Research Projects

AGATE provides access to research information on projects of the German Academies' Programme and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. The metadata recorded for the projects can be accessed via a full-text search and faceted according to aspects such as the responsible academy, the project status and content-related aspects such as the geographical or temporal classification of the project. The full-text search allows truncation by setting an asterisk '*' in combination with at least three characters.

The list has 9 entrie(s). Displaying entries 1 to 5.

Research Project, 2015–2037

Altägyptische Kursivschriften. Digitale Paläographie und systematische Analyse des Hieratischen und der Kursivhieroglyphen

The subject of the interdisciplinary project, which combines egyptological research with methods from computer philology, consists of the ancient Egyptian scripts called Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphic script, both having been used alongside monumental hieroglyphic script for over 3000 years. The inventory of signs taken from selected texts is systematically and digitally recorded with different…

PR276

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Research Project, 2024–2038

Das Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti digital. Kommentierung des Neuen Testaments im Kontext des hellenistischen Judentums

Das Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum (CJH) umfasst die Gesamtheit der erhaltenen literarischen, nichtliterarischen sowie materialen Zeugnisse des frühen (vor-rabbinischen) Judentums (einschließlich der Qumranfunde), wie es sich unter den Bedingungen der hellenistisch-römischen Welt zwischen ca. 300 v. Chr. und 200 n. Chr. entwickelt hat. Ziel des Projektes ist die vollständige Erfassung, digitale…

PR807

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Research Project, 2012–2029

Forschungskontinuität und Kontinuitätsforschung. Siedlungsarchäologische Grundlagenforschung zur Eisenzeit im Baltikum

The reciprocal word pair “Forschungskontinuität und Kontinuitätsforschung” (continuity of research and research of continuity) in the project-title outlines the significant difficulties and opportunities of the traditional, but not unproblematic history of the archaeological sciences in landscapes, that are very rich in findings and important for the development of northern and eastern Europe.…

PR61

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Research Project, 2008–2030

Novum Testamentum Graecum. Editio Critica Maior

Texts from the New Testament are preserved in their Greek original language in approx. 5500 manuscripts. It can be assumed that actually no copy is identical with another. Thus, the most important task of the text research of the New Testament is the reconstruction of the text form, which was the starting point for the transmission.

So far, the science had to use “Große Ausgaben” (big editions)…

PR119

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Research Project, 2013–2038

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus. Edition and study of the Arabic and Latin versions of Ptolemy’s astronomical and astrological works and related material

Until the 17th century, the astronomical and astrological works of Claudius Ptolemaeus (2nd century CE) were central source texts for the scientific understanding of the world of Arabic-Islamic and Latin-Christian cultures. The project studies the Arabic and Latin versions of Ptolemy’s major works, the Almagest and the Tetrabiblos, the minor works and pseudepigrapha, as well as the extensive…

PR60

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