Nous avons aspiré à mettre à lumière à travers ces travaux la façon dont la figure de Bethsabée fut appréhendée, interprétée et représentée dans la littérature et les arts, de la Bible à nos jours, à travers un choix d’œuvres varié. À la fois diachronique et comparatiste, la perspective que nous avons suivie repose sur la mise en regard du texte et de l’image ; elle est également fondée sur le rapprochement d’œuvres littéraires d’époques et de langues diverses, de façon à dévoiler les chaînes interprétatives qui se sont élaborées et répondues au fil des siècles autour de celle qui fut successivement la femme d’Urie, l’amante de David, la mère de Salomon et l’ancêtre du Messie. / This thesis of French and comparative Literature aims at highlighting the way the biblical figure of Bathsheba was perceived, interpreted and depicted in Literature and Arts, from the biblical backgrounds to our days, throughout a selection of various works. Both diachronic and comparatist, our analysis is mainly based on the parallel view of texts and images. It also lies on the simultaneous analysis of literary works belonging to different times and languages, in order to enhance the traditions which progressively emerged and responded to one another throughout the centuries about a woman who, in a single lifetime, was the wife of Uriah, the lover and spouse of king David, the mother of his son Solomon and one of the most subversive ancestors of Jesus Christ.

[pt] Esta dissertação propõe uma pesquisa ad fontes a respeito da teologia natural na Antiguidade Grega até a Patrística. Para isso, foram selecionadas algumas fontes gregas e latinas a fim de buscar os deuses dos poetas, os deuses dos filósofos, a phýsis na tradição bíblica e a theologia tripertita. Em um primeiro momento, foram pesquisados os deuses dos poetas e dos filósofos nos dois primeiros capítulos. Nesses capítulos, foram apresentadas duas abordagens a respeito da teologia natural na filosofia grega. A primeira abordagem trata da teologia natural como uma teologia da natureza. Já a segunda abordagem trata da teologia natural como uma teologia racional. Em um segundo momento, foi investigada a phýsis na tradição bíblica do Antigo Testamento, da Septuaginta e do Novo Testamento. E, por fim, a theologia tripertita (teologia mítica, teologia natural e teologia civil) foi apresentada em quatro pensadores não cristãos (Varrão, Plutarco de Queroneia, Dião Crisóstomo e Aécio) e cinco cristãos (Tertuliano de Cartago, Arnóbio de Sica, Lactâncio, Eusébio de Cesareia e Agostinho de Hipona). / [en] This dissertation proposes an ad fontes research on natural theology in Greek Antiquity through Patristics. For this purpose, this work has selected some Greek and Latin sources in order to find the gods of the poets, the gods of the philosophers, the phýsis in biblical tradition and the theologia tripertita. At first, the gods of the poets and philosophers were surveyed in the first two chapters. In these chapters, two approaches to natural theology in Greek philosophy were presented. The first approach dealt with natural theology as a theology of nature. The second approach dealt with natural theology as a rational theology. Then, the phýsis in the biblical tradition of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, and the New Testament was examined. At last, the theologia tripertita (mythical theology, natural theology, and civil theology) was presented in four non-Christian thinkers (Varro, Plutarch of Chaeronea, Dio Chrysostom and Aetius) and five Christians (Tertullian of Carthage, Arnobius of Sica, Lactantius, Eusebius of Caesarea, and Augustine of Hippo).