Università Roma Tre

After an historical critical introduction, the course will go on to read the Gospel of Mark in Greek: the reading will be a good exercise for learning basic neotestamentary Greek. Students are expected to complete homework assignements , in order to fix in their mind what they have learned in the class.

Novum Testamentum graece, ed. NESTLE – ALAND, a cura di K. Aland - M. Blackl - C.M. Martini - B.M. Metzger - A. Wikgren, Stuttgart, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1999.27
R.Calzecchi Onesti, Leggo Marco e imparo il greco, PIEMME, Casale Monferrato (Al),1993.
One text to choose between:
G.Jossa, La verità dei Vangeli. Gesù di Nazaret tra storia e fede, Carocci editore, Roma 20114.
A. Destro-M.Pesce, Il racconto e la scrittura. Introduzione alla lettura dei vangeli, Carocci editore, Roma 2014.
For the students who can't attend the class_
B.Metzger, Il canone del Nuovo Testamento. Origine, sviluppo e significato, Paideia, Brescia 1997.
One text to choose between:
G.Jossa, La verità dei Vangeli. Gesù di Nazaret tra storia e fede, Carocci editore, Roma 20114.
A. Destro-M.Pesce, Il racconto e la scrittura. Introduzione alla lettura dei vangeli, Carocci editore, Roma 2014.

Christianity and religion in modern historiography
The course aims to introduce students to the main historiographical problems related to early modern and modern Christianity, debated in the last century. It’ll start from an excursus on the history of religious historiography, which would show the evolution over time of the characteristics, the purposes and methods of work of historians, both regarding use of the sources, both on the same drafting of the historical writing, both with regard to its teaching , then it’ll move on to the reconstruction of the search paths of some important scholars who have dealt with Christian religious history.
We will try to give students the ability to read and interpret critically historical essays and deepen its historiographical debates, in order to provide them with methodological expertise to independently develop their own research paths, analyzing scientifically the sources and its historiography. held methodological lessons and practical exercises of research, of discussion of the historiography and of use of tools and aids.
In the academic year 2017-2018 the course will be about the History of Christianity in Early Modern Age.

- Storici e religione nel Novecento italiano, a cura di D. MENOZZI – M. MONTACUTELLI, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2011 (Storia, 47), pp. 5-93; 109-220; 293-327; 371-417.
- Cristianesimo e storia. Rapporti e percorsi, a cura di P. SINISCALCO, Roma, Studium, 2002 (Religione e società, 42), pp. 85-167.

It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the modern history of Christianity to provide themselves with a manual, such as the Storia del Cristianesimo, dir. E. PRINZIVALLI, IV. L'età contemporanea (secc. XIX-XXI), a cura di GIOVANNI VIAN, Roma, Carocci, 2015 (Frecce, 195) or another in different language.