Josef Eskhult
Affiliated Researcher at Department of Linguistics and Philology; Guests, affiliates and others
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 73 78
- E-mail:
- Josef.Eskhult@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Research interests
– the history of Western linguistic thought from antiquity to the present, in particular 1400–1800
– Neo-Latin philology: the study of Latin scholarly texts in the period 1400–1800
– the history of Hebrew philology and Latin Bible translations 1500-1750
– the history of translation theory from antiquity to the Renaissance and the Enlightenment
– Augustine's language philosophy: his theory on the nature of language and its impact on Western semio-linguistic thinking 1400–1800
Publications
Recent publications
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Augustine on the nature of language and on linguistic diversity
Part of Language and culture in early Christianity: a companion, Peeters Publishers, 2025
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Part of Turcologica Upsaliensia, p. 47-71, Brill Academic Publishers, 2020
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Part of Essays in the history of dialect studies., p. 85-106, 2020
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Part of Journal of Latin Linguistics, p. 191-230, 2018
- DOI for Vulgar Latin as an emergent concept in the Italian Renaissance (1435–1601): its ancient and medieval prehistory and its Renaissance emergence and development
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Part of Historiographia Linguistica, p. 393-403, 2016
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Journal of Latin Linguistics, p. 191-230, 2018
- DOI for Vulgar Latin as an emergent concept in the Italian Renaissance (1435–1601): its ancient and medieval prehistory and its Renaissance emergence and development
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The primeval language and Hebrew ethnicity in ancient Jewish and Christian thought until Augustine
Part of Revue d'Etudes Augustiniennes et Patristiques, p. 291-347, 2014
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Augustine and the primaeval language in early modern exegesis and philology
Part of Language & History, p. 98-119, 2013
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The language of Jesus and related questions – a historical survey
Part of KUSATU: Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt, utgiven av Reinhard G. Lehmann och Johannes F. Diehl, p. 315-373, 2013
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Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 145-164, 2008
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Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 31-67, 2006
Chapters in book
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Augustine on the nature of language and on linguistic diversity
Part of Language and culture in early Christianity: a companion, Peeters Publishers, 2025
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Part of Turcologica Upsaliensia, p. 47-71, Brill Academic Publishers, 2020
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Part of Metasprachliche Reflexion und Kontinuität, Nodus Publikationen, 2014
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Part of Sébastien Castellion: des Écritures à l’écriture, p. 109-138, Classiques Garnier, 2013
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Part of Shaping the Bible in the Reformation, p. 167-185, Brill Academic Publishers, 2012
Conference papers
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Part of Essays in the history of dialect studies., p. 85-106, 2020
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Views on language history around 1700: Reception and innovation
Part of Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis, 2012
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Humanistic Latin Versions of the Hebrew Old Testament
Part of Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Budapestinensis, 2006
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Theological treatises in Sweden and Germany around 1700: Style, phraseology and vocabulary
Part of Acta conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis, p. 293-304, 2006
Monograph doctoral thesis
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2007
Other
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Part of Historiographia Linguistica, p. 393-403, 2016
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Part of Historiographia Linguistica, p. 393-403, 2016