Do not miss our event!!! 7-8 December online from the University of Basel.
https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-1/papyri-conference/
Do not miss our event!!! 7-8 December online from the University of Basel.
https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-1/papyri-conference/
Online Conference 7-8 December 2023 – from Basel University
organized from Basel by Claire Clivaz (DH+, SIB, CH and RSCS, UCL, BE) and Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Basel, CH)
Program: https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-1/papyri-conference/
Argument: This online conference will analyze how digital culture has changed the perceptions of writing styles in papyri. Studies conducted by modern scholars have always been the main way of evaluating papyri, determining their dates and content. From the beginning of the century, the clearly subjective nature of this research has been highlighted by scholars such as Kim Haines-Eitzen in Guardians of Letters (2000) and Brent Nongbri in God’s Library (2018).
We will evaluate the current ways scholars view the aesthetics of papyri in a world where close and distant readings are intersecting more every day. A large part of ancient scholarship successfully used the traditional close read, whereas today, a small group of newer scholars have integrated computer analysis into their research. The following questions will be addressed: To what extent is computer analysis of quantitative data bringing objectivity into the study of writing styles in papyri? What are the potential limits or biases of computer analysis? Does this confirm insights from the past, or to the contrary, does this change our evaluation of dates, content, and genre implications within papyri studies? We will review these questions considering the various fields currently working with papyri in different languages. Papers of the conference will be proposed to the OJS journal Pylon. Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts.
Claire Clivaz presents with Rita Gautschy (DaSCH Director) a poster at the IDW 2023 week in Salzburg: “Humanities and Open Science. Austrian Data on DaSCH and SSHOC”.
The abstract is available here: https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2023-Salzburg/sessions/473/poster/278/
Thrilling news! Photocopies of eight folios of the Historia Passionis Domini, studied by Bernhard Bischoff and quoted by Kurt Aland in his New Testament Synopsis (p. 585) have been put online on the 7.10.23 by the MGH- Archive (München): MGH-Archiv K 195/19 n°6 (https://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/archiv/k/K_00195_19.htm)
This hyperlink is quoted on p. 312 in this forthcoming article: C. Clivaz, “Luke 22:43-44 and the Judeo-Christians”, REJ 182 (2023/3-4), p. 283-317.
One can now have access to images of f. 34v-36r, 54v-55r, 69v-70r, hoping that one day, the manuscript itself will be available again.