La littérature des questions et réponses dans l'Antiquité profane et chrétienne
Subtitle: de l'enseignement à l'exégèse : actes du séminaire sur le genre des questions et réponses tenu à Ottawa les 27 et 28 septembre 2009
By: édités par Marie-Pierre Bussières
Contributors: Robbins, Vernon K. (Vernon Kay), 1939-, contributor; Kaler, Michael, contributor; Pettipiece, Timothy, contributor; Edwards, Robert Michael, contributor; Fleury, Pascale, contributor; Piovanelli, Pierluigi, contributor; Macé, Caroline, contributor; Bhola, Rajiv, contributor; Guinot, Jean-Noël, contributor; Petruccione, John, 1950-, contributor; Zamagni, Claudio, contributor; Papadogiannakis, Yannis, contributor; Schmidt, Thomas S., contributor
Series: Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia -- 64 = -- Research on the inheritance of early and medieval Christianity -- 64; Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia -- 64.
Publisher: Brepols; Brepols Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9782503546865
Subjects: Commentaries; Early Christian literature; History and criticism; Fathers of the church; Comparative and general Grammar; Interrogative; History; Bible
Other titles: Question and answer literature in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity :
Description: "The question and answer literary genre in Antiquity is most often associated with commentaries on the Scriptures. In ways that remain largely unexplored by scholarship, this discursive technique was also put to good use in other genres as well. In this volume, question and answer literature, long though to be inherited from the dialogic method in philosophy, is studies in terms of its educational scope, in a Christianized world. Texts shaped in a question and answer format for a pedagogical purpose were certainly extremely popular in Antiquity and eventually evolved to the point that they no longer served as brewers of thought -- as was the case in philosophy -- nor as instruments of memorisation -- as the grammatical questions on Homeric poems -- but rather for the purpose of gathering short treatises or commentaries on the Scriptures or on teachings for the use of the Christian, layman or cleric. The texts gathered here explore the didactic perspective of the erotapocritic genre in exegetical texts, of the dialogue technique in initiation gnostic and Valentinian literature, and in Late Antique pedagogical literature, in the hope of outlining not only their mechanism, but also their tone and intended public"--Back cover.

The question and answer literary genre in Antiquity is most often associated with commentaries on the Scriptures. In ways that remain largely unexplored by scholarship, this discursive technique was also put to good use in other genres as well. In this volume question and answer literature, long thought to be inherited from the dialogic method in philosophy, is studied in terms of its educational scope, in a Christianized world. Texts shaped in a question and answer format for a pedagogical purpose were certainly extremely popular in Antiquity and eventually evolved to the point that they no longer served as brewers of thought - as was the case in philosophy - nor as instruments of memorisation - as the grammatical questions on Homeric poems-, but rather for the purpose of gathering short treatises or commentaries on the Scriptures or on teachings for the use of the Christian, layman or cleric.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

French and English contributions; abstracts translated into French and English.
Table of contents: title: Préface = Preface :; title: De l'enseignement à l'exégèse et à rebours  -- Marie-Pierre Bussières -- La littérature apocryphie et l'échange éducatif = Apocryphal literature and educational dialogue :; title: Questions and answers in Gospel of Thomas  -- Vernon K. Robbins; title: Just how close are the gnostic revelation dialogues to erotapokriseis literature, anyway?  -- Michael Kaler; title: Coptic answers to Manichaean questions : the erotapokritic nature of the Kephalaia  -- Timothy Pettipiece -- La figure du maître = The master's persona :; title: The rhetoric of authority : the nature of revelation in the First apocalypse of James  -- Robert Michael Edwards; title: La question rhétorique : exploration d'un genre didactique chez les Rhetores latini minores  -- Pascale Fleury -- Transfomations et réécritures = Transformations and rewritings :; title: Entre oralité et (ré)écriture : le modèle des erotapokriseis dans les dialogues apocryphes de Nag Hammadi  -- Pierluigi Piovanelli; title: Le genre des questions et réponses encourageait-il à̀ l'autocorrection? : l'exemple de récritures dans les Questions de l'Ambrosiaster  -- Marie-Pierre Bussières; title: Les Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem d'un Pseudo-Athanase (CPG 2257) : un état de la question  -- Caroline Macé -- Les Quaestiones du IVe au Ve siècle = The Quaestiones in the 4th and 5th centuries :; title: Dating Eusebius Quaestiones ad Stephanum  -- Rajiv Bhola; title: Les Questions sur l'Octateuque et les Règnes de Thé́odoret de Cyr : œuvre originale ou simple compilation?  -- Jean-Noël Guinot; title: The audience of Theodoret's Questions on the Octateuch  -- John F. Petruccione; title: Is the question-and-answer literary genre in early Christian literature a homogeneous group?  -- Claudio Zamagni -- Postérité = Posterity :; title: Didacticism, exegesis, and polemics in pseudo-Kaisarios' erotapokriseis  -- Yannis Papadogiannakis; title: Jeux de réponses et programme didactique dans les Commentaires de Basile le Minime aux Discours de Grégorie de Nazianze -- Thomas Schmidt.