SubsidieMeestersThe Significance of Bilingual Manuscripts for Detecting Cross-Language Interaction in the New Testament Tradition
BICROSS pioneers a multilingual approach to New Testament manuscript studies, utilizing digital tools to uncover cross-language interactions and enhance understanding of textual transmission and cultural exchange.
Projectdetails
Introduction
BICROSS is an interdisciplinary project linking Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Gothic, Armenian, and Arabic philology, New Testament textual criticism, manuscript studies, ancient history, and digital humanities.
Background
Little is known about the bilingual New Testament manuscripts, although translations occur remarkably early. Their physical and textual characteristics, relations, tendencies, and impact remain understudied despite their centrality to the understanding of the transmission of the New Testament and its reception in different cultures.
For centuries, New Testament manuscripts have been studied from a monolingual perspective, which has obscured the fact that the textual transmission did not take place solely within the boundaries of a single-language tradition but also across languages. Uncovering and establishing the mutual exchange and cross-language interaction require a new multilingual approach to the New Testament tradition.
Objectives
BICROSS breaks through the current monolingual limitation by shifting the discipline’s focus to the overall New Testament tradition. Accepting the possibility that each variant reading could have had its potential source in a reading from a different language tradition and may likewise have caused a dependent reading in any of the other language traditions breaks new ground.
The project’s bold and pioneering cross-language approach brings a fresh perspective to the discipline’s current search for new paradigmatic concepts to explain the relations of New Testament readings and manuscripts at large.
Methodology
BICROSS develops specific digital tools to process the vast and linguistically complicated manuscript data in order to pioneer an examination of the entire New Testament bilingual tradition on a larger scale than has ever been possible.
Expected Outcomes
The results will provide new insights into the formation and transmission of New Testament texts and will influence the understanding of historical, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the East and West.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 2.000.000 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 2.000.000 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-10-2022 |
| Einddatum | 30-9-2027 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVENpenvoerder
Land(en)
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