CHRISTIANITY AND MEDITERRANEAN CULTURES
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
Rossana BARCELLONA
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, the course aims to provide:
1) a knowledge of advanced issues and problems of the discipline on the
historical, historiographical and methodological.
2) the necessary tools to apply methodologies proper to the discipline,
to argue competently on the topics and questions dealt with.
3) tools for building independent judgement, capacity for critical
analysis, synthesis of new ideas, to be used as possible keys to tackle case
studies on phenomena of early Christianity.
4) a method for interpreting acquired data, exercising the ability to
elaborate possible theses and communicate with technical language and
competence the contents of the discipline.
5) indications for acquiring specialist knowledge independently, using
the research and working tools provided during the course.
Course Structure
The course structure will be based on frontal lectures,
but students will be expected to contribute actively to the discussion on the
topic under consideration with questions and
answers. The frontal teaching will be supported by power point slides and other
tools.
All themes will be developed with sources and
studies critical reading.
The
material presented in class (PowerPoint slides, sources, essays) will be
available for download at the Studium platform.
Required Prerequisites
echnical language and basic historical knowledge.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
A (3
ECTS): Early
Christianity
- Issues pertaining to the history of religions and
methodology.
- The problem of periodisation of Christianism from
its origin.
- From Jesus to the Christianism.
- The Hostility: Pagan Intellectuals against
Cristianity.
- The Persecutions: Decius; Valerian; Dioclezian.
- The turning point: Constantine the Great and
Theodosius.
- Christian Theology and Christian Anthopology.
B (3 ECTS): Issues of Contemporary
Historiography
- In-depth analysis of contemporary historiography.
-The quest for the “historical Jesus” in Italy and
abroad.
-
Jesus and John Baptist relationship
Textbook Information
A (3 ECTS):
- G. Jossa, Il cristianesimo antico: Dalle origini al concilio di Nicea,
Roma, Carocci, 2006 (ed. orig. 1997), pp. 224.
-E.
Prinzivalli, Questioni di Storia del cristianesimo antico
(I-IV sec.), Roma, ED. Nuova Cultura, 2010, pp. 5-111 e 153-191
B (3 ECTS):
- G. Segalla, Sulle tracce di Gesù. La
“Terza ricerca”, Assisi, Cittadella Editrice, 2006, pp. 1-141.
- E. Lupieri, Giovanni e Gesù. Storia di un antagonismo, Roma Carocci, 2013, pp. 230.
- A. Destro-M. Pesce, Il
Battista e Gesù. Due movimenti giudaici nel tempo della crisi, Roma, Carocci
2021, pp. 267.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO