Search for dissertations about: "early Christian poetry"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words early Christian poetry.

  2. 1. Proba the Prophet : Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Proba

    Author : Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed; Mats Malm; Karla Pollmann; idéhistoria och religion Institutionen för litteratur Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Proba; Cento; Virgil; early Christian poetry; Bible epic; querelle des femmes; author; reception; typology; hypotextuality.; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

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  4. 2. Proba the Prophet: Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba

    Author : Sigrid Schottenius; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Proba; Cento; Virgil; early Christian poetry; Bible epic; querelle des femmes; author; reception; typology; hypotextuality.;

    Abstract : The present study aims to deepen the critical understanding of the fourth century poet Faltonia Betitia Proba’s Cento and its reception, a text of considerable historical and cultural importance. Not only is it one of few extant Latin texts from antiquity by a woman writer, but it is also one of our oldest Christian Latin poems; it is an early example of cultural amalgamation of the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman exegetical and literary traditions in that it is almost exclusively composed with verses from Virgil’s Aeneid, Georgics, and Eclogues, but narrates key episodes from the Old and New Testament. READ MORE

  5. 3. Studies on Juvencus' Language and Style

    Author : Andreas Thor; Gerd Haverling; David Langslow; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Juvencus; biblical epic; poetic language; archaisms; Early Latin; Late Latin; prosaic language; biblical language; variation; Virgil; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the language and style used in the poem Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor by the fourth-century Christian poet Juvencus. The poem, a rendering of the biblical story of Jesus in dactylic poetry, initiated a literary genre, which is referred to as biblical epic. READ MORE

  6. 4. The green shadow of Christ : a reception-exegetical study of Jesus and Pan in the gospel of Mark

    Author : David Wiljebrand; Karin Neutel; Mikael Tellbe; David Horrell; Sylvia Keesmaat; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Mark; Pan; Ecological Hermeneutics; eco-critisism; reception exegesis; agrarian culture; agrarianism; imperial ideology; pastoral poetry; Greco-Roman religion; nature discourses; Satan; demonology; Environmental History; nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates presentations of Jesus in the gospel of Mark, mainly chapter 6 and 9, in the light of the juxtaposition of Christ and the Greek nature god Pan. This juxtaposition recurs in the reception history of Pan in Western European culture. READ MORE