Temporality and Identity in the Jewish Sibylline Oracles

西比林神谕是犹太人（和基督教）预言的六格语料库，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一种特别丰富的文学表达。我的中心方法将是比较和文化：这意味着什么“希腊化”的犹太人之间的犹太，希腊和罗马时间话语谈判？有没有一个独特的“希腊犹太文学的时间性”？我将通过将时间性视为身份和意识形态的表达，为关于犹太人和“希腊化”1的日益微妙的辩论做出贡献。我的项目将扩大最近学术界对古典文学中时间性的正式接受，分析神谕而不是叙事。（尤其是史诗），文化上，超越最近的焦点晚-古代的时间性及其基督教背景。最近关于西比林神谕的学术热潮仍然集中在小的选择上，通过以时间性为中心，我的项目广泛地涉及整个犹太神谕集（第3-5卷，第8.1-216卷，第11-14卷）。一个连贯的时间性理论是否将语料库的不同方面统一起来（例如，互文性，宗教末世论）？语料库如何在发展过程中调整其时间语篇？基本上，我的研究将比较神谕的时间性，他们的直接文学模式（神谕，六步诗，犹太预言）。我还将在更广泛的话语框架内语境化神谕：希腊罗马文学预言犹太文学的时间性政治/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学位，并开始通过牛津大学的暑期学校学习圣经希伯来语。剑桥是唯一一个对我的项目有很好的安排的地方。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（Tim Whitmarsh）、西蒙·戈德希尔（Simon Goldhill））和一个从事希腊犹太材料的大型社区（蒂姆·惠特马什（Tim Whitmarsh）、西蒙·戈德希尔（Simon Goldhill）、海伦·范·货车·诺登（Helen Van Noorden）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.).