Università Roma Tre

First semester (six weeks).
Monday and Wednesday, 12-14 hours, STREAMING LESSON.
Friday, 9-11 hours, Aula 15, LESSON IN PRESENCE
Beginning of the course: Monday, November 16th, 2020.

Course title 2020-2021: The Gospel of Nicodemus and its tradition.

The traditions on the Passion-Death-Resurrection of Jesus are contained not only in works that have become canonical, but also, and to a much wider extent, in an apocryphal literary production, interesting both from the point of view of content and from that of the phenomena of transmission that characterize it, paradigmatic of the fortune of texts without a statute of authority. The course aims to deepen the literary history of the Gospel of Nicodemus, also known as the Acts of Pilate, the most successful and widespread apocryphal on Passion-Death-Resurrection among Christians of all ages and languages, transmitted by more than five hundred manuscripts and subject to adaptations and rewriting of all kinds (homilies, sacred representations, novels, poems), which in the sixth century led, among other things, to the addition of the long and famous description of the Descensus ad inferos of Christ.

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

General section: a text to choose between
P. CHIESA, Elementi di critica testuale. Seconda edizione, Bologna: Pàtron, 2012;
R. MAISANO, Filologia del Nuovo Testamento. La tradizione e la trasmissione dei testi, Roma: Carocci, 2014.