Egyptologists papyrologists and other scholars of history and literature explore linguistic diversity in Egypt from fourth century BC to the Middle Ages. The volume is innovative in taking a
socio-historical rather than linguistic approach, and by extending into the later Roman period and beyond, which has been little explored by scholars. The topics include linguistic identity in
Graeco-Roman Egypt, bilingual papyrological archives, bilingualism in the papyri, multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt, early Coptic epistolography, language choice in the
Qurra Dossier, and whether Aristophanes Son of Johannes was an eighth-century bilingual scribe. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
