Sibyls & Prophets. Constellations of Figural Knowledge in Premodernity (B08*)

该项目审查了知识转让和转化的结构条件，这在古代-异教兄弟姐妹与圣经先知配对的文化实践中可以看到，因为这种做法自远古以来就发生了。该项目特别注意这些配对引起注意的多种知识模式，特别关注各种知识形式的中间形式和物质形式。它调查了这些文化上强大的人物是如何配对产生一系列的认知归属、语义编码和跨文化分配的。将特别注意西比勒和先知之间的相遇导致不连续的时间性的复杂纠缠--例如，异教时间与基督教末世论--以及在两组不同但密切相关的数字之间创造语义重叠的方式。

The project examines the structural conditions for the transfer and transformation of knowledge that can be witnessed in the cultural practice of pairing antique-pagan sibyls with biblical prophets, as it has occurred since late antiquity. The project pays particular attention to the plurality of modes of knowledge to which these pairings draw attention, with a special focus on the medial and material forms in which the respective forms of knowledge are staged. It investigates how the pairing of these culturally powerful figures generates a whole range of epistemic ascriptions, semantic encodings and transcultural appropriations. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which the encounters between sibyls and prophets result in complex entanglements of discontinuous temporalities – e. g. pagan time vs. Christian eschatology – and in the creation of semantic overlaps between the two different and yet intimately related sets of figures.