Unit HISTORY OF PATRISTIC EXEGESIS
- Course
- Classical culture
- Study-unit Code
- GP005349
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Matteo Monfrinotti
- Teachers
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- Matteo Monfrinotti
- Hours
- 36 ore - Matteo Monfrinotti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Fonti, tecniche e strumenti della ricerca storica e filologica
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/06
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- ITALIAN
- Contents
- The course aims at studying the interpretation of Sacred Scripture during the first five centuries and by Greek and Latin-speaking Christian authors.
- Reference texts
- Clara BURINI
Matteo MONFRINOTTI
(a cura di)
La Sacra Scrittura: storia della sua interpretazione
(in press) - Educational objectives
- The discipline which is an autonomous science within ancient Christian literatureaims to make the student aware of the exegetical activity carried out by the Christian authors of the first five centuries, in the East and in the West, and applied to the texts of the Old and New Testament.
Exegetical methods and exegetical language will be illustrated with particular reference to the works of authors from the Alexandrian environment and the Antiochene environment.
Some specifically demonstrative texts of the exegetical method will be read and commented in the classroom. - Prerequisites
- Knowledge of ancient Christian literature is recommended; it is desirable that the student has passed the exam of ancient Christian literature foreseen in the three-year period.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- Other information
- For the purposes of the exam, the student may also make use of the notes, especially those relating to any texts commented by the teacher.
- Learning verification modality
- During the oral exam, the student will have to demonstrate that he has understood the role of the subject in ancient Christian literature and in the history of the interpretation of Sacred Scripture. He will also have to orientate himself within the subject and be able to compare the different hermeneutical criteria applied by one or the other author in the passage from an episodic exegesis to a systematic exegesis.
- Extended program
- Definition of the subject
The beginnings of Christian exegesis
Episodic and systematic exegesis
Exegesis as a science
Exegetical literary genres.
Second and third century exegeses
Alexandria and the Alexandrians: allegorical criterion
Influence of the Alexandrian exegesis in the East and in the West
Antioch and the antiochent exegetes: theoretical criterion
Current pastoral exegesis
Ticonio and the first manual of biblical hermeneutics.
Augustine and the criterion of dilectio