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By Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

ISBN-10: 0754669661

ISBN-13: 9780754669661

This quantity brings jointly a suite of basic contributions, many translated into English for this book, besides a major advent. jointly those discover the position of Greek between Christian groups within the overdue vintage and Byzantine East (late Roman Oriens), in particular within the components outdoors of the fast sway of Constantinople and imperial Asia Minor. The neighborhood identities established round indigenous jap Christian languages (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, etc.) and post-Chalcedonian doctrinal confessions (Miaphysite, Church of the East, Melkite, Maronite) have been solidifying accurately because the Byzantine polity within the East used to be extinguished by means of the Arab conquests of the 7th century. during this multilayered cultural atmosphere, Greek used to be a typical social touchstone for all of those Christian groups, not just due to the shared Greek history of the early Church, but in addition as a result persevered price of Greek theological, hagiographical, and liturgical writings. although, those interactions have been dynamic and residing, in order that the Greek of the medieval close to East used to be itself remodeled via such engagement with jap Christian literature, appropriating new principles and new texts into the Byzantine repertoire within the process.

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