754669661
• Artikelnr.: 54580837

Autorenporträt

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Dumbarton Oaks Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Greek at Georgetown University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction: the social presence of Greek in Eastern
Christianity, 200-1200 CE; Sextus Julius Africanus and the Roman Near East
in the third century, William Adler; Ethnic identity in the Roman Near
East, AD 325-450: language, religion, and culture, Fergus Millar;
Bilingualism and diglossia in late antique Syria and Mesopotamia, David
Taylor; The private life of a man of letters: well-read practices in
Byzantine Egypt according to the Dossier of Dioscorus of Aphrodito,
Jean-Luc Fournet; Dioscorus and the question of bilingualism in
sixth-century Egypt, Arietta Papaconstantinou; Palestinian hagiography and
the reception of the Council of Chalcedon, Bernard Flusin; The Christian
schools of Palestine: a chapter in literary history, Glanville Downey;
Embellishing the steps: elements of presentation and style in The Heavenly
Ladder of John Climacus, John Duffy; The works of Anastasius of Sinai: a
key source for the history of seventh-century East Mediterranean society
and belief, John Haldon; Greek literature in Palestine in the eighth
century, Robert Pierpont Blake; Greek culture in Palestine after the Arab
conquest, Cyril Mango; Some reflections on the continuity of Greek culture
in the East in the seventh and eighth centuries, Guglielmo Cavallo; From
Palestine to Constantinople (eighth-ninth centuries): Stephen the Sabaite
and John of Damascus, Marie-France Auzépy; The Life of Theodore of Edessa:
history, hagiography, and religious apologetics in Mar Saba monastery in
early Abbasid times, Sidney Griffith; Why did Arabic succeed where Greek
failed? Language change in the Near East after Muhammad, David
Wasserstein; From Arabic to Greek, then to Georgian: a life of Saint John
of Damascus, Bernard Flusin; Greek - Syriac - Arabic: the relationship
between liturgical and colloquial languages in Melkite Palestine in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Johannes Pahlitzsch; The liturgy of the
Melkite Patriarchs from 969 to 1300, Joseph Nasrallah; Byzantium's place in
the debate over Orientalism, Averil Cameron; Index.