Cultural and Religious Impacts of Long-Term Cross-Cultural Migration Between Egypt and the Levant

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An increase of cross-cultural learning as a consequence of increased travel and migration between Egypt and the Levant during the Iron Age occurred after millennia of migration in earlier times. The result was an Egyptian-Levantine koine, often not recognized as relevant by historians due to an uncritical reproduction of ancient myths of separation. However, the cultural exchange triggered by migration is attested in the language, in the iconography of the region, in the history of the alphabet, in literary motifs, in the characterization of central characters of the Hebrew Bible and, last but not least, in the rise of new religions, which integrated the experience of otherness in a new ethos.

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Staubli, T., (2017) “Cultural and Religious Impacts of Long-Term Cross-Cultural Migration Between Egypt and the Levant”, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 12(1), 51-88.

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Thomas Staubli (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

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