In The Multilingual Jesus and the Sociolinguistic World of the New Testament, Hughson Ong provides a comprehensive study of the sociolinguistic dynamics that compose the speech community of ancient Palestine, including its historical linguistic shifts and geographical linguistic landscape.
Hughson T. Ong is Lecturer in New Testament and Assistant Managing Editor of McMaster Divinity College Press at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He has published numerous journal articles and book essays on various New Testament topics, including linguistics and sociolinguistics.