Descripción del proyecto
Estudio de las relaciones iniciales entre judíos y cristianos
Existe una brecha académica relativa a los contactos entre practicantes del judaísmo y del cristianismo, así como a la dinámica de la asimilación religiosa, la cooperación y la diferenciación en las vidas diarias de los judíos y los cristianos antiguos. El proyecto EJCM, financiado con fondos europeos, se centrará en estudiar la magia mediterránea y las relaciones entre judíos y cristianos durante la Antigüedad tardía. Llevará a cabo un análisis comparativo de los textos judíos y cristianos considerados «mágicos» y de objetos, como amuletos y cuencos mágicos. Hasta ahora, el estudio de las relaciones iniciales entre judíos y cristianos no ha tenido verdaderamente en cuenta las evidencias «mágicas». Además, no existen análisis constantes de las primeras tradiciones mágicas judías y cristianas, tanto de comparación como de contacto. Un equipo interdisciplinar abordará esta brecha académica.
Objetivo
This interdisciplinary project will contribute to the study of both Mediterranean magic and Jewish–Christian relations during late antiquity (III–VII CE) by providing a comparative analysis of the Jewish and Christian magical texts and objects (e.g. amulets and incantation bowls) that is informed by an innovative, synthetic interpretative framework. This project will investigate the contacts between Jewish and Christian practitioners as well as the dynamics of religious assimilation, cooperation, and differentiation in the everyday lives of ancient Jews and Christians.
Although scholarly study of the early Jewish and Christian practices, rituals, and texts deemed “magical” has blossomed over the past few decades, this research has tended to be divided along disciplinary lines, with historians of Judaism studying Jewish magic and historians of Christianity studying Christian magic. Independent from this line of inquiry there is a long history of scholarship devoted to early Jewish–Christian relations which has detailed the diverse ways Jews and Christians interacted in the ancient world. However, the study of early Jewish–Christian relations has not taken into serious consideration the “magical” evidence. In short, despite these respective lines of scholarship within and across early Jewish and Christian studies, there has not yet been a sustained analysis of early Jewish and Christian magical traditions in comparison and in contact.
An interdisciplinary team (PI, 1 Postdoc, and 2 PhD students) will address this scholarly gap by examining local and global features of the magical artefacts – and the literary traditions about magic – from late-antique Jewish and Christian communities. In particular, this group will focus on the similarities, differences, and contacts between these traditions in four central areas of their magical practices: biblical texts and traditions; sacred names and titles; the word-image-material relation; and references to illicit rituals.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
30123 Venezia
Italia