Descripción del proyecto
Conocimiento de la movilidad humana en la antigüedad judía
¿Cómo se percibía o imaginaba la movilidad humana en la antigüedad judía? Las repuestas pueden encontrarse en una selección de textos de la Biblia hebrea y otros escritos judíos de la época helenística y romana temprana (ca. 300 a. C.–100 d. C). El proyecto ANINAN, financiado con fondos europeos, llevará a cabo la investigación centrándose en fuentes literarias provenientes de distintas partes de la región mediterránea y escritas en hebreo, arameo, griego, latín y ge’ez. El objetivo es producir una serie de casos de estudio que reflejen la representación de la movilidad humana y sus confines sociales en textos israelíes y judíos. La investigación que se emprenderá en ANINAN también conlleva una comparación de las representaciones culturales del viaje en un marco intersectorial. Se espera que el método elegido explique cuestiones relativas al poder y la estratificación social que llevó a formas voluntarias y forzadas de movilidad en la zona del Mediterráneo oriental y más allá.
Objetivo
ANINAN investigates literary and cultural representations of travel and mobility – the often temporary move of a person from her or his home to another location – in ancient Israelite/Jewish narratives, including selected texts of the Hebrew Bible and other Jewish writings from the Hellenistic and early Roman eras (ca. 300 BCE – 100 CE). The sources, which originate from different parts of the Mediterranean region, are written or preserved in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Ge’ez.
The aim is to understand how human mobility was perceived and/or imagined in Jewish antiquity, including its agents, motives, and outcomes. The main objectives are: (1) to produce a series of case-studies that illustrate the portrayal of human mobility and its social confines in Israelite/Jewish literature; and (2) to compare and theorize the cultural representations of travel in an intersectional frame and, as a result, to provide a ground-breaking interpretative framework for the study of mobility in texts from the human past. The selected intersectional approach is novel and specifically unearths questions of power and social stratification that evidently pertain to (in)voluntary forms of mobility, including the individual profile of the traveller and the social realities that prompted, enabled, or compelled her or his travel in the first place.
The challenge is that we know nothing about the power dynamics of ancient Israelite/Jewish travel accounts. They are expected to reveal striking intersectional concerns, highlighting the complexity of human phenomena such as mobility. While multiple ‘categories of difference’ characterize the travelling agents, mobility also affects and shapes these categories, e.g. by leading the agent to negotiate, refine, or recreate aspects of her or his identity. The narratives also illustrate encounters between the Israelites/Jews and ‘others’, which results in a new understanding of cultural interaction in the ancient eastern Mediterranean.
Ámbito científico
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
8000 Aarhus C
Dinamarca