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The Slow Fall of Babel - Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Slow Fall of Babel - Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This is the story of the transformation of the ways in which the
increasingly Christianized elites of the late antique Mediterranean
experienced and conceptualized linguistic differences. The metaphor
of Babel stands for the magnificent edifice of classical culture
that was about to reach the sky, but remained self-sufficient and
self-contained in its virtual monolingualism - the paradigm within
which even Latin was occasionally considered just a dialect of
Greek. The gradual erosion of this vision is the slow fall of Babel
that took place in the hearts and minds of a good number of early
Christian writers and intellectuals who represented various
languages and literary traditions. This step-by-step process
included the discovery and internalization of the existence of
multiple other languages in the world, as well as subsequent
attempts to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the
holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe.
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