JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity by Yuliya Minets (review).

  • Published In: Journal of Late Antiquity, 2023, v. 16, n. 2. P. 550 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Bay, Carson 3 of 3

Abstract

Minets surveys by genre and chronology a self-consciously monolingual Greek antiquity that gave way through the Hellenistic period to a bilingual Greek and Roman/Latin world - multilingualism could now be imagined as praiseworthy. "Chapter 3: The Tower of Babel and Beyond" addresses how the textually-confused Tower of Babel narrative (Genesis 11) affected how Christians rendered that biblical episode in Greek, Latin, and Syriac and how they thought about primordial language and subsequent multilingualism. Minets discusses how Christian enthusiasm for the Hebrew language eventually fueled Christian appropriation of Hebrew identity (especially in Eusebius). [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Journal of Late Antiquity. 2023/09, Vol. 16, Issue 2, p550
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:19396716
  • DOI:10.1353/jla.2023.a906778
  • Accession Number:172809083
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