Code-switching with the gods : the bilingual (Old Coptc-Greek) spells of PGM IV (P. Bibliothèque Nationale Supplément Grec. 574) and their linguistic, religious, and socio-cultural context in late Roman Egypt /

Code-switching with the gods : the bilingual (Old Coptc-Greek) spells of PGM IV (P. Bibliothèque Nationale Supplément Grec. 574) and their linguistic, religious, and socio-cultural context in late Roman Egypt /

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Author / Creator:	Love, Edward O. D., author.
Imprint:	Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. Beiheft ; Band 4 Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. Beiheft ; Bd. 4.
Subject:	Bibliothèque nationale de France. -- Manuscript. -- Supplément grec 574. Coptic language -- Papyri. Code switching (Linguistics) -- Egypt. Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) -- Egypt. Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Egypt. Multilingualism -- Egypt. Sociolinguistics -- Egypt. Classical antiquities. Code switching (Linguistics) Coptic language. Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) Multilingualism. Religion. Sociolinguistics. Egypt -- Religion. Egypt -- Antiquities, Roman. Egypt. Early works.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11757641

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ISBN:	9783110467833 3110467836 9783110467840 3110467844 9783110466362 3110466368 3110461137 3110466368 9783110461138
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. In English. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2019).
Summary:	This volume provides the first comprehensive text edition of the Egyptian language sections of P. Bibliothèque Nationale Supplément Grec. 574 (PGM IV) and analysis of their script, language, and the bilingual spells which they are part of. The magical practices preserved in the PDM and PGM have been published for nearly a century, yet it is only recently that research has focused on investigating the complex relationship between the languages, scripts, and religious traditions they exhibit, as well as the question of who composed, copied, and practiced these spells. Focusing on the bilingual divinations, lust spell, and exorcism of PGM IV, written in the Egyptian and Greek languages - and rendered in Old Coptic scripts and the Greek script respectively - this volume analyses their textual content and ritual mechanics, contextualised among the PDM and PGM, and investigates the potential identities of the magical practitioners of late Roman and Late Antique Egypt. Encompassing the disciplines of Egyptology, Coptology, Papyrology, and Late Antique studies, this volume focuses in particular on the themes of magical practice, bilingualism, script, and the social context of magic in Egypt during the 2nd to 4th centuries CE.
Other form:	Print version: 9783110461138 3110461137
Standard no.:	10.1515/9783110467833