Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period

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ID19972256
EditorsJennifer Cromwell (0000-0003-0228-1371), Eitan Grossman (0000-0001-7479-7831)
Year2018
Publication date2018-02-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueScribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198768104.001.0001
OpenAlexW3005734044
ISBN9780198768104
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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

Archaeology · Art · Egyptology · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Palaeography · Variation (astronomy) · Variety (cybernetics) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Classics · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy

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