C., The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, III, London: T&T Clark, 2004, 466, quien anade a pie de pagina: <<Both can at any rate be
retrojected into Aramaic>>, apoyandose en FITZMYER, J.
In attempting to understand the origin of living organisms, the ancients quite reasonably reversed (
retrojected) the series of immutable organisms back in time to the de novo creation of the first individual (monogenism) or group (polygenism) of every kind of creature.
It is born from a moral vision for the future that is
retrojected into the distant past.
(The familiar references to rows of scholars, in which the novices sit in the back rows, and advance to the front rows as they progress--often
retrojected to the Tannaitic period--actually describe the highly structured world of the late talmudic academies of Babylonia.)
(1) According to Phyllis Rackin, one critical assumption that needs to be reexamined is Renaissance misogyny: "With the turn to history in literary studies generally, and especially in the field of the Renaissance, feminist Shakespeare criticism has been almost completely shaped by the scholarly consensus about the pervasiveness of masculine anxiety and women's disempowerment in Shakespeare's world." (2) One way to puncture this totalizing view of Renaissance women is, as Rackin demonstrates, through archival research that produces materials complicating the coherent narratives critics have
retrojected into Renaissance texts.
The term then got
retrojected to describe Jewish examples of the same type, both canonical (the book of Daniel) and noncanonical (1 and 2 Enoch, 4 Ezra, etc.), all of which have these elements in common: "The apocalyptic books report mysterious revelations that are mediated by angels and disclose a supernatural world.
According to Berger and Luckmann, internalization happens when 'the objectivated social world is
retrojected into consciousness in the course of socialization' (1966:61).
Depictions of Shamanic practices often shade into cultural appropriation and patronizing colonialist discourses that link indigenous beliefs with the "childlike." Bramwell continues this line of reasoning into his chapter on witchcraft and the romance of prehistory, and critiques the manner in which "modern Wiccan beliefs and practices are
retrojected into historical or time-slip narratives and antiquity is conferred upon them by association with prehistoric monuments" (145).
Hanns ChristofBrennecke, Hilarius von Poitiers und die Bischofsopposition gegen Konstantias II: Untersuchungen zur dritten Phase des Arianischen Streites (337-361) (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1984), 180-82, rejects the historicity of this incident on the logic that the Nicene Creed was unknown in the Latin west at this time and that the silence of Lucifer of Cagliari about the matter suggests that Hilary
retrojected his post-Sirmium vision into the account.