Local Self-governance in Judea in the second century BCE: Historical and Literary Perspectives

这个子项目涉及公元前2世纪围绕邪教和犹太生活方式的大规模冲突。当地精英的个别群体通过他们在社会文化基础方面的创新和试图更新传统生活方式而引发了这些问题。当时，朱迪亚是统治塞琉西帝国的一部分，该帝国在不同国家职能下的监管深度有限。关于塞琉西帝国的宪法和内部运作的经典研究领域的最新研究，到目前为止还几乎没有被纳入圣经研究领域，这将有助于分析国王作为对最低(地方)政府的新的自治形式斗争的一部分的看似威权的干预。现有的最古老的资料是马卡比第一和第二书。在两个案例研究中，这些都被用叙事学的方法来考察，以捕捉他们自己的自我理解、他们的叙事视角和他们的意图。这两本书基于不同的概念，代表了独立的叙事，将事件描述为当地行为者的大规模和非法干预，但也有塞琉西帝国的干预。第一本和第二本《马卡比书》的描述都是高度受视角限制的，它们将地方形式的自治描述为产生身份的自我故事，这样行为者要么被合法化，要么被非合法化，从而产生事后叙事的连贯性和规范性。该分项目还旨在进一步发展叙事学的理论框架，以便将叙事学分析和历史批评方法更紧密地结合在一起。平行的案例研究将在一次具有历史批判性的讲座中进行比较评估和历史考察。将主要从耶路撒冷的组织和体制发展的角度出发，审查受视角限制的文学表现形式与历史重建之间的紧张和差异。研究小组的研究设计将使人们有可能确定公元前2世纪发展过程中的治理领域、涉及的行为者和限制过程以及治理的形式和与中央权力的关系，从而促进对这些事件作为古代犹太教发展的决定性时刻的认识。“地区问题”--也是，尤其是在公元前2世纪的犹太。

This subproject deals with the massive conflicts surrounding the cult and the way of life in Judea in the 2nd century BC. Individual groups of the local elite triggered these through their innovations with regard to the socio-cultural foundations and through their attempt to update traditional ways of life. At that time, Judea was part of the ruling Seleucid Empire, which was limited in its depth of regulation along different state functions. Recent research in the field of Classical Studies on the constitution and internal functioning of the Seleucid Empire, which has so far hardly been incorporated into the field of Biblical Studies, will help to analyze the seemingly authoritarian interventions on the part of the king as part of the struggle over new forms of self-governance at the lowest (local) level of government.The oldest sources available are the First and Second Book of Maccabees. These are examined narratologically in two case studies in order to capture their own self-understanding, their narrative perspective and their intention. The two books are based on different concepts and represent independent narratives that describe the events as massive and illegitimate interventions by local actors, but also by the Seleucid Empire. The depictions of the First and Second Book of Maccabees, which are both highly perspective-bound, narrate the local forms of self-governance as identity-generating stories of self in such a way that actors are either legitimized or delegitimized and thus generate ex post narrative coherence and normativity. The subproject also aims at further developing the theoretical framework of narratology in order to combine narratological analyses and historical-critical approaches more closely than has previously been done. The parallel case studies will be evaluated comparatively and examined historically in a historical-critical relecture. Tensions and differences between the perspective-bound literary representations and the historical reconstruction will be examined primarily with a view to the organization and institutional developments in Jerusalem. The research design of the research group will make it possible to determine the areas of governance, the involved actors and processes of limination as well as the forms of governance and the relationship to the central power in the course of the developments of the 2nd century B.C., and to thus foster an appreciation for the events as decisive moments in the development of Judaism in antiquity. “Locality matters” – also and especially in Judea of the 2nd century B.C.