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"This volume brings together a set of fundamental contributions, many translated into English for this publication, along with an important introduction. Together these explore the role of Greek among Christian communities in the late antique and Byzantine East (late Roman Oriens), specifically in the areas outside of the immediate sway of Constantinople and imperial Asia Minor. The local identities based around indigenous eastern Christian languages (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, etc.) and post-Chalcedonian doctrinal confessions (Miaphysite, Church of the East, Melkite, Maronite) were solidifying precisely as the Byzantine polity in the East was extinguished by the Arab conquests of the seventh century. In this multilayered cultural environment, Greek was a common social touchstone for all of these Christian communities, not only because of the shared Greek heritage of the early Church, but also because of the continued value of Greek theological, hagiographical, and liturgical writings. However, these interactions were dynamic and living, so that the Greek of the medieval Near East was itself transformed by such engagement with eastern Christian literature, appropriating new ideas and new texts into the Byzantine repertoire in the process."--
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Byzantine empire, religion, Greece, civilization, Early Christian literature, Greek authors, History, Church history, Civilization, Byzantine Empire, Religion, Christianity, Orthodox, Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados, Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.), Medieval and late Greek language, Multilingualism, Greek literature, History and criticism, Christianity and culture, Orthodox Eastern ChurchEdition | Availability |
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Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity - Greek
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
0754669661 9780754669661
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