This thesis will argue that John 8.6, 8—when Jesus twice ‘bent down and began to write on the earth’ in the Pericope Adulterae (John 7.53–8.11; hereafter PA)—is a claim that Jesus was a literate individual. Furthermore, it will argue that the claim that Jesus is capable of writing is an important key to understanding the insertion of PA into the Gospel of John (hereafter GJohn). The following study therefore offers a new interpretation and transmission-history of perhaps the most popular story in gospel tradition.

Mgr. Andrea Svobodová Komplexní studium Rukopisu dzikovského se zam ením na grafickou, jazykovou a textovou analýzu eské sbírky kázání A Comprehensive Study of The Dzikowian Manuscript Focusing on a Graphic, Language and Textual Analysis of the Czech Postil Abstract The thesis submits a comprehensive philological analysis of the Dzikowian Manuscript, an insufficiently explored late medieval manuscript containing two postils, de tempore in Latin and de sanctis in Old Czech. The thesis aims to specify the place of this work in the context of medieval preaching, to critically review the previous research and to find new paths of research in evaluating this work. It is divided into three chapters, their common topic being attribution of both the postils on the grounds of codicological, content, and especially language features. Special emphasis is put on description of non-standard language phenomena, their interpretation being a key factor for transcription rules (one of the main results achieved apart from precising probable dating and localisation is a complete transcription of the Old Czech postil). The phenomena described enrich the existing inventory of deviations from the standard language and call for relating to other sources traditionally categorised as dialectal and thus for elaborating diachronic...

Da tempo la critica letteraria si interroga sulla possibilità di riconoscere nella lirica di Johann Christian Günther il primo esempio di lirica soggettiva dopo la grande stagione retorica seicentesca. Gli studi tesi ad indagare il valore innovativo della sua poesia sono stati sinora dedicati quasi esclusivamente ai suoi Liebeslieder o Klagelieder; il presente lavoro si concentra invece sull'analisi dei suoi canti spirituali. La ricerca qui condotta intende dimostrare come anche nella geistliche lyrik Günther proponga spesso una rilettura in chiave personale, se non talora autobiografica, di motivi tradizionali, per quanto sopravvivano in essa elementi tipici della poesia barocca. Se i canti giovanili rimangono per lo più ancorati all'imitazione, scarsamente originale, di modelli preesistenti, le composizioni attribuibili alla fase più matura della produzione del poeta testimoniano un'evoluzione nel suo approccio alla materia sacra; tale evoluzione, rispetto alla quale si ravvisa, in particolare, l'influenza del pietismo, prende forma nell'elaborazione sempre più consapevole ed originale di motivi e tematiche. Il lavoro prende in esame diversi gruppi di liriche: il ciclo di Perikopenlieder noti come Geistliche oden uber einige Sonn- und Festtage des sogenannten Christlichen Jahres des Herrn de Sacy verfertiget; la Bibeldichtung güntheriana, i Weihnachtslieder e i Bußlieder dell'autore slesiano. / Critical interest in the rich literary production of Johann Christian Günther has been focussing on the possibility of recognizing in his poems the first example of subjective poetry after the great rhetoric season of the 17th century. Most studies investigating the innovative value of Günther's work concentrate on his Liebeslieder or Klagelieder. The present work concentrates instead on his religious poems, and aims to demonstrate that also in his geistliche Lyrik the author is able to offer a personal, sometimes autobiographical, reading of traditional themes, despite the persistence of typical baroque elements. While his early lyrics tend to remain faithful to the scarcely original imitation of pre-existing models, his later poems show a different approach to religious material. This evolution takes the form of a personal and conscious elaboration of spiritual themes, characterized by a considerable influence of pietism. The present research examines in particular Günther's Perikopenlieder, known as Geistliche Oden uber einige Sonn- und Festtage des sogenannten Christlichen Jahres des Herrn de Sacy verfertiget, his Bibeldichtung, his Weihnachtslieder and his Bußlieder.