@techreport{PfeilschifterLauthFischeretal.2020, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Pfeilschifter, Rene and Lauth, Hans-Joachim and Fischer, Doris and Rothfuß, Eberhard and Schachner, Andreas and Schmitz, Barbara and Werthmann, Katja}, title = {Local Self-Governance in the Context of Weak Statehood in Antiquity and the Modern Era. A Program for a Fresh Perspective}, edition = {English Edition}, issn = {2698-2684}, doi = {10.25972/OPUS-20737}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-207371}, pages = {34}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The nucleus of statehood is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community, beyond the level of the family, first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. But usually this is not the only level of governance at play. Above it, there are supralocal formations of power, varying in scope from regional networks to empires, which supplement the local orders or compete with them. The premise of this Research Unit is that local forms of self-governance are especially heterogeneous and prominent, wherever supralocal statehood exists in the mode of weak permeation. The central question of our approach is how local forms of self-governance work in this context. We will examine the relations to the state level as well as to other local groups as they develop over time; the scope and spatial contingency of forms of self-governance; their legitimization and the interdependency with the organization and collective identity of those groups which carry them out; finally, we will turn our attention to the significance of self-governance for the configuration of weak statehood. The empirical focus will be at the local level, which has so far been largely neglected in the research on governance beyond the state. In order to achieve this, we will work with case studies that are structured by categories and situated in geographical areas and time periods that lie outside of modern Europe with its particular development of statehood since the Late Middle Ages: in Antiquity, and in the Global South of the present. By incorporating these different time frames, we hope to contribute to overcoming the dichotomy between the modern and pre-modern era, which is often given canonical status. Our goal is to create a comparative analysis of different configurations of order as well as the development of a typology of patterns of local governance. The structure of the empirical comparison itself promises methodological insights, since it will entail recognizing, dealing with, and overcoming disciplinary limitations. Starting with the identification of typical patterns and processes, we hope to gain a better grasp of the mechanisms by which local configurations of order succeed, while at the same time advancing the theoretical debate. This will allow us to make an interdisciplinary contribution to the understanding of fundamental elements of statehood and local governance that are of central importance, especially in the context of weak statehood. The insights we hope to gain by adopting this historical perspective will contribute to understanding a present that is not based exclusively on its own, seemingly completely new preconditions, and will thus significantly sharpen the political analysis of various forms of governance.}, subject = {Begrenzte Staatlichkeit}, language = {en} } @incollection{Schmitz2009, author = {Schmitz, Barbara}, title = {Casting Judith. The construction of role patterns in the book of Judith}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-67088}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2009}, abstract = {No abstract available}, subject = {Judit }, language = {en} } @incollection{Schmitz2009, author = {Schmitz, Barbara}, title = {Auferstehung und Epiphanie. Jenseits- und K{\"o}rperkonzepte im Zweiten Makkab{\"a}erbuch}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-67078}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2009}, abstract = {No abstract available}, subject = {Makkab{\"a}er }, language = {de} } @inproceedings{Schmitz2010, author = {Schmitz, Barbara}, title = {War, violence and Tyrannicide in the Book of Judith}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-67058}, year = {2010}, abstract = {No abstract available}, subject = {Judit }, language = {en} } @incollection{Schmitz2010, author = {Schmitz, Barbara}, title = {Holofernes's Canopy in the Septuagint}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-67065}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2010}, abstract = {No abstract available}, subject = {Holofernes}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{Schmitz2010, author = {Schmitz, Barbara}, title = {Geschaffen aus dem Nichts? Die Funktion der Rede von der Sch{\"o}pfung im Zweiten Makkab{\"a}erbuch}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-67038}, year = {2010}, abstract = {No abstract available}, subject = {Makkab{\"a}er }, language = {de} } @incollection{Schmitz2012, author = {Schmitz, Barbara}, title = {" ... der Schuld, Vergehen und S{\"u}nde vergibt" (Ex 34,7): S{\"u}nde und Schuld in der Hebr{\"a}ischen Bibel}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-109698}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2012}, abstract = {No abstract available.}, language = {de} } @incollection{Schmitz2016, author = {Schmitz, Barbara}, title = {"...using different names, as Zeus and Dis" (Arist 16). Concepts of "God" in the letter of Aristeas}, series = {Die Septuaginta - Orte und Intentionen}, booktitle = {Die Septuaginta - Orte und Intentionen}, editor = {Kreuzer, Siegfried and Meiser, Martin and Sigismund, Marcus}, publisher = {Mohr Siebeck}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-137671}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, pages = {703 -- 716}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The "Letter of Aristeas" recounts the translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Probably originating in the 2nd century BCE1, the book tells a legend of how the translation of the Torah into Greek came into being. This shows that translating a holy, canonical text or the first time needed explication. Notably, the translation of the godly nomos (Arist 3) comparatively takes up little space (Arist 301-307). And it has to be noted, that "God" is seldom a topic in the Book of Aristeas. The word (ὁ) θεός "God" is found in only three contexts: in the dialogue between king Ptolemaios and Aristeas (Arist 15-21), in the dialogue of the high priest Eleazar and Aristeas (Arist 121-171; above all 128; 130-141; 155-166; 168) and in the question-and-answer-speech during the symposium at the Ptolemaic royal court between the king and the Jewish scholars (Arist 184-294). In analysing the different statements regarding God, the frame of the narrative is of decisive importance: In the Book of Aristeas, "Aristeas" (Ἀριστέας), who writes in Greek, presents himself as the author, but he is also part of the story. Accordingly, Aristeas is the narrator, who tells the story from his own point of view, and at the same time, he is a character in the 'world' of the text. This Aristeas presents himself as a Greek and a Non-Jew (Arist 16; 121-171), who already wrote a book (Arist 6) and plans further publications (Arist 322). In the double-role as narrator of the text and protagonist in the text, Aristeas has to be differentiated from the (real) writer/author of the Book of Aristeas, who possibly was Jewish. That means that the (real, probably Jewish) author of the Book of Aristeas presents (or invents) "Aristeas" and gives him the role of the narrator of his text.3 The author portrays Aristeas as a Greek, non-Jewish character, who is a servant of the royal court. This differentiation between narrator and writer/author is of crucial importance for the question of the different conceptions of God in the Book of Aristeas.}, subject = {Gott}, language = {en} }