- Docente: Antonio Cacciari
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Humanities (cod. 8850)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Anthropology, Religions, Oriental Civilizations (cod. 8493)
Learning outcomes
The students will get basis knowledge of the structures and formation of the New Testament, and of its historical, philological, and literary place. In the second part of the course, they will learn the use of exegetical instruments (critical editions, lexica, concordances, commentaries; electronic data-bases) through researches applied to New Testament texts.
Course contents
The students will get basis knowledge of the structures and
formation of the New Testament, and of its historical,
philological, and literary place. In the second part of the course,
they will learn the use of exegetical instruments (critical
editions, lexica, concordances, commentaries; electronic
data-bases) through researches applied to New Testament
texts.
i) History of New Testament research. The beginnings of New
Testament philology and the main stages of its historical
development, from Late Antiquity (Origen, II/III a.D.; Jerome, IV/V
a.D.) to Renaissance (Erasmus, Luther) and to the rise of the
modern critical research (XVIII/XIX centuries) and its growth in
contemporary times. Main trends in today's New Testament
research.
ii) The formation of New Testament: from the oral teaching of Jesus
and of the apostles to progressive constitution, and later
‘canonization', of a literary corpus. The text of the New
Testament. Language, style, and literary forms characteristic of
New Testament writings.
Readings/Bibliography
- Full reading of the New Testament in a modern Italian translation; the edition CEI (= “Conferenza Episcopale Italiana”), 2008 (freely downloadable; the text will be also uploaded by the teacher within teaching material). The CEI translation is printed also in Bibbia di Gerusalemme (1a ed., EDB, Bologna 1974 [e rist.]; 2a ed., EDB, Bologna 2009 [e rist.]), complete with a rich annotation.
- One of the following handbooks by student’s choice:
— R.E. BROWN, Introduzione al Nuovo Testamento, Queriniana, Brescia 2001 (only pp. 31-192; 553-593; 1063-1093);
— B.D. EHRMAN, Il Nuovo Testamento: un'introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2015 (only pp. 95ff.).
- The students who cannot attend the lessons, in addition to the above program, will replace the class notes with the reading of 2 articles at their choice included in the following collections of essays:
— E. PRINZIVALLI (a cura di), C. Gianotto, E. Norelli, M. Pesce, L'enigma Gesù. Fonti e metodi della ricerca storica, Carocci, Roma 2008 (rist.);
— R. PENNA (a cura di), Le origini del cristianesimo. Una guida, Roma, Carocci 2004 (rist.)
— R. PENNA, Le prime comunità cristiane. Persone, tempi, luoghi, forme, credenze, Roma, Carocci 2011 (rist.).
Teaching methods
Lectures; use of bibliographic and electronic databases.
Assessment methods
The students will demonstrate a complete reading of the New Testament in a modern italian translation.
The students will discuss, on the basis of the chosen handbook and essays, the main critical problems concerning the New Testament, and especially its historical and literary contents, its tradition and the textual and literary forms which it contains.
In order to obtain a good grade, the students should show the knowledge of: a) the contents of New Testament writings; b) the chronology of New Testament writings; c) the main critical issues concerning the various sections of New Testament writings (Gospels, Acts, Letters, Revelation).Teaching tools
Projector; PC.
Office hours
See the website of Antonio Cacciari