Transfer of Apocryphal Knowledge through Translation in Ancient Christianity (and Judaism) (C01)

• Subject Area: Protestant Theology
• Term: from 2012 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191249397

The project focuses on processes of translation as central techniques of knowledge transfer. The project will examine the transfer and transformation of knowledge in (late) antique translations of apocryphal texts, especially from Greek into Coptic, as it can be observed in finds from the library of Nag Hammadi/Chenoboskion, on the one hand, and the transfer from Greek Christian into Hebrew-Aramaic Jewish Bible commentaries (and back into the source context), on the other. Understanding such processes as forms of negotiation can help to describe impulses and changes of mode more precisely.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 980: Episteme in Motion - Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Co-Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Christoph Markschies