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Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions, Ostler, N
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- Languages
- ISBN
- 9781620405154
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1620405156
ISBN-13
9781620405154
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211542858
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Publication Name
Passwords to Paradise : How Languages Have Re-Invented World Religions
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Subject
General, History, Linguistics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-302470
Reviews
What a fascinating book . . . highlights the many currents that change language, that change peoples and nations. Told with tenderness, packed with facts, quotations, jests and illustrations, this is a book that earns the great story it tells., Informative and fascinating . . . Ostler's treatment of Latin as a mother to the supple vernacular tongues we call Romance languages is particularly good, and his evaluation of the Renaissance humanists and the way in which they may have loved Latin to death is provocative., "Lucid, erudite and elegant." -- The New York Times Book Review on AD INFINITUM "Informative and fascinating . . . Ostler's treatment of Latin as a mother to the supple vernacular tongues we call Romance languages is particularly good, and his evaluation of the Renaissance humanists and the way in which they may have loved Latin to death is provocative." -- Los Angeles Times on AD INFINITUM "What a fascinating book . . . highlights the many currents that change language, that change peoples and nations. Told with tenderness, packed with facts, quotations, jests and illustrations, this is a book that earns the great story it tells." -- Philadelphia Inquirer on AD INFINITUM, "Impressively vast in scope and content." -- Kirkus Reviews "Lucid, erudite and elegant." -- The New York Times Book Review on AD INFINITUM "Informative and fascinating . . . Ostler's treatment of Latin as a mother to the supple vernacular tongues we call Romance languages is particularly good, and his evaluation of the Renaissance humanists and the way in which they may have loved Latin to death is provocative." -- Los Angeles Times on AD INFINITUM "What a fascinating book . . . highlights the many currents that change language, that change peoples and nations. Told with tenderness, packed with facts, quotations, jests and illustrations, this is a book that earns the great story it tells." -- Philadelphia Inquirer on AD INFINITUM, "Impressively vast in scope and content." -- Kirkus Reviews "For those fascinated by linguistic transitions, this impressive study is a feast." -- Publishers Weekly "Lucid, erudite and elegant." -- The New York Times Book Review on AD INFINITUM "Informative and fascinating . . . Ostler's treatment of Latin as a mother to the supple vernacular tongues we call Romance languages is particularly good, and his evaluation of the Renaissance humanists and the way in which they may have loved Latin to death is provocative." -- Los Angeles Times on AD INFINITUM "What a fascinating book . . . highlights the many currents that change language, that change peoples and nations. Told with tenderness, packed with facts, quotations, jests and illustrations, this is a book that earns the great story it tells." -- Philadelphia Inquirer on AD INFINITUM, "Impressively vast in scope and content." -- Kirkus Reviews "For those fascinated by linguistic transitions, this impressive study is a feast." -- Publishers Weekly "Ostler's extensive research and well-drawn conclusions . . . make this an intriguing read." -- Shelf Awareness "Lucid, erudite and elegant." -- The New York Times Book Review on AD INFINITUM "Informative and fascinating . . . Ostler's treatment of Latin as a mother to the supple vernacular tongues we call Romance languages is particularly good, and his evaluation of the Renaissance humanists and the way in which they may have loved Latin to death is provocative." -- Los Angeles Times on AD INFINITUM "What a fascinating book . . . highlights the many currents that change language, that change peoples and nations. Told with tenderness, packed with facts, quotations, jests and illustrations, this is a book that earns the great story it tells." -- Philadelphia Inquirer on AD INFINITUM
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
The fascinating chronicle of how language has influenced the world's great religions--Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and more., "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a compelling and beguiling metaphor for the Christian story of the Beginning. To further complicate matters, the words we read now are in any number of languages that would have been unknown or unrecognizable at the time of their composition. The gospel may have been originally dictated or written in Aramaic, but our only written source for the story is in Greek. Today, as your average American reader of the New Testament picks up his or her Bible off the shelf, the phrase as it appears has been translated from various linguistic intermediaries before its current manifestation in modern English. How to understand these words then, when so many other translators, languages, and cultures have exercised some level of influence on them? Christian tradition is not unique in facing this problem. All religions--if they have global aspirations--have to change in order to spread their influence, and often language has been the most powerful agent thereof. Passwords to Paradise explores the effects that language difference and language conversion have wrought on the world's great faiths, spanning more than two thousand years. It is an original and intriguing perspective on the history of religion by a master linguistic historian.
LC Classification Number
BL65.L2
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