Book contents
- The Slow Fall of Babel
- The Slow Fall of Babel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Awakening to Linguistic Otherness
- Chapter 1 Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity
- Chapter 2 Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity
- Chapter 3 The Tower of Babel and Beyond: The Primordial Linguistic Situation, the Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification
- Chapter 4 Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity
- Chapter 5 Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness
- Chapter 6 The Languages of Saints and Demons
- Conclusion: What’s in the Language?
- Bibliography
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2021
- The Slow Fall of Babel
- The Slow Fall of Babel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Awakening to Linguistic Otherness
- Chapter 1 Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity
- Chapter 2 Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity
- Chapter 3 The Tower of Babel and Beyond: The Primordial Linguistic Situation, the Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification
- Chapter 4 Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity
- Chapter 5 Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness
- Chapter 6 The Languages of Saints and Demons
- Conclusion: What’s in the Language?
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Slow Fall of BabelLanguages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity, pp. viii - ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021