Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea - A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents

Informationen zum Autor Michael Owen Wise is Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Languages at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul. He lives in St. Paul! MN. Klappentext This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew! Aramaic! Greek! and Nabataean contracts and letters preserved among the Bar Kokhba texts! a valuable cache of ancient Middle Eastern artifacts. His investigation of Judean documentary and epistolary culture derives for the first time numerical data concerning literacy rates! language choices! and writing fluency during the two-century span between Pompey's conquest and Hadrian's rule. He explores questions of who could read in these ancient times of Jesus and Hillel! what they read! and how language worked in this complex multi-tongued milieu. Included also is an analysis of the ways these documents were written and the interplay among authors! secretaries! and scribes. Additional analysis provides readers with a detailed picture of the people! families! and lives behind the texts.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Owen Wise
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2015
• EAN: 9780300204537
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20453-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Series: The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library; The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library; Anchor Bible Reference Library (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Palestine, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE