Koine

Atticism and Koine in Greek Prose Texts by Jewish Authors

The book aims to provide a solid basis to those readers of the Bible interested in revisiting its evaluation as a sample of texts, both on the linguistic and on the literary side. Besides a Hebrew product, given the social, anthropological, religious, economic, and geographic tradition to which they are related, their linguistic and literary background also point to a Greek tradition. This study will interest first of all the scholars working in the history of the Greek language in the Imperial Age, very often devoted to the problems of linguistic contact. The book offers valuable information indeed for people of multiple interests: history of religion, translation studies, and Imperial Greek literature. But we envisage a much wider audience, since the language of Jesus, the apostles and generally the first Christians has been a controversial matter that every year adds new contributions to the extant literature.

The Koine Vision

Post-Koiné: Studies of Non-Anthropocentric (Poetic) Languages

In this book you will come across an authorial formula of extrahuman community and communication. The formula includes languages polemical with the narrow model of community that often excludes certain human and non-human beings. Alternative languages are sensitive to the codes of violence directed against animals so as to inclusively create a new interspecies non-antagonistic collectivity. What especially seeks such alternative languages is poetry. It not only represents the true character of existing relationships with animals or determines their shape but also can interfere in them, suspend the control of logocentric order, and, as a result, reduce the ambiguous human guardianship over animals that, in turn, requires the verification and questioning of the guardianship’s position in language. This publication treats Polish poetry as a statement equal with—if not precursory for—the discursive calls for the abolition of anthropocentric dominance. The book proves that critical reflection on the language that consolidates the community redefines our attitude toward animals.