Scriptural Exegesis and Religious Polemics in Syriac Texts in Late Antiquity (B04)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2015 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 244798977

The sub-project investigates possible interrelations between biblical exegesis (Ephrem the Syrian, Theodore of Mopsuestia) and anti-Jewish polemics (Aphrahat, Isaac of Antioch, Nar-sai and others) mainly in the East Syriac Christian literature (4th-6th centuries). Moreover, it deals with the relevance of these two text categories for Christian polemics in Syriac against Islam in 7th-8th century (especially in Theodore bar Konai as well as in anti-Islamic apoca-lypses, apologies, and historiographical writings).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1136: Education and Religion in Cultures of the Mediterranean and Its Environment from Ancient to Medieval Times and to the Classical Islam
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Privatdozent Dr. Dmitrij Bumazhnov