Octavo in dust jacket, xviii, 523 pp., Appendix A: Significant Documents of the Bar Kochba Discoveries: Signatories and Writers, Appendix B: Signatories and Writers Listed by Name, notes, index of subjects, index of modern authors, index of ancient sources A volume in The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library.

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Title: Language & Literacy in Roman Judea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents.
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0300204531
ISBN 13: 9780300204537
Binding: Hardbound
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew Aramaic Greek and Nabataean contracts and letters preserved among the Bar Kokhba texts a valuable cache of ancient Middle Eastern artifacts. His investigation of Judean documentary and epistolary culture derives for the first time numerical data concerning literacy rates language choices and writing fluency during the two-century span between Pompey's conquest and Hadrian's rule. He explores questions of who could read in these ancient times of Jesus and Hillel what they read and how language worked in this complex multi-tongued milieu. Included also is an analysis of the ways these documents were written and the interplay among authors secretaries and scribes. Additional analysis provides readers with a detailed picture of the people families and lives behind the texts.

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Michael Owen Wise is Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Languages at the University of Northwestern–St. Paul. He lives in St. Paul, MN.

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