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THE ROMAN TURN AMONG JEWS, GREEK PAGANS, AND CHRISTIANS

Descrizione del progetto

Roma come epicentro culturale e intellettuale

L’Impero romano, che viene spesso associato alla conquista militare e al successo economico, ha anche creato un nuovo linguaggio filosofico, letterario e giuridico che è passato in gran parte inosservato, nonostante abbia plasmato la civiltà occidentale. Rappresentanti di gruppi minoritari, come ebrei, greci e cristiani, arrivarono a Roma e diedero vita a vivaci discorsi, plasmando sia la propria identità che il loro pubblico provinciale. Il progetto ROMANA, finanziato dal CER, si propone di scoprire queste connessioni culturali nascoste attraverso lo studio di una serie di testi in lingue diverse, dal latino al greco, passando per l’ebraico e l’aramaico. Prendendo in esame queste interazioni attraverso le lenti della filosofia, della letteratura e dell’analisi giuridica, ROMANA si propone di ridisegnare la mappa tradizionale dell’Impero romano.

Obiettivo

ROMANA aims to unveil the ubiquitous presence of Rome in Jewish, Greek-Pagan and Christian texts and to expose the strategies of cultural interaction between imperialist forces and a range of minority groups. It will explore how intellectual discourses that have defined the West, namely those of Greek elites, Christian groups, as well as Hellenistic and rabbinic Judaism, were constructed through a series of contested, hidden, and disavowed interactions with the dominant force of empire. The project will redraw the traditional map of the Roman Empire to challenge its sharp dichotomy between Rome and the provinces and demonstrate the deep entanglements of each group of “provincial” elites despite their claim to cultural purity.
The starting point is first-century Hellenistic Judaism, as its main representatives—Philo and Josephus—became active in Rome as prolific authors writing in Greek, who combined philosophical, literary and legal interests with a keen appeal to Roman audiences. Their modes of acculturation will serve as a compass to unlock similar cultural entanglements in the Second Sophistic, early Christianity and rabbinic literature.
The project objectives entail a focused study of three trajectories, philosophical, literary and legal, to be exposed as doubly entangled, namely with each other and with Roman discourses. The method will be a close, comparative and culturally aware reading of whole corpora of texts in Greek, Hebrew/Aramaic and Latin, based on the available manuscripts, moving through Greek-Christian writing into Rabbinic Judaism and the texts that contest the space between them. We will reach insights of a new order in fields which have thus far been overwhelmingly studied in double isolation or on the limited basis of digital searches of keywords.
The results will be published in 6 monographs, special issues in leading journals, a consultation at an international conference and wide dissemination in Israel, up to changes in school curricula.

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Istituzione ospitante

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 2 500 000,00
Indirizzo
EDMOND J SAFRA CAMPUS GIVAT RAM
91904 Jerusalem
Israele
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 2 500 000,00

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