New Testament

The course aims to initiate the students to a critical understanding of these crucial texts along three trajectories:
1) introducing to the critical knowledge of the "Urchristliche Literatur (early Christian literature)" (I century CE), canonical ( = New Testament) and extra-canonical;,
2) allowing in recognizing the para-literary characters of the most ancient Christian textual production;
3) applying the methodological approaches elaborated by the biblical sciences.

At the end of the course, the student will:
1) understand the main textual dynamics, their respective historical contexts and the most significant moments of this literary history;
2) recognize the critical difficulties determined by the writings preserved in this collection, tracing them, synchronously, to the features of the text and, diachronically, up to the history of the tradition in which they arose;
3) be autonomous in the choice and use of the most appropriate critical instrumentation to deal effectively with the critical hurdles denounced by these writings.