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Contexts of early Christianity - LDOC36
Title: Kontexty raného křesťanství
Guaranteed by: HTF - Katedra religionistiky (28-06)
Faculty: Hussite Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: both
E-Credits: 0
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 6/0, C [HS]
Extent per academic year: 18 [hours]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Level:  
Explanation: Podle ISP.
Belongs to the student work of type: disertační práce
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
can be fulfilled in the future
no points awarded for fulfilment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: prof. Ulrich Berner, Dr.
prof. Thomas Richard Hatina, Ph.D.
prof. Dr. Lukas Bormann
Annotation -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (07.02.2021)
The annotation of the seminar includes two basic course focus frameworks, from which the doctoral student chooses after consultation with his or her supervisor. Within the chosen focus, the specific topic of the seminar will be specified taking into account the ISP of the student, or the topic of his or her dissertation, and the current state of research of the given problems (new monograph, monothematic issue of the relevant periodical, etc.). Therefore, the annotation characterizes only the basic outline of partial areas of focus, and informs about the general framework from which one specific problem is chosen for a specific semester. The course is organized in the form of active participation by doctoral students. Doctoral students take responsibility for partial topics, supervise, and correct the reading of a given section of the work and its interpretation, and moderate the discussion. The unifying framework is an analysis of early Christian literature in the literary and philosophical context of the time period. A) In the course, students focus on the function of Jewish biblical quotations and allusions in the canonical gospels with special emphasis on the Gospels of Mark and John. The starting point of the course is a reflection on the literary context of early Judaism and the wider Greco-Roman world in order to explain the relationship between history and myth. Attention is paid to the current state of research and the use of various approaches (historical criticism, literary criticism, and the theory of social memory). The aim of this part of the course is to develop knowledge of hermeneutics and methodology. After examining selected representatives of current research, students will analyse the function of the Old Testament in Mark’s and John’s narrative. The course will end with selected case studies from each of the two Gospels. The course is taught in English. Selection of topics: - Versions of the Old Testament in the 1st century and early Jewish interpretive strategies. - Historiography and mythography in antiquity - Current approaches to the study of the Old Testament in the Gospels - Mark’s application of the Old Testament - John’s application of the Old Testament B) In the course, students focus on two main points: 1) the various schools of philosophy that offered rational systems of orientation (“Orientierungssysteme”) and competed with Christianity in this regard, at least with regard to the intellectual elite in the Roman Empire; 2) the various strategies of the “Church Fathers” to address this challenge through the integration and/or rejection of philosophy as such, or of entire systems and/or elements of philosophy. The course is taught in English. Selection of topics: - “Dogmatic schools” offering ethical systems based on different philosophical worldviews: Middle Platonism; stoicism; epicureanism. - Scepticism as an alternative to all “dogmatic” schools. - Explicitly by rejecting and criticizing Christianity, such as Julian the Apostate, or - Reaction to Christianity by taking a neutral stance by preserving pagan traditions without controversy with Christianity, such as Themistius. - Christianity presented as “(true) philosophy” (Justina, “philosopher and martyr”). - Christianity presented as philosophical monotheism (Minucius Felix). - Philosophy condemned as incompatible with Christianity (Tertullian). - Philosophy considered as preparation for (Christian) theology (Origen). - Philosophy considered beneficial in the context of conversion (Augustin).
Syllabus -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Semináře probíhají blokově (v celkovém rozsahu 18 výukových hodin). Výběr semináře zaznamenává student do ISP. Semináře jsou organizovány formou aktivní účasti doktorandů. Doktorandi přebírají zodpovědnost za dílčí téma, vedou a korigují četbu zadaného díla, jeho překlad, interpretaci a moderují diskuzi. Kromě badatelských cílů tak semináře plní rovněž funkci didaktickou, doktorandi se učí vést odborné semináře.

V případě omezení distanční výuky v souvislosti s pandemií probíhá výuka distanční formou za využití prostředí Moodle a programu MS Teams.

Zahrnuje dva základní rámce směřování, mezi nimiž volí doktorand po konzultaci se školitelem a zvolené směřování zaznamenává do ISP.

V rámci zvoleného směřování je pak konkrétní dílčí téma semináře upřesněno při zohlednění ISP studenta, resp. tématu jeho disertace, a aktuálního stavu bádání daného problémů (nová monografie, monotematické číslo relevantního periodika atp.). Anotace jednotlivých kurzů uvedené v akreditačním návrhu proto charakterizují pouze základní osnovu kurzů.

Descriptors -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Ph.D. study.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Active participation in the seminar, taking over one topic of the seminar.

Literature -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (09.03.2021)

A)

  • HATINA, Thomas R. In Search of a Context: The Function of Scripture in Mark’s Narrative. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8264-6067-4.
  • JUEL, Donald. Messainic Exegesis: Christological Interpretation of the Old Testament in Early Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988. ISBN 1-4813-0795-9.
  • LONGENECKER, Richard N. Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. ISBN 0-8028-1569-3.
  • MOYISE, Steve. Jesus and Scripture: Studying the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011. ISBN 0801039045.
  • ELLIS, E. E. Biblical Interpretation in the New Testament Church. In: Mikra, edited by M. J. Mulder, pp. 691-725. CRINT 2.1. Assen: Van Gorcum; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.
  • HANSON, Anthony Tyrrell. The Living Utterances of God: The New Testament Exegesis of the Old. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1983. ISBN 0232515530.
  • HATINA, Thomas R. “Memory and Method: Theorizing John’s Mnemonic Use of Scripture,” in (ed. Thomas R. Hatina; Library of New Testament Studies 613; London: T. & T. Clark International, 2020), 219-36.
  • HATINA, Thomas R. The Provenance of Jesus’ Quotations of Scripture from a Social Memory Perspective. In The Earliest Perceptions of Jesus in Context: Essays in Honor of John Nolland Aaron W. White a David Wenham, Craig A. Evans; London: T. & T. Clark, 2018), pp 59-76.
  • KUGEL, James L. a Rowan A. Greer. Early Biblical Interpretation. Library of Early Christianity. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. ISBN 0664219071.
  • MOYISE, Steve. Evoking Scripture: Seeing the Old Testament in the New. London: T & T Clark, 2008. ISBN 0567033244.

B)

  • BERNER, Ulrich. The Image of the Philosopher in Late Antiquity and in Early Christianity. In: Hans G. Kippenberg et al (eds,) Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990 (Religion and Reason 37), 125-136. ISBN 0-89925-600-7.
  • BERNER, Ulrich. Das Bild des Philosophen bei Origenes und Philostrat. In: Roberzt J. Daly (ed.). Origeniana Quinta. Papers of the 5th International Origen Congress at Boston. Leuven: University Press, 1992, 368-372. ISBN 90-6186-511-5.
  • BERNER, Ulrich. Epicurus’ Role in Controversies on Asceticism in European Religious History. In: Oliver Freiberger (ed.), Asceticism and its Critics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 43-59. ISBN 0-19-530791-7.
  • BERNER, Ulrich. Skeptizismus und Religionskritik. In: Ulrich Berner a Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler (eds.). Religion und Kritik in der Antike. Berlin: LIT, 2009, 39-59. ISBN 978-3-8258-1413-7.
  • BERNER, Ulrich. Das Christentum in der Antike. Eine religionsgeschichtliche Perspektive. In: Klaus Fitschen et al. (eds.). Kirchengeschichte und Religionswissenschaft. Methoden und Fallstudien, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018, 135-156. ISBN 3-374-05600-8
  • BORMANN, Lukas. Diversity by Rewriting. The divine characteristics as part of the identity concept of Jewish groups in second temple Judaism, in: Antti Laato / Jacques Van Ruiten (Hg.), Rewritten Bible Reconsidered. Proceedings of the Conference in Karkku, Finland, August 24-26 2006, Winona Lake, In 2008 (Studies in Rewritten Bible - SRB 1), S. 103-123. ISBN 9521220198
  • BORMANN, Lukas. Theologie des Neuen Testaments. Grundlinien und wichtigste Ergebnisse der internationalen Forschung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017. ISBN: 9783825248383
  • DIHLE, Albrecht. Philosophie als Lebenskunst. Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1990. ISBN 3-531-07304-4.
  • EKSEN, Kerem. Truth in Practice: Foucault‘s Procedural Approach to Spirituality. In: Heather Salazar a Roderick Nicolls (eds.). The Philosophy of Spirituality. Analytic, Continental and Multicultural Approaches to a New Field of Philosophy. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2019, 273-292. ISBN 978-90-04-37631-1.
  • EKSEN, Kerem. Descartes and Spiritual Exercises: A Critique of Pierre Hadot’s Historical Narrative. In: Philosophy Today 2019, 63. (forthcoming). ISSN 0031-8256.
  • ERNST, Gerhard (ed.). Philosophie als Lebenskunst. Antike Vorbilder, Moderne Perspektiven. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016. ISBN 978-3-518-29795-7.
  • HADOT, Pierre. Philosophie als Lebensform. Geistige Übungen in der Antike. Berlin: Gatza, 1991. ISBN 3-928262-02-5

Registration requirements -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Teachers:

prof. Thomas R. Hatina, Ph.D;

prof. Dr. theol. Lukas Bormann;

prof. Dr. theol. Ulrich Berner

 
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