Università Roma Tre

First semester.
Hours: 6 hours/week, for 6 weeks: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Monday 3 October 2022. End of the course: November 2022.

Course title 2022-2023: Paul after Paul. Creation and transformation of an apocryphal text: the Third Letter to the Corinthians.

Class recordings will be available to students, who meet the requirements (physical frailty, employment contract, socio-economic frailty, imprisonment), who request them.

The course aims to deepen - from the perspective of historico-literary, historico-doctrinal and history-of-reception investigation - a Pauline apocryphal work: the Correspondence between Paul and the Corinthians, known as the Third Letter to the Corinthians. In it, the anonymous author writes on Paul's behalf a text in which the apostle is made to return to a theme already dealt with in the authentic First Letter to the Corinthians: faith in the resurrection of the dead. The work well exemplifies the phenomenon of apostolic pseudepigraphy and issues related to the formation of the Christian canon of Scripture; it is also an excellent case study on research methodologies applied to proto-Christian texts.
The course has a seminar character and involves the active participation of students.

Lecture materials (including critical editions of texts read in class) will be provided by the teacher.

General section.
For students who have never taken an exam in Ancient Christian Literature: M. SIMONETTI - E. PRINZIVALLI, Storia della letteratura cristiana antica, Bologna: EDB, 2010.
For students who have already taken exams in Ancient Christian Literature: H.Y. GAMBLE, Libri e lettori nella chiesa antica, Brescia: Paideia, 2006.