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Description (abstract)
CSTT aims at a more comprehensive understanding of the emergence and influence of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (HB) within the multicultural milieu of the ancient Near East. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, ideological, and material changes in the period when the sacred traditions of the HB were created, transmitted, and continuously transformed. The nature of the changes to be investigated involves two levels. (1) The types of changes taking place in TEXTUAL scribal work, testified by manuscript evidence. CSTT focuses on the composition and development of sacred texts in early Judaism: their writing, copying and editing, their rewriting and authorization. (2) SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS changes in the ancient Near East, testified by material culture as well as texts. Texts can be viewed as both products and promoters of changes in society and religion.
These changes, pre- and postdating the emergence of the HB writings are examined from the point of view of archaeology, sociology, and history of religion. The four research teams of CSTT gather around a mutual interdisciplinary interest in texts that eventually became part of the HB as well as texts that remained outside the biblical canon; the Septuagint as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls; relevant ancient Near Eastern texts, especially from Mesopotamia, and archaeological evidence. The major innovations of CSTT are that it cross-fertilizes fields of study that have drifted apart from each other in the course of the scholarly development, and investigates the biblical texts in the light of new source materials.
Acronym | CSTT |
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Status | Finished |
Effective start/end date | 01/01/2014 → 31/12/2019 |
Funding
- Academy of Finland
Fields of Science
- 614 Theology
- 615 History and Archaeology
Projects
- 7 Finished
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Religious Responses to Climate Change in the Southern Levant: Understanding the rise and fall of Jewish ritual purification baths in the Hasmonean-Roman period
Bonnie, R., Kautonen, S. K. & Aarnio, N. M.
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, University of Helsinki
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project
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Conceptions of Virtue in Early Judaism
Uusimäki, E., Rafael, A. & Yli-Karjanmaa, S.
01/12/2018 → 31/12/2020
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project
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Are the Concepts of “Torah” and “the Prophets” Texts or Something Else? Educational, Media, and Elite Contexts from the Persian Empire Onwards
Silverman, J. M., Mar 2022, Scriptures in the Making : Texts and Their Transmission in Late Second Temple Judaism. Hakola, R., Orpana, J. & Huotari, P. (eds.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 3–32 30 p. (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology Publisher ; vol. 109).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Josephus’ Sources and Motivations in Depicting Davidic Kingship
Kauhanen, T., 2022, Scriptures in the Making: Texts and Their Transmission in Late Second Temple Judaism. Hakola, R., Orpana, J. & Huotari, P. (eds.). Leuven: Peeters, (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology; vol. 109).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Monumentality and Space: Experiencing Synagogue Buildings in Late Second Temple Palestine
Bonnie, R. G. L. M., 22 Apr 2022, Scriptures in the Making: Texts and Their Transmission in Late Second Temple Judaism. Hakola, R., Orpana, J. & Huotari, P. (eds.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 111–145 35 p. (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology; vol. 109).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Datasets
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Fear in Akkadian Texts
Svärd, S. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 2020
Dataset
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Aššur and His Friends: A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts
Alstola, T. (Creator), Zaia, S. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Svärd, S. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019
Dataset
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Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Korp Version, May 2019
Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator) & Alstola, T. (Creator), Kielipankki, Jun 2019
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2019060602
Dataset
Activities
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Kaige Characteristics as a Control for Characterizing the Greek Translation of Jeremiah
Miika Tucker (Speaker)
21 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Neo Assyrian victory celebrations: a spectacle for the people
Sebastian Fink (Speaker)
31 Jan 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Response in panel Editorial Techniques in the Hebrew Bible in the Light of Empirical Evidence: MT, LXX and Old Latin Variants in the Book of Kings
Tuukka Kauhanen (Speaker)
13 Aug 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
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Babylon – synnin, paheiden ja Hammurabin kaupunki
16/01/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Tyhjenikö amme?
Rick Bonnie, Elisabeth Holmqvist-Sipilä & Paula Kouki
01/04/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media