By John Sawyer
It explores bilingualism, language studying, literacy, e-book construction and translation, in addition to the various extra explicitly non secular elements, together with ideals approximately language, missionary zeal, ritual, conservatism and the facility of a priestly institution.
Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts sheds new mild at the position of the facility of phrases, spoken and written, in religion.
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