Early Modern Musar
Congratulations
24 November 2023
Photo: DFG
We congratulate Dr. Ilaria Briata, who has been awarded an Individual Research Grant by the German Research Foundation for the project "Horror and Literary Manifestations of Fear in Early Modern Judaism."
The project, to be carried out at the Institute of Jewish Philosophy and Religion for three year, intends to initiate an original investigation on literary renderings and enactments of the emotional state of fear in early modern Judaism. The investigation will provide the groundwork for the establishment of ‘Jewish horror’ as an academic field, by introducing three case studies: (a) Idealizations of Fear in Religious Thought; (b) Narratives on the Demonic; (c) Verses on Death and the Otherworld. The enquiry will involve a selected pool of Hebrew texts produced between late-16th and mid-18thcentury, addressing horror motifs via different genres, i.e., musar (psychagogic literature), narrative, and poetry.
DFG Individual Research Grants enable individuals who have completed their academic training to conduct at any time research projects with clearly defined topics and durations, regardless of the subject. For further information, click here.