Titles of the New Testament: A New Approach to Manuscripts and the History of Interpretation

Información del proyecto

TiNT

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 847428

DOI

10.3030/847428

Fecha de la firma de la CE 9 Octubre 2019

Fecha de inicio 1 Diciembre 2020

Fecha de finalización 30 Noviembre 2026

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coste total

€ 1 498 451,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 1 498 451,00

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
United Kingdom

Periodic Reporting for period 3 - TiNT (Titles of the New Testament: A New Approach to Manuscripts and the History of Interpretation)

Período documentado: 2023-12-01 hasta 2025-05-31

Resumen del contexto y de los objetivos generales del proyecto

This project addresses questions relating to the transmission and ontology of the New Testament, using its complex titular tradition as a way to focus on its paratexts as key to its understanding. We are working to demonstrate that the New Testament is a complex collection of thousands of manuscripts produced by many people from many time periods and locations. Each manuscript is a fragment of the whole, and examining paratexts creates new avenues for exploring the big questions of the discipline. The main problem that we are addressing concerns how scholars use and conceive of the most primary resources of the discipline. This approach is important because it gives us a more complex perspective on ancient sacred literature and creates new ways for working with ancient and medieval cultural heritage documents. Our objects are threefold: (1) to digitally edit every form of every title in every Greek manuscripts; (2) to use this new information to carry out research on topics like scribal habits, ancient textual scholarship, art history, textual transmission, and reception; and (3) to create a comprehensive edition of every inscription and subscription title in the Greek tradition as part of a larger concurrent editorial project in New Testament studies.

Trabajo realizado desde el comienzo del proyecto hasta el final del período abarcado por el informe y los principales resultados hasta la fecha

To date we have created over 13,500 complex annotations on the New Testament's Greek manuscripts, combining metadata, textual transcription, and image markup. These annotations serve as the base data for a search tool we are developing, a tool that will enable us to create new information for old disciplinary questions. We have also carried out research on the manuscripts and traditions we have encountered, presented our research at multiple scholarly venues, and are working toward larger publication projects. We have partnered with museums, monasteries, software developers, and computer scientists to carry out this work.

Avances que van más allá del estado de la técnica e impacto potencial esperado (incluida la repercusión socioeconómica y las implicaciones sociales más amplias del proyecto hasta la fecha)

We have progressed beyond the state of the art by emphasising the critical, historical, theological, and intellectual value of paratextual traditions, especially for literary texts as complex as the New Testament. We continue to work to find new ways of engaging our artefacts central to our discipline. Instead of using manuscripts for text critical purposes in this instance (surely an enduringly relevant method), we focus on manuscripts as instances of reception and reading, highlighting the generative value of exploring the transmission of the New Testament as key to understanding its essential ontology.