Descripción del proyecto
Conocimientos nuevos sobre las intrincadas conexiones entre las actividades rituales y textuales
La erudición mesopotámica y el sacerdocio mesopotámico son aspectos complementarios del mismo fenómeno, la escolástica. Aunque originalmente este concepto hacía referencia a las actividades académicas de los sacerdotes católicos en la Edad Media, también se puede aplicar al estudio de comunidades no europeas de sacerdotes eruditos. En este sentido, el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos AMPS utilizará el modelo escolástico para estudiar la comunidad sacerdotal-escolástica de la antigua Mesopotamia. Su objetivo es proporcionar conocimientos nuevos sobre las intrincadas conexiones entre las actividades rituales y textuales de esta comunidad y esclarecer la perspectiva holística y sistemática del mundo de sus integrantes. En concreto, se reconstruirá la realidad social, religiosa e intelectual en la que se escribieron las antiguas tablillas cuneiformes de Mesopotamia.
Objetivo
The scholarly texts of ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE, specifically commentaries written in Akkadian on cuneiform tablets, were the work of priests who also performed cultic activities in the temple. The proposed project seeks to demonstrate how these scholarly and cultic activities were interrelated and how they shaped the self-identity of the priestly-scholarly community that was in charge of both. The project thus aims to bridge the gap between the study of intellectual history and the study of priesthood in ancient Mesopotamia, which are treated as two separate fields in Assyriology.
The project innovatively treats Mesopotamian scholarship and Mesopotamian priesthood as complementary aspects of one phenomenon: “scholasticism.” This concept, which originally referred to the scholarly activities of Catholic priests in the Middle Ages, has recently been applied to the study of non-European communities of priestly scholars with great success. Using the scholastic model to study the priestly-scholarly community of ancient Mesopotamia will reveal the intricate connections between the ritual and textual activities of this community and illuminate the holistic and systematic worldview of its members.
Combining traditional philology and the comparative approach, the project investigates how, like other scholastic communities, the scholar-priests of ancient Mesopotamia “internalized” the liturgical texts they studied and performed, how they attributed authority to these texts, and how their study of the liturgical corpus generated new exegetical texts. Key points of comparison between the scholar-priests of ancient Mesopotamia and various ancient and contemporary scholastic communities include their interest in language, textual authority, commentaries, and rituals. By applying the comparative method to the study of cuneiform tablets, the project aims to reconstruct the social, religious, and intellectual reality in which they were written.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
- humanidadeshistoria y arqueologíahistoriahistoria antigua
- humanidadeslenguas y literaturaestudios literarioshistoria de la literatura
- humanidadesfilosofía, ética y religiónfilosofíahistoria de la filosofíafilosofía medieval
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
91904 Jerusalem
Israel