Gabriele Boccaccini (1989): A Biography in Pictures

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File:1987 World Athletics Indoor.jpg File:1989 World Athletics Indoor.jpg Gabriele Boccaccini (1989): A Biography in Pictures

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The Italian Experience: Marriage, Laurea, & Life in Canto de' Nelli

In 1980 Gabriele Boccaccini met his wife, Aloma Bardi. The two were married on Oct 26, 1981.

After completing the mandatory service in the civilian corps of the Italian Army, in 1983 Boccaccini earned His Laurea in Lettere (MA) at the University of Florence. He graduated with Honor with a thesis on Ricordare e dimenticare nella tradizione giudaica e cristiana antica <Remembering and Forgetting in the Early Jewish and Christian Traditions>. Shortly before his graduation he met for the first time with Professor Paolo Sacchi. It was the beginning of a long friendship and collaboration.

In those years Boccaccini lived in the center of Florence in an apartment in front of the Medici Chapels and worked as professor of Religion at the Liceo Internazionale of Florence. He commuted from time to time to Turin (where Paolo Sacchi lived and worked) and to Rome (where he could use the Library of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, hosted at the Parish of the Sacred Heart on Lungarno Prati by his former Professor of Religion at the Liceo Dante, padre Renato Simeone).

He got more and more involved in the ecumenical and Jewish-Christian dialogue as a member of the Board of Directors of both the Segretariato Attivita' Ecumeniche and the Amicizia Ebraica Cristiana, and as an editor of the Bollettino dell'Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana di Firenze that he contributed to renew as the voice of the entire Jewish-Christian movement in Italy. He regularly attended the Summer SAE meeting at La Mendola and the winter Jewish-Christian colloquia at Camaldoli.

In 1987 he began his doctoral studies in Judaism with Paolo Sacchi at the University of Turin, which meant that he left the teaching in Florence and more often commuted to Turin and Rome for his studies or to other locations for seminars and conferences. In March 1988 he was at the University of Bologna for a seminar with Jacob Neusner and then in May for a month in Naples at the Graduate School of Philosophical Studies, where he attended three graduate seminars: by Francesco Adorno on Hellenistic Philosophy, by Giovanni Garbini on the Phoenicians, and by Paolo Sacchi on Ancient Jewish Thought.

He began offering lectures on ancient Judaism and Christian Origins, first at the annual national Jewish-Christian Colloquia of Camaldoli (that he had contributed to found in 1980), and then at national conferences or as an invited speaker in Venice, Turin, Genoa, and Rome. His first international engagement was at an international Jewish-Christian conference in Rabat (Malta).

He published his first articles, based on his MA thesis. His research focused on the intellectual history of Second Temple Judaism and in particular on the development of Jewish apocalypticism. In 1987 he published in the journal "Henoch" the most important among his early contribution, an article in which he showed that Daniel and the Book of Dream Visions belonged to two different streams of Jewish apocalyptic thought. Not all the apocalypses could be considered the work of a single apocalyptic movement.

In 1989 he went as Visiting Scholar to Princeton Theological Seminary at the invitation of Professor James H. Charlesworth, editor of the American edition of the OT Pseudepigrapha. For the first time Boccaccini had the opportunity to present internationally the results of his own research and more in general of the Italian school on the OT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. At Princeton Boccaccini had the opportunity to meet some of the most distinguished American specialists on Second Temple Judaism. He began his task to reformulate in English his research in order to make it accessible at the international level. .

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Dec 10, 1989 -- 10^ Colloquio ebraico-cristiano, Camaldoli

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Nov 29, 1989 -- Soccer, 2^ Supercoppa Italiana

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Nov 23, 1989 -- Soccer, UEFA Super Cup

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Oct 14, 1989 -- Cycling, 83^ Giro di Lombardia

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Oct 6, 1989 -- 16^ Women's Euro Volley

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Oct 6, 1989 -- Henry V (Branagh), film

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Oct 1, 1989 -- 16^ Men's Euro Volley

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Sep 24, 1989 -- Car Racing, Portuguese Grand Prix

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Sep 20, 1989 -- The Phantom of the Opera (Webber), Canadian premiere, Toronto

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Sep 20, 1989 -- Miss Saigon (Schönberg), West End premiere

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Jul 1-23, 1989 -- Cycling, 76^ Tour de France

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Spring-Summer-Fall 1989 -- My Life in Italy

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May 24, 1989 -- Soccer, 34^ Champions League

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May 17, 1989 -- Soccer, UEFA Europa League

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Apr 30, 1989 -- Tennis, 82^ Monte Carlo Masters

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Apr 21, 1989 -- Field of Dreams (Robinson), film

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Apr 19, 1989 -- Passover

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Apr 9, 1989 -- Cycling, 87^ Paris-Roubaix

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Apr 2-3, 1989 -- Tennis, 5^ Miami Open [Lendl]

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Apr 2, 1989 -- Cycling, 73^ Tour of Flanders

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Mar 29, 1989 -- 61^ Academy Awards, Oscar Ceremony

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Mar 26, 1989 -- Car Racing, Brazilian Grand Prix

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Mar 18, 1989 -- Cycling, 80^ Milano-Sanremo

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MAR 3-5, 1989 -- 2^ World Athletics Indoor

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Winter 1989 -- My Life in the United States, Princeton NJ

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