Scribal repertories in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the early Islamic period /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in ancient documents.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | This volume deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the people who actually produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents. Breaking with the traditional conception of variation in scribal texts as 'free' or indicative of 'corruption', this volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the point of view of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, seeing scribes as agents embedded in particular geographical, temporal, and sociocultural environments. This volume comprises a set of studies of scribal variation, beginning from the well-established domain of scribal variation in pre-modern English as a methodological point of departure, and proceeding to studies of scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Late Antique and Islamic Egypt. This volume introduces to Egyptology concepts such as scribal communities, networks, and repertoires, and applies them to a variety of phenomena, including features of lexicon, grammar, orthography, palaeography, layout, and format. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 373 pages) : illustrations, charts, facsimiles |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191080500 0191080500 9780191821882 0191821888 9780192508461 0192508466 0198768109 9780198768104 |