Contesting languages: heteroglossia and the politics of language in the early church
How did the Apostle Paul navigate the language differences in Corinth? In this book, Ekaputra Tupamahu investigates Corinthian tongue-speech as a site of political struggle. Tupamahu demonstrates that conceptualizing speaking in tongues as ecstatic, unintelligible expressions is an interpretive inve...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Tupamahu, Ekaputra, Contesting languages : heteroglossia and the politics of language in the early church] (2023) (Young, Stephen L.)
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| Series/Journal: | Oxford scholarship online
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| RelBib Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion & beliefs
B Paul the Apostle, Saint B Religion B Sociolinguistics History To 1500 (Middle East) B Language and languages Political aspects History To 1500 B Bible. New Testament Language, style B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 B Sociolinguistics History To 1500 (Mediterranean Region) B Language and languages Religious aspects Christianity |
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| Summary: | How did the Apostle Paul navigate the language differences in Corinth? In this book, Ekaputra Tupamahu investigates Corinthian tongue-speech as a site of political struggle. Tupamahu demonstrates that conceptualizing speaking in tongues as ecstatic, unintelligible expressions is an interpretive invention of German romantic-nationalist scholarship. Instead, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of language, Tupamahu finds two forces of language at work in the New Testament: a centripetalizing force of monolingualism, which attempts to force heterogeneous languages into a singular linguistic form, and a countervailing centrifugal force that diverse languages unleash. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0197581153 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197581124.001.0001 |