Leverhulme Trust
Research project grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Patrick Mesquida
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £107,268
Are collagen fibrils ladders for cells?
- Award winner: Svetlana Makovets
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £174,381
Proteolysis-dependent regulation of telomerase catalytic subunit
- Award winner: David Procter
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £163,225
Asymmetric copper-catalysed multi-component assembly of high-value amines
- Award winner: Shengfu Yang
- Institution: University of Leicester
- Value: £137,884
Investigation of combustion chemistry using superfluid helium nanodroplets
Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Award winner: Stephanie Pitts
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: £342,832
Understanding audiences for the contemporary arts
- Award winner: Philip Schwyzer
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: £633,984
Inventor of Britain: the complete works of Humphrey Llwyd
- Award winner: Julia Stapleton
- Institution: Durham University
- Value: £705,478
Church, state, and nation: the journals of Herbert Hensley Henson, 1900-39
- Award winner: Catrin Huber
- Institution: Newcastle University
- Value: £279,795
Expanded interiors: bringing contemporary site-specific fine art practice to Roman houses at Herculaneum and Pompeii
Natural Environment Research Council
- Award winner: William McCaffrey
- Institution: University of Leeds
- Value: £100,283
Database technology for deep marine clastic characterisation: upscaling for impact
- Award winner: Robbie Girling
- Institution: University of Reading
- Value: £501,019
Degradation of odour signals by air pollution: chemical mechanisms, plume dynamics and insect-orientation behaviour (DOMINO)
- Award winner: David Large
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £234,546
InSAR (interferometric synthetic aperture radar) as a tool to evaluate peatland sensitivity to global change
In detail
Award winner: Hector Patmore
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £200,452
Demonic exegesis: the role of biblical interpretation and exegetical encounter in the shaping of Jewish and Christian demonologies
Judaism had developed an extensive set of beliefs about demons by the end of the rabbinic period (AD70-c.500). Literature from this era connected these beliefs to specific writings from the Hebrew Scriptures. However, in their original historical contexts, few of these biblical texts have anything to do with demons. So how, and why, did the religious texts come to be understood as speaking of demons? This project will explore this phenomenon, “demonic exegesis”, by posing questions such as: which biblical texts did Jews in the period connect with demons, when were the texts first associated with demons, and how do these traditions relate to Christian biblical interpretation connected to demons? The study will draw together demonology, biblical interpretation, and Jewish-Christian interaction in the rabbinic period.