Università Roma Tre

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

Propedeuticity: The course is propedeutic to that of Letteratura cristiana di età post-costantiniana (Laurea Magistrale).

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.

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