Università Roma Tre

Course title 2019-2020: The apocryphal infancy gospels.

Module I: The apocryphal infancy gospels (1st-3rd century)
Traditions on the birth and childhood of Jesus are not only contained in works that have become canonical (the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke), but also, and to a much greater extent, in an apocryphal literary production, interesting both from the point of view of content, as from that of phenomena of transmission that characterize it, paradigmatic of the fate of texts without a status of authority. The module aims to deepen, from various perspectives of investigation (philological-critical, linguistic-literary, historical-doctrinal) some of the oldest works, such as the Nativity of Mary (Protoevangelium of James), Liber requiei, Stories of Childhood [paidiká] of the Lord Jesus.

Lesson materials (critical editions, translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

Course title 2019-2020: The apocryphal infancy gospels.

Module II: The apocryphal infancy gospels (from the 4th century)
The traditions on the birth and childhood of Jesus are not only contained in works that have become canonical (the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke), but also, and to a much greater extent, in an apocryphal literary production, interesting both from the point of view of content, as from that of phenomena of transmission that characterize it, paradigmatic of the fate of texts without a status of authority. The module aims to deepen, from various perspectives of investigation (philological-critical, linguistic-literary, historical-doctrinal) the evolution of those traditions in works that followed the Constantinian age, such as, for example, the Infancy Gospel “of the Pseudo-Matthew”.

Materials for the lessons (critical editions, translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.