My book, The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, explores early Christian ideas about foreign languages, linguistic history, and linguistic diversity. Over the course of six chapters, I investigate how language differences and language-related socio-cultural stereotypes were drawn into the process of constructing and negotiating distinctly Christian and specific confessional identities in the late antique Mediterranean.The essay indicates that the book also gives attention to Jewish ideas about the same matters.
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