Università Roma Tre

Course title 2017-2018: Resurrectio mortuorum: texts on the resurrection of the dead (I-III century).

Description of course. The proclamation of Jesus resurrected by the dead, one of the essential points of the original kerygma (cf 1 Cor 15: 1-11), to be placed in the multiform context of Jewish eschatological expectations, produces among Christians a complex reflection on the resurrection of the dead, which involves the eschatological aspect (when the dead rise?), the anthropological one (how?), the ethical-soteriological one (why? Who rises?) and that leads progressively to define the doctrine. The course aims to conduct some surveys among the most important Christian works of the first three centuries related to this subject, in order to study the evolution of thought, often developped in a controversial form. The course is a seminary and involves the active participation of students, who are required to have knowledge (of high school level) of the Greek and Latin languages. Adaptations to the program are for students who do not know the ancient languages ​​or who can not attend; they are therefore invited to contact the teacher.

Bibliography.
Materials for seminars (critical editions and secondary bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

For students who have never undergone an examination of ancient Christian literature:
M. Simonetti - E. Prinzivalli, Storia della letteratura cristiana antica, EDB, Bologna 2010.
For students who have already completed exams of ancient Christian Literature: H.Y. Gamble, Libri e lettori nella chiesa antica, Paideia, Brescia 2006.

Course title 2017-2018: Resurrectio mortuorum: texts on the resurrection of the dead (IV-V century).

Description of course. During the 4th and 5th centuries faith in the resurrection of the dead was the subject of in-depth reflection on the part of Christians from the East and the West. The course aims to conduct some surveys of the most significant works of Greek authors and Latin authors of those centuries, to study the developments of reflection, largely characterized by polemical aspects, concerning such object of faith. The course is seminary and involves the active participation of students, who are required to have knowledge (of high school level) of the Greek and Latin languages. Adaptations to the program are for students who do not know the ancient languages ​​or who can not attend; they are therefore invited to contact the teacher.

Bibliography. Materials for seminars (critical editions and secondary bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

H.Y. Gamble, Libri e lettori nella chiesa antica, Paideia, Brescia 2006.
For students who already have Gamble's book in the syllabus of Letteratura delle origini cristiane: B.M. Metzger, Il canone del Nuovo Testamento, Paideia, Brescia 1997.