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This volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the perspective of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, as a rich source for understanding the scribes' complex socio-cultural environments. A series of case studies applies this framework to scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Islamic Egypt.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Frontmatter
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1: E. Grossman and J. Cromwell: Scribes, repertoires, and variation
- 2: M. Stenroos: From scribal repertoire to text community: the challenge of variable writing systems
- 3: A. Bergs: Set them free?! Investigating spelling and scribal variation in language and history
- 4: S. Polis: Linguistic variation in Ancient Egyptian: an introduction to the state of the art (with special attention to the community of Deir el-Medina)
- 5: S. Polis: The scribal repertoire of Amennakhte son of Ipuy: describing variation across Late Egyptian registers
- 6: J. Winand: Words of thieves
- 7: K. Ryholt: Scribal habits at the Tebtunis temple library: on materiality, formal features, and palaeography
- 8: J. F. Quack: On the regionalisation of Roman-period Egyptian hands
- 9: R. Mairs: ¿¿¿`*a ¿`*o *d*u*v¿¿¿*o*v: Demotic-Greek translation in the archive of the Theban choachytes
- 10: H. Halla-aho: Scribes in private letter writing: linguistic perspectives
- 11: W. Clarysse: Letters from high to low in the Greco-Roman period
- 12: J. Cromwell: Greek or Coptic? Scribal decisions in 8th century Egypt (Thebes)
- 13: A. Boud'hors: Copyist and scribe: two professions for a single man? Palaeographical and linguistic observations on some practices of the Theban region according to Coptic texts from the 7th-8th centuries
- 14: T. S. Richter: A scribe, his bag of tricks, what it was for, and where he got it. Scribal registers and techniques in Bodl.Mss.Copt.(P) a.2 and 3
- 15: E.-M. Wagner and B. Outhwaite: 'These Two Lines. . .': Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic letter-writing in the Classical Genizah period
- Endmatter
- Bibliography
- Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jennifer Cromwell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. She previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Oxford and at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her work focuses on social and economic history in late antique Egypt (fifth to eighth centuries CE), utilizing the original textual material, primarily in Coptic, from villages and monasteries along the Nile Valley. Her current projects include the publication of the non-literary Coptic papyri in the University of Copenhagen, a study of life at the monastery of Apa Thomas at Wadi Sarga, and the publication of a corpus of Coptic school texts in Columbia University with Professor Raffaella Cribiore of NYU.
Eitan Grossman is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His work focuses on the study of variation and change in language, both within individual languages and across languages. Beyond Ancient Egyptian-Coptic, he also works on Nuer, a Nilotic language of South Sudan, and several other languages. Among his recent publications is Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective (de Gruyter Mouton), co-edited with Martin Haspelmath and Tonio Sebastian Richter.
Zusammenfassung
This volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the perspective of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, as a rich source for understanding the scribes' complex socio-cultural environments. A series of case studies applies this framework to scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Islamic Egypt.
Zusatztext
The coherence and quality of the papers, together with their wealth of relevant observations, should make Scribal Repertoires a beacon for the socio-linguistic research of ancient and medieval Egyptian manuscripts for many years to come.
