Category:Apocalyptic Studies--Italy

Italian Studies on Apocalypticism

Overview

The interest in Second Temple Apocalypticism arose in Italy in the late 1970s with the publication of the Italian translations of Schmithals' Die Apokalyptik and Koch's Ratlos vor der Apokalyptic. In the 1980s and 1990s Paolo Sacchi emerged as an internationall leading figure in the field for his studies on the Enochic tradition. Great attention gained also the work of Eugenio Corsini, Ugo Vanni, Bruno Corsani on Revelation, and Benito Marconcini on Jewish Apocalypticism. Two conferences in the 1990s, in Rome and Seiano respectively, consolidated the strength of the Italian School of apocalypticism, which Gabriele Boccaccini and Edmondo Lupieri contributed to make known internationally. Since 2001, Italy has become the seat of the biennial Enoch Seminars. The tradition of Italian studies on apocalypticism in Italy is carried on by Luca Arcari.

Import/Export & International Impact

In the 1990s the studies of Paolo Sacchi and his colleagues and pupils had such a strong impact that it became common to talk of an Italian School on apocalypticism. Italian scholars gave a decisive contribution to the formation in 2001 of the Enoch Seminar under the leadership of Gabriele Boccaccini; the international meetings of the Enoch Seminar are still hold regularly in Italy. As a consequence of the vast production of works by Italian scholars in the field only a few international authors had their works translated into Italian, notably Koch in 1977, Russell in 1991, and Collins in 1999.