Klein Cardoso, Silas (23 November 2021). The historical shift of the Fribourg School in social-material perspective (Unpublished). In: SBL Annual Meeting / ANE Iconography and the Bible. San Antonio, TX. 2021.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)One can see a clear change of focus in the so-called Fribourg School's works from biblical interpretation towards history (of 'Ancient Israel' and its religion) in the early 1990s. Whereas some authors described the rerouting from a genealogical perspective and on conceptual grounds, this paper revisits the shift using a social-material lens. Assuming that tools alter epistemic practices and that visual expressions produce and embody information, this contribution focuses on the corpora built by the group, aiming to describe the cognitive and disciplinary implications of the cataloging system adopted. As visual knowledge tools, the roughly 10.000 index cards housed at Fribourg's Department of Biblical Studies helped to analyze, translate and decompose the visual artifacts into archaeological/historical data in the form of textual descriptions. In terms of media theory, this process implies the translation of structural (from non-linear to linear), cognitive (from synthetical to consecutive), and syntactical (from dense to non-dense) features. I shall argue that the cards constituting the Fribourg team's primary working tool were not just central methodologically, they also supported the group's conceptual transition. The paper thus addresses an important issue in and for Digital Humanities, namely the conceptual role of knowledge tools in scholarship interpreting the past.
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01 Faculty of Theology > Other Institutions > Office of the Dean, Faculty of Theology 01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Testament Studies > Institute of Old Testament Studies - Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures > Literature and Theology of the Old Testament 01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Testament Studies > Literature and Theology of the Old Testament |
UniBE Contributor: |
Klein Cardoso, Silas |
Subjects: |
200 Religion 200 Religion > 220 The Bible |
Funders: |
[4] Swiss National Science Foundation |
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[UNSPECIFIED] SNFS Sinergia Project: Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant – A multi-faceted prism for studying entangled histories in an interdisciplinary perspective (CRSII5_186426) |
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English |
Submitter: |
Silas Klein Cardoso |
Date Deposited: |
18 Oct 2022 14:06 |
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05 Dec 2022 16:26 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/173799 |
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