Storyworlds in Transition Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantin...
Storyworlds in Transition Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods
This project proposes the first systematic study of Coptic apocrypha covering the entire timespan of Coptic literary production, and it aims to do so with unprecedented methodological sophistication. Apocrypha is here defined as (...
ver más
¿Tienes un proyecto y buscas un partner? Gracias a nuestro motor inteligente podemos recomendarte los mejores socios y ponerte en contacto con ellos. Te lo explicamos en este video
Proyectos interesantes
HAR2015-65176-P
LOS TIPOS ICONOGRAFICOS: ANTIGUO TESTAMENTO I
14K€
Cerrado
DEMBIB
From Texts to Literature Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Fo...
3M€
Cerrado
FLOS
Florilegia Syriaca. The Intercultural Dissemination of Gree...
1M€
Cerrado
FFI2015-65118-C2-2-P
EL AUTOR BIZANTINO II: TRANSMISION DE LOS TEXTOS Y BIBLIOTEC...
32K€
Cerrado
CAJS
The Christian Appropriation of the Jewish Scriptures Allego...
655K€
Cerrado
COCALLMA
Cultural variety in the Christian Orient Christian Arabic L...
149K€
Cerrado
Información proyecto APOCRYPHA
Duración del proyecto: 64 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2020-03-16
Fecha Fin: 2025-07-31
Líder del proyecto
Innovasjon Norge
No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Presupuesto del proyecto
2M€
Fecha límite de participación
Sin fecha límite de participación.
Descripción del proyecto
This project proposes the first systematic study of Coptic apocrypha covering the entire timespan of Coptic literary production, and it aims to do so with unprecedented methodological sophistication. Apocrypha is here defined as (1) texts and traditions that develop or expand upon characters and events of the biblical storyworld; (2) and/or contain a claim to authorship by a character from that storyworld or a direct witness to it. A great number of such apocryphal texts and traditions has been preserved in Coptic manuscripts from the fourth to the twelfth centuries. Most of these texts are attributed to apostles or other important early Christian figures, and over time such materials were also increasingly embedded in pseudepigraphical frames, such as in homilies attributed to later, but still early, heroes of the Church. The manuscripts in which this literature has been preserved were almost exclusively produced and used in Egyptian monasteries. Although the use of such apocrypha were at times controversial, the evidence clearly indicates the widespread use of such literature in Coptic monasteries over centuries, and this project will investigate the contents, development, and functions of apocrypha over time, as they were copied, adapted, and used in changing socio-religious contexts over time. The period covered by the project saw drastic changes in the religious landscape of Egypt, from its Christianity having a dominant position in the fourth century, through the marginalization of Egyptian Christianity in relation to the imperial Chalcedonian Church after 451, to a period of increasing marginalization in relation to Islam following the Arab conquest of Egypt in the mid-seventh century. The project will investigate how these changing contexts are reflected in the Coptic apocrypha that were copied and used in Egyptian monasteries, and what functions they had for their users throughout the period under investigation.