Temporality and Identity in the Jewish Sibylline Oracles

西比林神谕是犹太（和基督教）预言的六体语料库，从希腊化时期到古代晚期组成和（重新）编辑。他们的文化混杂性使他们成为犹太人身份的特别丰富的文学表达。我建议考察犹太语料库的时间性——它对时间的建构。我的中心方法将是比较和文化：对于“希腊化”的犹太人来说，在犹太人、希腊人和罗马人的世俗话语之间进行谈判意味着什么？是否存在一种独特的“希腊-犹太文学时间性”？我将通过将时间性视为身份和意识形态的一种表达，为关于犹太人和“希腊化”的日益微妙的辩论做出贡献。我的项目将扩大最近的学术对古典文学中时间性的拥抱，无论是在形式上，分析神谕而不是叙事（尤其是史诗），还是在文化上，超越最近对晚期古代时间性及其基督教背景的关注。最近兴起的关于西比林神谕的学术研究仍然集中在语料库的小选集和个别主题上。通过以时间为中心，我的项目广泛地涉及整个犹太神谕集（书3-5、8.1-216、11-14）。一个连贯的时间性理论是否能统一语料库的不同方面（例如，互文性，宗教末世论）？语料库在发展过程中如何适应其时间话语？从根本上说，我的研究将把神谕的时间性与其直接的文学模式（神谕、六韵诗、犹太预言）进行比较。我还将把神谕置于更广泛的话语框架中：希腊罗马文学预言犹太文学的时代性政治/意识形态的时间结构；希腊-犹太文学中的身份。为了准备这个博士学位，我围绕希腊犹太文学和更广泛的身份理论框架设计了我的哲学硕士课程，并开始通过牛津大学的暑期学校学习圣经希伯来语。剑桥非常适合我的项目。关于我的身份和时间性的关键框架，有令人兴奋的学术研究（例如，蒂姆·惠特马什，西蒙·戈德希尔），还有一个从事希腊-犹太材料的大型社区（蒂姆·惠特马什，西蒙·戈德希尔，海伦·范诺登等）。

The Sibylline Oracles are a hexametric corpus of Jewish (and Christian) prophecies, composed and (re-)edited from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. Their cultural hybridity makes them a particularly rich literary expression of Jewish identity.I propose to examine the Jewish corpus' temporality-its construction of time. My central approach will be comparative and cultural: what does it mean for 'Hellenised' Jews to negotiate between Jewish, Greek, and Roman temporal discourses? Is there a distinct 'Greco-Jewish literary temporality'? I shall contribute to increasingly nuanced debates about Jews and 'Hellenisation' 1 by viewing temporality as an expression of identity and ideology My project will widen recent scholarship's embrace of temporality in classical literature both formally, analysing oracles rather than narrative (especially epic), and culturally, going beyond recent focuses on Late-Antique temporality and its Christian background.The recent boom in scholarship on the Sibylline Oracles still focuses on small selections5 and individual themes of the corpus By centring temporality, my project engages expansively with the entire collection of Jewish Oracles (Books 3-5, 8.1-216, 11-14). Does a coherent theory of temporality unite different aspects of the corpus (e.g., intertextuality, religious eschatology)? How does the corpus adapt its temporal discourses as it develops?Fundamentally, my research will compare the Oracles' temporality to their direct literary models (oracles, hexameter poetry, Jewish prophecy). I shall also contextualise the Oracles within wider discursive frameworks: Greco-Roman literary prophecy Jewish literature's temporality political/ideological constructions of time; identity in Greco-Jewish literature.To prepare for this PhD, I designed my MPhil around Greco-Jewish literature and wider theoretical frameworks of identity, and have begun learning Biblical Hebrew through a summer school at Oxford. Cambridge is uniquely well disposed for my project. There is exciting scholarship on my key frameworks of identity and temporality (e.g., Tim Whitmarsh, Simon Goldhill) and a large community engaged in Greco-Jewish material (Tim Whitmarsh, Simon Goldhill, Helen Van Noorden, etc.).