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Methodology · A New Methodology for Comparative Analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Cognate Literature

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-10-01 → 2020-09-30
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A New Methodology for Comparative Analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Cognate Literature

In the field of tradition history, scholars of New Testament and Ancient Judaism are driven by the conviction that the comparison of texts that share analogies in motifs, concepts, and ideas can enrich our understanding of the cultural, legal, ritual, and theological background that was shared by the authors of these texts. However, researchers in both fields still struggle with whether parallels between comparanda are appropriately analysed when genealogical dependence between these texts cannot be proven. It comes therefore as no surprise when some of these scholars express their reluctance to compare traditions from the New Testament with texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls (henceforth Scrolls). After all, the Scrolls were collected and in part written by members of the late Second Temple Jewish group called the Yahad (probably identical to the group otherwise known as Essenes) who very rigorously tried to separate themselves from other Jewish groups and communities. In my project “A New Methodology for Comparative Analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Cognate Literature” I took an integrative approach to the Scrolls, the New Testament and other ancient Jewish literature on the basis of the literary-theoretical definition of texts as discourses. With the help of my discourse-analytical criteria, researchers are enabled to compare texts from a tradition-historical perspective. These criteria are also applicable in other disciplines than New Testament and Ancient Jewish Studies, namely in Religious Studies more broadly, Classics, Philosophy, and History.

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Цел на проекта

My post-doctoral project entitled “A New Methodology for Comparative Analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Cognate Literature” will take an integrative approach to the Dead Sea Scrolls (henceforth scrolls), the New Testament and other ancient Jewish literature. It is therewith part of an ongoing and lively debate on how the scrolls can shed new light on and give meaning to texts that have puzzled New Testament scholarship all along. I intend to describe and highlight more prominently the different „evolutionary factors“ like the absence from a sacrificial cult, the focus on a unique canon of formative scriptures, the understanding of the group as a “holy building” and an “eternal planting” (1QS 11:7-9), and the impact of Greco-Roman culture that shaped the language, laws and theology of the communities behind the scrolls. My first challenge when turning to New Testament traditions will be to show how its authors transferred ideas and traditions from a Palestinian Jewish background into a new cultural milieu with an almost entirely different encyclopaedia of knowledge an act that I would call “translation of traditions”. One of the biggest difficulties in tradition-historical comparison between New Testament and Yahadic writings is to determine whether or not the traditions incorporated into New Testament writings are of Palestinian Jewish origin but phrased differently with Greek motives and expressions. Only when we know the “source language” that is the underlying concept behind these expressions we will be able to identify its tradition-historical origin. With the identification of Palestinian Jewish traditions in New Testament writings the last step that is the comparison of concepts that underlie New Testament traditions and the ideas from which Yahadic traditions originated can then be implemented.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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