22/05/2024 08:30 - 16:30

HALL: FATESI - MAUROLICO A

Proponent: Mambelli A.

Chair: Scialabba D.

Speaker: Abram S., Arcari L., Bigoni L., Bons E., Carnevale L., Costa M., Dainese D., Mambelli A., Palillo C., Rotondo A., Sampò G., Scatigno G., Scialabba D., Tutrone F., Zanella M.

The Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (HTLS), Resilient Septuagint, and uBIQUity are transdisciplinary research projects linked by common methodologies and aims. HTLS is a multi-volume dictionary (4 vols., Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2020-) that explores meanings, usages, and possible semantic evolutions of the most significant terms or word groups attested in the Septuagint Bible, from Classical Greek to early Christian literature. Two years ago, the HTLS idea and methodology gave birth to two innovative projects, and this panel aims at keeping all these branches together for the very first time. Resilient Septuagint, an Italian Research Project of Relevant National Interest (PRIN 2022), focuses on the semantics of "killing" and "healing" in the Septuagint (Qo/Eccl 3:3) and its reception in Patristic and Late Antique sources (3rd cent. BCE - 5th cent. CE). uBIQUity, which incorporates the "BI" of the Bible(s) and the "QU" of the Qur'an in its title and is part of the larger PNRR project ITSERR - Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU (CUP: B53C22001770006), aims at investigating the sacred texts of the Abrahamic religions and their heritages in different environments and historical periods through two huge corpora: Christian commentaries on the Bible(s) written from the Patristic age until the Late Byzantine period, both in Greek and Latin, and classical commentaries on the Qur'an written in Arabic (tafasir) from the rise of Islam until the 15th century. In terms of Digital Humanities, uBIQUity aims to develop and provide the scientific community of Religious Studies with a new research tool that can identify, with a higher degree of accuracy than pre-existing resources, quotations/allusions to the Bible(s) and the Qur'an in Christian and Islamic commentaries. Intertextual references, whether consciously or unconsciously made by ancient commentators, work as invisible "places of memory", thus making the sacred texts "ubiquitous". For the development of this semantic search engine, uBIQUity closely cooperates with Resilient Septuagint for the Greek Bible(s) and Patristic section and includes an investigation into new strategies of Data Visualization and Interaction Design to generate new knowledge through the consultation, archiving, and use of data in the Digital Humanities.