Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 December 2017
- ISBN 9780198768104
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 238x164x29 mm
- Weight 756 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 87 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the perspective of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, as a rich source for understanding the scribes' complex socio-cultural environments. A series of case studies applies this framework to scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Islamic Egypt.
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Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the actual people who produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents. While traditional research has focused on identifying a 'pure' or 'original' text behind the actual manuscripts that have come down to us from pre-modern Egypt, the volume looks instead at variation - different ways of saying the same thing - as a rich source for understanding the complex social and cultural environments in which scribes lived and worked, breaking with the traditional conception of variation in scribal texts as 'free' or indicative of 'corruption'. As such, it presents a novel reconceptualization of 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 socio-cultural environments. Introducing to Egyptology concepts such as scribal communities, networks, and repertoires, among others, the authors then apply them to a variety of phenomena, including features of lexicon, grammar, orthography, palaeography, layout, and format. After first presenting this conceptual framework, they demonstrate how it has been applied to better-studied pre-modern societies by drawing upon the well-established domain of scribal variation in pre-modern English, before proceeding to a series of case studies applying these concepts to scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from the languages and writing systems of Pharaonic times, to those of Late Antique and Islamic Egypt.
The coherence and quality of the papers, together with their wealth of relevant observations, should make Scribal Repertoires a beacon for the socio-linguistic research of ancient and medieval Egyptian manuscripts for many years to come.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Scribes, repertoires, and variation
From scribal repertoire to text community: the challenge of variable writing systems
Set them free?! Investigating spelling and scribal variation in language and history
Linguistic variation in Ancient Egyptian: an introduction to the state of the art (with special attention to the community of Deir el-Medina)
The scribal repertoire of Amennakhte son of Ipuy: describing variation across Late Egyptian registers
Words of thieves
Scribal habits at the Tebtunis temple library: on materiality, formal features, and palaeography
On the regionalisation of Roman-period Egyptian hands
κατ`*a τ`*o *d*u*vατ´*o*v: Demotic-Greek translation in the archive of the Theban choachytes
Scribes in private letter writing: linguistic perspectives
Letters from high to low in the Greco-Roman period
Greek or Coptic? Scribal decisions in 8th century Egypt (Thebes)
Copyist and scribe: two professions for a single man? Palaeographical and linguistic observations on some practices of the Theban region according to Coptic texts from the 7th-8th centuries
A scribe, his bag of tricks, what it was for, and where he got it. Scribal registers and techniques in Bodl.Mss.Copt.(P) a.2 & 3
'These Two Lines. . .': Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic letter-writing in the Classical Genizah period
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
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