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Glas, Jacob Evert (2016)

Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Dead Sea Region (AD 70‒135)

Research master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (research) (MA)

The present thesis centres on languages and linguistic features encountered in the documentary texts from the Dead Sea region, focussing on the documentary texts from Wadi Murabba’at and Nahal Hever. Especially those features that might tell something about the identity of the people responsible for the production of these documents will be examined in detail. The overall aim is to detect these features and to explain them in light of their cultural background: to what extent do the formal and linguistic features visible in the documentary texts convey elements of conscious choices and unconscious linguistic patterns relating to the identity of the people who wrote these texts and how can these features be explained? It will be attempted to answer this general question through two key-objectives: 1. Through determining linguistic features and patterns of language choice in selected case studies. 2. Through explaining these features in light of their cultural-historical background.

Language

Sociolinguistics

Judea

Hebrew

Aramaic

Greek

Author

Glas, Jacob Evert

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Hebrew and Aramaic Studies

Supervisors

Gzella, Holger
Baasten, Martin

ECTS Credits

25

Language

en