Descrizione del progetto
Studio delle prime relazioni ebraiche e cristiane
Esiste un divario accademico riguardante i contatti tra i praticanti ebrei e cristiani, nonché le dinamiche dell’assimilazione religiosa, della cooperazione e della differenziazione nella vita quotidiana degli antichi ebrei e cristiani. Il progetto EJCM, finanziato dall’UE, si concentrerà sullo studio della magia mediterranea e delle relazioni ebraico-cristiane durante la tarda antichità. Condurrà un’analisi comparativa dei testi ebraici e cristiani ritenuti «magici» e di oggetti, quali amuleti e coppe magiche. A tutt’oggi, lo studio delle prime relazioni ebraico-cristiane non ha preso in seria considerazione le prove «magiche». Inoltre, mancano analisi sostenute delle prime tradizioni magiche ebraiche e cristiane a confronto e in contatto. Un team interdisciplinare affronterà questo divario accademico.
Obiettivo
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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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-STG - Starting GrantIstituzione ospitante
30123 Venezia
Italia