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CLAUDIO ZAMAGNI
CLAUDIO ZAMAGNI

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Ancient Christian Literature, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with an introduction to the study of the discipline, posing the authors in the historical and religious context of their era and highlighting the diversity of literary genres they use in their work (with a wonderful blend of traditional elements and specific contents of the Christian kerygma).

The course aims to thoroughly analyze some texts of ancient Christian literature and to offer a knowledge of the history of ancient Christian literature, through the critical reading of Christian texts. It also aims to display some of the relationships between Christian literature and iconography

Knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages is required

This course will analyze some ancient Christian texts, from the beginning to the first half of the IIIrd Century

Traditional

Optional attendance

oral exam

Quali sono i caratteri storici effettivamente riscontrabili nei testi analizzati? Quali sono le prime opere esegetiche cristiane?

• Module 1: Jerome's De Viris illustribus and related texts
  • Books: handouts distributed in class to attendees


• Module 2: The "Elenchos": The Text and the Question of the Author
  • Books: handouts distributed in class to attendees


• Module 3: Ancient Christian Literature in Greek and Latin: Problems and Methods
  • Books: handouts distributed in class to attendees