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Laurea magistrale in Scienze filosofiche - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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Teaching code

4S02310

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/06 - HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

Period

I semestre dal Oct 3, 2011 al Jan 27, 2012.

Learning outcomes

The probe of two Gnostic Texts from Ancient Near East does enable us to do a study in religious dualism, in its historico-cultural context and in critical survey come out of historiographic research.

Program

Prerequisites: N.B. Only those who have followed and completed the undergraduate course can apply to this course.

Course content: The Gnostic principle and its syndromes.
Reading of The Gospel according to Thomas and of the Chant of the Pearl.

Reading list:
The Gospel according to Thomas. Coptic text established and translated by A.Guillaumont, H.-C. Puech, G.Quispel, W.Till and Yassah 'Abd Al Masih, E.J.Brill-Collins, Leiden-London 1959.
Il Canto della perla (Acta Thomae,108-113),Testo greco, traduzione,introduzione e note di Carlo Angelino, il melangolo, Genova 1987.
H. Jonas, Il principio gnostico, trad.it. Morcelliana, Brescia 2011.
P. A. Carozzi, Rendere sensibile il divino. Le arti nelle religioni, Chimera Editore, Milano 2009.
P.A. Carozzi, Gerolamo di Stridone o della traduzione biblica, Chimera Editore, Milano 2008.
Further reading lists will be given during the course.

Didactic methods: Seminars with active student participation alternating with lectures.

Examination Methods

Oral test. The participation in the seminars of each individual student will also be taken into consideration.
N.B. Those who do not attend the course will have to provide the teacher with a written essay, referring to the course bibliography.

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