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Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Civilisation assyro-babylonienne --- Deller, Karlheinz --- Bibliography --- Bibliographie --- Middle East --- History --- Languages --- Languages. --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- Orient --- -Languages. --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Arab countries --- Middle East - History - To 622 --- Middle East - Languages

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The eight hundred years between the first Roman conquests and the conquest of Islam saw a rich, constantly shifting blend of languages and writing systems, legal structures, religious practices and beliefs in the Near East. While the different ethnic groups and cultural forms often clashed with each other, adaptation was as much a characteristic of the region as conflict. This volume, emphasizing the inscriptions in many languages from the Near East, brings together mutually informative studies by scholars in diverse fields. Together, they reveal how the different languages, peoples and cultures interacted, competed with, tried to ignore or were influenced by each other, and how their relationships evolved over time. It will be of great value to those interested in Greek and Roman history, Jewish history and Near Eastern studies.

Inscriptions --- Writing --- History --- Middle East --- Civilization --- Languages --- Religion --- Languages. --- Religion. --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Language and languages --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Epigraphs (Inscriptions) --- Epigraphy --- Inscription --- Paleography --- Epigraphists --- History. --- Ecriture --- Histoire --- Moyen-Orient --- Civilisation --- Langues --- Arts and Humanities --- Inscriptions - Middle East --- Writing - Middle East - History --- Middle East - Civilization - To 622 --- Middle East - Languages --- Middle East - Religion

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This collection of essays deals with the phenomenon of allography, taken in the sense of the practice of writing a language in the script of another language. Although by no means all texts highlighted in the essays are of a religious character, they are written in the scripts that are connected to the three monotheistic traditions stemming from the Eastern Mediterranean: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The time span covered ranges from Late Antiquity to (early) modern times. The volume contains studies on such cases as Aljamiado (Romance languages of Spain written in Arabic or Hebrew script but also Bosnian in Arabic script), Judaeo-Arabic, karshuni (Arabic but occasionally also other languages written in Syriac script), and various combinations of languages written in the Greek, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian scripts. In each case, the approach is both philological, concentrating on the various systems of adaptation of the scripts to the phonetics of the languages in question, and historical, with a focus on aspects of intercultural contact and exchange, as well as on the emergence and development of the various allographic traditions over time. Particularly important questions, discussed in several contributions, are whether specific communities used scripts of a language other than their own for practical or rather for ideological, identity-related considerations, and how these writing practices relate to the sociocultural contexts in which they functioned and developed.

Sacred books --- Translating and interpreting --- Livres sacrés --- Traduction et interprétation --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Transliteration --- Judeo-Arabic language --- Transliteration into Syriac --- Transliteration. --- Schriftsystem --- Transliteration into Syriac. --- Mittelmeerraum --- Schriftsystem. --- Academic collection --- Arabic language --- Writing --- Language and languages --- History --- Middle East --- Mediterranean Region --- Languages --- Language and languages. --- Writing. --- History. --- Mittelmeerraum. --- Transcription --- Books before 1840 --- Arabic language - Transliteration into Syriac --- Judeo-Arabic language - Writing --- Writing - History --- Middle East - Languages - Transliteration --- Mediterranean Region - Languages - Transliteration

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Egyptian language --- Foreign elements --- Etymology --- Names --- Writing, Hieroglyphic --- Middle East --- Languages --- Transliteration into Egyptian --- Names, Personal --- Foreign elements. --- Names. --- Writing, Hieroglyphic. --- Transliteration into Egyptian. --- -Egyptian language --- -Middle East --- -Names, Personal --- -Anthroponomy --- Baby names --- Christian names --- Family names --- Forenames --- Names of families --- Names of persons --- Personal names --- Surnames --- Onomastics --- Afroasiatic languages --- -Names --- -Transliteration into Egyptian --- -Etymology --- Anthroponomy --- Egyptian hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Egyptian --- Etymology&delete& --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Egyptian language - Foreign elements --- Egyptian language - Etymology - Names --- Egyptian language - Writing, Hieroglyphic --- Middle East - Languages - Transliteration into Egyptian