The Ancient Fable Tradition and Early Christian Literature

古代寓言传统与早期基督教文学

• 批准号: 495720705
• 负责人: Dr. Justin Strong, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Neues Testament
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/495720705?language=en
• 关键词: Ancient; Fable; Tradition; Early; Christian

The project relates the fable literature of the Greek and Roman periods with early Christian writings. Although fable literature was discussed in Jülicher’s work, with few exceptions, fables have been ignored in New Testament studies since the beginning of the twentieth century. This was due, among other reasons, to a reductionist understanding of the fable genre (as an unrealistic animal story, which does not apply to many texts). Furthermore, since the historical Jesus is often regarded as the “inventor” of the parable genre, theological reasons have disinclined scholars from relativizing this special position. The project makes an innovative contribution to the literary-historical and genre-historical contextualization of early Christian texts through several subprojects.The project encompasses three foci: Macro-level: The Life of Aesop and Early Christian Gospels (Strong).The little comparative work done with fable materials extends also to macro-texts. Despite significant parallels with the Gospels, little attention has been paid to The Life of Aesop, which is also a marginal bios and has a similar literary-historical relationship between its many versions as the different Gospels. Between the multiple versions of a narrative biography and collections of individual fables, there is a striking parallel to Gospel writings, which attest to the same bios and collection forms. Applying the “open text” paradigm, this project will contribute to emerging debates in the Synoptic Problem, the genre(s), and transmission of the Gospels. The goal of the subproject is a monograph. Meso-level: Babrius and the New Testament (TBD – doctoral-level researcher)Babrius the fable author is essentially unknown to scholars of the ancient world, including even classicists, receiving only limited attention in the last ten years. The commonly assumed dates and location of authorship—the 1st-2nd century in Syria—together with internal data suggesting a Semitic milieu and a similar Koine to biblical Greek, demand an in-depth investigation. Babrius’ fables will be set in dialogue with early Christian texts, analyzing similar and diverging ethical norms, and several individual fables with early Christian parallels, e.g., The Fishnet (Fab. 4) cf. Mt 13:47–50 and The Body (Fab. 134) cf. 1 Cor 12. The aim of the project is a doctoral thesis (TBD) and individual articles (Zimmermann).Micro-level: Articles on individual topics within the horizon of the overall project, e.g., Ahiqar, slavery, non-violence, will be published in peer-reviewed journals or edited volumes.We apply established comparative methods, including tradition- and formgeschichte, genre criticism, and intertextuality, together with emerging approaches such as animal studies, communication-oriented genre theory, and narrative ethics. The project includes specialist workshops on genre, animal studies, and ethics.

该项目将希腊和罗马时期的寓言文学与早期基督教著作联系起来。尽管寓言文学在Jülicher的作品中被讨论过，但自20世纪初以来，在新约研究中，寓言一直被忽视。这其中的一个原因是对寓言体裁的简约主义理解(作为一个不切实际的动物故事，这并不适用于许多文本)。此外，由于历史上的耶稣经常被认为是寓言体裁的“发明者”，神学上的原因使学者们不愿将这一特殊地位相对化。该项目通过几个子项目对早期基督教文本的文学史和体裁历史语境做出了创新性的贡献。该项目包括三个焦点：宏观层面：伊索生活和早期基督教福音(STRIGN)。与寓言材料所做的比较工作很少，也延伸到宏观文本。尽管与福音书有显著的相似之处，但很少有人注意到《伊索生平》，这也是一个边缘传记，在它的许多版本之间具有类似的文学-历史关系，作为不同的福音书。在叙事性传记的多个版本和个人寓言集之间，有一个惊人的相似之处，那就是福音著作证明了相同的传记和收藏形式。应用“开放文本”范例，该项目将有助于在天气学问题、体裁(S)和福音的传播方面新出现的辩论。这个子项目的目标是一部专著。中观水平：巴布里厄斯和新约(待定-博士级别的研究人员)巴布里厄斯寓言作者基本上不为古代世界的学者所知，甚至包括古典学家，在过去的十年里只得到了有限的关注。通常假设的作者日期和地点--1-2世纪在叙利亚--加上内部数据表明，它所处的环境是闪族人，与圣经中的希腊语相似，这需要进行深入调查。巴布里厄斯的寓言将设置在与早期基督教文本的对话中，分析相似和不同的伦理规范，以及几个与早期基督教相似的个人寓言，例如渔网(Fab。4)参看太13：47-50和身体(法比书。134)比照1 COR 12.该项目的目标是一篇博士论文(待定)和个人文章(齐默尔曼)。微观层面：关于整个项目范围内的个别主题的文章，例如，阿希卡、奴隶制、非暴力，将在同行评议的期刊或编辑卷上发表。我们采用既定的比较方法，包括传统和形式、体裁批评和互文性，以及新兴的方法，如动物研究、以传播为导向的体裁理论和叙事伦理。该项目包括关于流派、动物研究和伦理的专家研讨会。