Università Roma Tre

Course title 2019-2020: 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 seminars (critical editions, translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.