Doctoral and Post-doctoral Opportunities in Leuven

Good news out of Belgium: 

KU Leuven, Belgium, offers 2 full-time post-doctoral and 3 PhD positions for suitably qualified candidates to form part of the research team of the Leuven Multilingual Manuscript Research Centre (LEMMA).

Further information about each position and application details can be obtained through the following links. The deadline for applications is 7th May 2024.

3 positions on the European Research Council (Horizon Europe) funded ERC-2021-COG BICROSS project (www.bicross.eu) to investigate the significance of bilingual manuscripts for detecting cross-language interaction in the New Testament Tradition. The interdisciplinary project studies bilingual New Testament manuscripts from the 4th century to the 15th century.

• Postdoctoral Position (Greek/Coptic/Arabic): https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60318899
• Postdoctoral Position (Western Text): https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60318937
• PhD Position: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60318939

2 positions on the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) funded Odysseus (Type I) 1COR project (www.1cor.net) to investigate the text, transmission and translation of 1 Corinthians in the first millennium. The project’s main goal is to produce full scholarly editions and textual analyses of 1 Corinthians with a multilingual perspective.

• 2 PhD Positions: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60318941

Please feel free to circulate this information widely and to alert colleagues and students who you think may be interested and suited. Informal enquiries may be addressed to christina.kreinecker@kuleuven.be

Funded Postdoc on Apocrypha at UOslo

Although Coptic flourished during the Roman period in Coptic monasteries and in the broader setting of the early Christian movement, the language did not function as a compositional medium until the sixth century, after which a variety of truly Coptic literature (which survives today both extant and often untranslated) appeared. Hugo Lundhaug‘s Storyworlds in Transition ERC project will engage with this extensive corpus of Coptic Apocrypha as well as earlier texts such as those from the Nag Hammadi discovery. The project is advertising a postdoctoral position with a generous stipend ($60K/year). The position would start 01 Aug 2020.

The postdoc is expected to work in close collaboration with the PI of the APOCRYPHA project to locate and systematically analyze with regard to the material features all Coptic manuscripts containing apocryphal materials, and to study from the perspective of Material Philology the production and transmission of Coptic apocrypha. Material Philology is here understood on the one hand as an approach that takes the fluidity of textual transmission in a manuscript culture fully into consideration, studying its causes, mechanisms, and effects; and on the other it entails an in-depth focus on the material artifacts constituted by the extant manuscripts.

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Titles of the New Testament Postdoc in Dublin

Dublin

Garrick Allen of Dublin City University has just received funding for a 3-year postdoc to work on a project on manuscript titles. Titles are a very interesting but often neglected part of manuscripts (for example). I bet this project will be a fun one to work on. And Dublin is a great city. I’m tempted to apply myself!

The Project 

The Titles of the New Testament: A New Approach to Manuscripts and the History of Interpretation (TiNT) project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 847428). The project seeks to digitally edit every form of every title in every non-lectionary Greek manuscript that preserves part of the New Testament, using this data to contribute to new research related to six research questions: (1) the diachronic development of paratextual traditions; (2) the provenance of New Testament works; (3) the relationship between bibliography and canon; (4) the design and artistic features of manuscripts; (5) scribal identities; and (6) traditions of textual segmentation. The data produced by the project will also raise new research questions and be publicly available. The objectives of the project are to rethink the critical value of manuscripts beyond the purely textual concerns of traditional textual criticism and to explore titular traditions as expressive modes of communication and as aspects of reception history. The Principle Investigator (PI) and team members will work together to produce titular profiles for each manuscript, using this information to inform innovative research on specific research topics. 

Minimum Criteria 

Applicants should have a PhD in a discipline relevant to the project, like New Testament studies, classics, early Christianity, Byzantine studies, art history or manuscripts studies. Excellent knowledge of Koine Greek is essential, and familiarity with other relevant languages (esp. Latin) is ideal. Basic computer competence is required and familiarity and experience with digital editorial or philological tools is expected. Etc.

Closing date

1st December 2019

Make sure to read the full description as there is important info I haven’t included here.

Postdoc in Lausanne on Mark 16

A 4 year postdoctoral position is being advertised in Lausanne to work on the new project there on Mark 16 led by Claire Clivaz. Further details are here. It is a digital humanities post and is located in the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (which obviously interprets its remit broadly!).