Gabriele Boccaccini (b.1958), Italian-American scholar

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The collection of 3,000 ancient books donated to the library of the Eremo of Camaldoli (2019)
Gabriele Boccaccini
Meeting with Pope Francis (May 2019)
At Notre Dame (Feb 2017)
At Amsterdam (Nov 2016)

Gabriele Boccaccini [1] (b.1958) is an Italian-born American scholar, at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor MI), USA.

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Biography

Gabriele Boccaccini was born in Florence, Italy on March 24, 1958 to Walter Boccaccini, an opera stage director and then general manager of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Maria Adelaide Ghinozzi, a teacher who graduated in Philosophy under Prof. Eugenio Garin at the University of Florence.

He studied Classical Studies at the Liceo "Dante Alighieri" in Florence (1971-76), and enrolled as a student at the University of Florence. After completing his courses, he served two years in the civilian corps of the Italian Army, married in 1981 with musicologist Aloma Bardi and earned his Laurea (1983) in Early Christianity from the University of Florence, Italy under the mentorship of Ancient Philosophy professor Francesco Adorno. He then taught three years as a high-school professor of Religion at the Liceo Linguistico in Florence, before entering the PhD program at the University of Turin under the mentorship of Prof. Paolo Sacchi. In the Winter 1989 and 1990, he was Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary under the mentorship of Prof. James H. Charlesworth. In 1991 he earned his PhD in Judaic Studies from the University of Turin, Italy.

In Fall 1992 he joined the Faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan, working as Adjunct Professor in the PhD program directed by Prof. Jarl Fossum. He became Assistant Professor in 1999, Associate Professor in 2002 and then in 2005, Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins in the Department of Near Studies and at the Frankel Center of Judaic Studies.

In 2001 he founded and has directed ever since the Enoch Seminar. In 2006 he launched the Enoch Graduate Seminar. These series of international Seminars on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins have attracted hundreds of scholars from all around the world.

In 2009 he created 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, which is expanding, year after after, with thousands of visitors per months.

From 2005 to 2011 he was the Editor-in-chief of the journal Henoch. In 2012 he has become the Editor-in-Chief of Enoch Seminar Online, which publishes the papers of the Enoch Seminar and book reviews in the field of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins.

On March 2012 he has became an American citizen.

In 2012 he has launched with the Enoch Seminar a new series of academic seminars on Jewish, Christian and Islamic Origins, the so-called Nangeroni Meetings, as well as a series of receptions at the annual American Meetings of the SBL.

He has published numerous articles and books (in English or Italian) and edited most of the volumes of the Enoch Seminar. Works of his have been translated into German, Portuguese and Hungarian.

In 2018 he was awarded the title of "Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy)" by the President of Italy Sergio Matterella for his contribution to the "preservation and promotion of national prestige abroad."

On occasion of his 60th birthday, his former students and colleagues, J. Harold Ellens, Isaac W. Oliver, Jason von Ehrenkrook, James Waddell and Jason M. Zurawski, presented him a Festschrift: Wisdom Poured Out Like Water Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini. The volume, published by Walter De Gruyter in the series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 38, includes more than 40 contributions from international scholars.

In the year 2020 the COVID-19 crisis has been a challenge but also an opportunity to experiment new forms of international collaboration and make the Enoch Seminar a leading institution in the organization on online events, that have gathered hundreds of participants from all around the world.

In 2021-22 Boccaccini was head Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies, leading a group of a dozen international scholars in Second Temple Judaism. The theme was "Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity." Four international conferences were organized as part of the program.

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Gabriele Boccaccini, fiorentino, studioso del giudaismo del Secondo Tempio e delle origini cristiane, si laurea in lettere presso l'Università di Firenze, frequentando anche i corsi dello Studio Teologico Fiorentino (ora Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Centrale). Completa quindi la propria formazione dottorale all'Università di Torino sotto la guida di Paolo Sacchi. Membro dell'Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana di Firenze, è nel 1980 tra i promotori dei Colloqui Ebraico-Cristiani di Camaldoli. Nel 1989 si trasferisce negli Stati Uniti, dapprima come Visiting Scholar al Princeton Theological Seminary, e poi dal 1992 come docente presso la University of Michigan. Dal 2001 dirige l’Enoch Seminar da lui fondato, con il quale svolge un'intensa attività internazionali di incontri, convegni e pubblicazioni sul giudaismo del Secondo Tempio e le origini cristiane. E' autore e curatore di numerose opere in lingua inglese, specialmente sulla tradizione enochica e la sua ricezione, come componente essenziale del pensiero giudaico antico e per la sua influenza sulle origini esseniche e cristiane; a lui si devono, fra l'altro, la creazione di termini e categorie come "giudaismo medio" e "giudaismo enochico" che sono entrate nel comune linguaggio accademico e la riscoperta che il manoscritto di 1 Enoch ora conservato alla Biblioteca Vaticana fu portato in Italia dallo stesso James Bruce nel 1773. Cittadino americano dal 2012, mantiene sempre stretti contatti con l'Italia, sia a livello accademico (in particolare a Roma con l'Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, la Facolta' Valdese di Teologia e il Centro Card. Bea alla Pontificia Universita' Gregoriana), sia collaborando alle attività estive di BIBLIA, di Camaldoli e del Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC). Tra le sue pubblicazioni sono disponibili in italiano: Il medio giudaismo (Marietti 1993), Oltre l’ipotesi essenica (Morcelliana 2003), I giudaismi del Secondo Tempio (Morcelliana 2008), Dallo stesso grembo (con P. Stefani, EDB 2012), Le tre vie di salvezza di Paolo l'ebreo (Claudiana 2021), e Paolo di Tarso, un ebreo del suo tempo (con Giulio Mariotti, Carocci 2025). Dal 2005 al 2011 è direttore della rivista Henoch. Nel 2018 è insignito dal Presidente della Repubblica Italiana Sergio Mattarella del titolo di "Cavaliere della Stella d'Italia" per il suo impegno per la diffusione e la promozione della cultura italiana nel mondo, e per gli stessi motivi nel 2024 riceve un attestato di benemerenza dalla Presidenza della "Societa' Dante Alighieri" .

Fields of research and major contributions

Second Temple Studies -- Enochic Studies -- Apocalyptic Studies -- Qumran Studies

  • Intellectual history of Second Temple Judaism
  • Diversity of Second Temple Judaism
  • Concept of "Enochic Judaism", its contribution to Qumran and Christian origins.
  • Founder in 2001 and director of the Enoch Seminar
  • Author of articles and books -- Organizer of international conferences

New Testament Studies -- Historical Jesus Studies -- Pauline Studies

  • Inclusion of the Jesus movement within the diversity of Second Temple Judaism
  • Parallel origins of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
  • "Within Judaism" Reading of the NT texts as Second Temple Jewish literature
  • Enochic roots of Paul and the synoptics.

Italian Jewish Studies -- Holocaust Children Studies

  • Co-Founder in 1980 of the "Colloqui ebraico-cristiani di Camaldoli"
  • Founder in 2022 and co-director (with Gadi Luzzatto Voghera) of the "Settimane di studio internazionali sull'ebraismo italiano"
  • Author of articles on the Italian Holocaust in particular on the experiences of Luigi Ferri and Giulio Ballio (Morpurgo) -- organizer of international conferences

CULTURAL DONATIONS BY GABRIELE BOCCACCINI AND ALOMA BARDI

Beyond their research and academic activities, spouses Gabriele Boccaccini (historian and university professor) and Aloma Bardi (musicologist) consider cultural philanthropy and the preservation of historical, artistic, and musical heritage an essential commitment. Over the years, they have dedicated themselves to sharing their family collections with the public, enriching five major cultural institutions in Tuscany, Italy:

1. Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art (Prato) — Donated in 2007

  • Collection Name: Boccaccini Donation (Luciano Ori Collection)
  • Description of Heritage: A comprehensive corpus of 80 visual artworks by Florentine artist Luciano Ori (1928-2007), including 4 oil paintings, 60 collages, and 16 lithographs.
  • Historical Provenance: Avant-garde collection (Visual Poetry and Gruppo 70) inherited through direct family lineage. The artist Luciano Ori was a first cousin of Gabriele Boccaccini's mother.
  • Location: Integrated into the permanent modern collection at the Centro Pecci in Prato.

2. Museum of Sacred Art of Certaldo (Certaldo, Florence) — Donated in 2011

  • Collection Name: Linari Collection (Collezione Linari)
  • Description of Heritage: Paintings, sculptures, and sacred furnishings dating from the 16th to the 18th century. The highlight of the collection is the oil painting "Moses with the Tablets of the Law" (1683), signed by the Baroque master Ciro Ferri.
  • Historical Provenance: Historical art pieces from Villa Bardi in Linari (Barberino Val d'Elsa), originally belonging to the Mancini family and inherited by Aloma Bardi from her parents Dino Bardi and Manola Grassini.
  • Location: On permanent display in Room VII (Sala VII) of the museum complex, located in the former Augustinian convent in Certaldo Alto.

3. Library of the Hermitage of Camaldoli (Poppi, Arezzo) — Donated between 2014 and 2018

  • Collection Name: Bardi-Boccaccini Collection (Fondo Bardi-Boccaccini)
  • Description of Heritage: Over 3,000 rare antique books spanning from the 15th century to 1831, along with historic bronze and sealing wax matrices (tipari).
  • Historical Provenance: The private collection of Count Girolamo Mancini (1832–1924) of Cortona, an illustrious scholar. The assets were acquired by the Bardi family when they purchased the Linari estate (later Villa Bardi), where the books were housed, and inherited by Aloma Bardi from her parents Dino Bardi and Manola Grassini.
  • Location: Kept entirely within the vestibolo (entrance hall) of the ancient "Ambrogio Traversari" library.

4. Ferruccio Busoni Center for Musical Studies (Empoli, Florence) — Donated in 2018-2019

  • Collection Name: Walter Boccaccini Archive (Fondo Walter Boccaccini)
  • Description of Heritage: An important art collection and a rich gathering of opera set design sketches from productions directed by Walter Boccaccini, alongside director's notebooks, handwritten letters, historical costume designs, playbills, archival photographs, and press clippings documenting over 50 opera productions.
  • Historical Provenance: The private archives of opera director Walter Boccaccini (1927–1991), the long-standing General Secretary of the Teatro Comunale di Firenze and father of Gabriele Boccaccini.
  • Location: Housed in a dedicated exhibition room at the Museo Casa Busoni in Empoli.

5. Palazzo della Musica (Prato) — Donated in 2023-2024

  • Collection Name: ICAMus International Archive
  • Description of Heritage: Thousands of original musical scores, specialized books, essays on American music, and rare audio recordings.
  • Historical Provenance: The research assets of ICAMus (The International Center for American Music), founded and directed by Aloma Bardi in the United States.
  • Location: Formed the basis for the May 2024 inauguration of the "Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana" (American Music Center), the first and only permanent archive of its kind outside the United States.

2020s ~ 2020s ~ 2020s

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Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, already in March 2020 Boccaccini reacted by expanding the activities of the Enoch Seminar through the organization of a series on online meetings that gathered hundreds of participants from all over the world.

In the Summer 2020, Boccaccini's book on Paul was published by Eerdmans, its Italian edition (revised and enlarged by the Author) came out in November 2021.

The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies appointed Boccaccini Head-Fellow of its 2021-22 theme Second Temple Judaism:The Challenge of Diversity.

Books

2020 (books)

2025 (books)

  • (with Giulio Mariotti), Paolo di Tarso, un ebreo del suo tempo (Roma: Carocci, 2025)

2024 (books)

  • Montespertoli che salvo' gli ebrei, 1943-44. Storie delle famiglie Sonnino, Milani, Manni e Pick in un comune della Toscana (Firenze: Leonardo Libri, 2024)

2022 (books)

  • Torah: Functions, Meanings, and Diverse Manifestations in Early Judaism and Christianity, ed. Schniedewind, Zurawski, Boccaccini (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2022).

2021 (books)

2020 (books)

Articles, Book Chapters

2026

  • "The Enoch Seminar: Twenty-Five Years of Scholarly Innovation and Collaborative Research"
  • "Paul and Pharisaic Judaism: Apocalyptic Influence and Intra-Jewish Reconfiguration"
  • {en} "A Case for Historical Fiction: Its Contribution to the Study of Second Temple Judaism" [forthcoming]

2025

  • "Paul within Judaism: Il Paolo ebreo di Mark Nanos, Panela Eisenbaum e Paula Fredriksen" [published]
  • {es/en} "Spanish-Portuguese Scholarship on Second Temple Judaism:A Survey of Studies from the Renaissance to the Present" [published]
  • {it} "Intervista su Paolo", in Riattivare Paolo [published]

2024

  • {it} "Paolo di Tarso, Israele e la salvezza inclusiva «in Cristo»", Studi ecumenici 3/4 (2024): 715-740

2023

  • {it} Alle origini del dialogo ebraico-cristiano in Italia: note storiche, Studi Ecumenici 41.3-4 (luglio-dicembre 2023), 707-731.
  • {en} Paul's Non-Supersessionist Theology, in Covenant and the People of God: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Kinzer, ed. Jonathan Kaplan, Jennifer Rosner, and David Rudolph, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2023)
  • {en} Justification and Salvation in Paul and Acts: A Reading within Second Temple Judaism, in Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries, ed. Frantisek Abel (Lanham: Lexington/Fortress, 2023)
  • {en} Earliest Enoch Commentaries before Laurence: Pompeo Sarnelli (1710) and Daniele Manin (1820), in Rediscovering Enoch? The Ancient Jewish Past from the 15th to 19th Century, ed. A. Hessayon, A. Yoshiko Reed, and G. Boccaccini (Leiden: Brill, 2023).

2022

  • {en} Torah and Apocalypticism in the Second Temple Period, in Torah: Functions, Meanings, and Diverse Manifestations in Early Judaism and Christianity, ed. Schniedewind, Zurawski, Boccaccini (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2022), 229-247.
  • {en} Italian Scholarship on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century / Fountains of Wisdom: In Conversation with James H. Charlesworth, ed. Gerbern Oegema, Henry Rietz, and Loren Stuckenbruck (London: T&T Clark, 2022), 501-514.

2021

  • {it} La "teologia della sostituzione" e gli insegnamenti di Paolo / SeFer 176 (Oct-Dec 2021), 3-5.
  • {it} Daniel / Bibbia dell'Amicizia, ed. Marco Cassuto Morselli and Giulio Michelini (Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Edizioni San Paolo, 2021), 96-104.
  • {it} La tradizione enochica: protologia ed escatologia / Filosofia e Teologia 1 (2021) 15-32
  • {en} Protology and Eschatology in the Enochic Traditions / Eschatology in Antiquity: Forms and Functions, ed. Hilary Marlow, Karla Pollmann, and Helen Van Noorden (London: Routledge, 2021), 171-183.
  • {en} What Does the Forgiving Jesus Have to Do with the Unforgiving Enoch? Forgiveness of Sins in the Enochic Traditions / Torah, Temple, Land : Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity, ed. Markus Witte, Jens Schröter, and Verena M. Lepper (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021), 157-172.
  • {en} Jewish Scholarship on the Second Temple Period: From the Renaissance to Albert I. Baumgarten / Social History of the Jews in Antiquity, ed. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and Jonathan Ben-Dov (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021), 3-20.
  • {it} Intervista a Gabriele Boccaccini / Riattivare il Gesu' storico, ed. Piotr Zygulski e Federico Adinolfi, Nipoti di Maritain 5.10 (2021): 229-233.

YouTube videos

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2020

Summary of events: Organized International Conferences, lectures, etc.

2026 (events)

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  • Jun 2026 -- Rome, italy -- Nangeroni Meeting on Early Christology
  • <> May 29, 2026 (Fri) -- Prato, Italy -- ICAMus Book Presentation with Aloma Bardi and Luca Bragalini: "Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions"
  • <> May 25, 2026 (Mon) -- Florence, Italy (Lyceum) -- ICAMus Lecture-Concert by Aloma Bardi and Beniamino Iozzelli: "Samuel Barber" (6pm)
  • <> May 9, 2026 (Sat) -- Prato, Italy (Palazzo della Musica, Sala delle Colonne) -- ICAMus Concert by Tessa Romano: "Copland, Barber, Price" (5pm)
  • Apr 13-14-15, 2026 -- Rome, Italy (Waldensian School of Theology) -- Conference on "Paolo e l'inclusione dei gentili"
  • <> Apr 11, 2026 (Sat) -- Prato, Italy -- ICAMus Lecture-Concert by Chiara Sintoni: "Notturno americano"
  • <> Mar 28, 2026 (Sat) -- Prato, Italy -- ICAMus Lecture-Concert by Aloma Bardi and Beniamino Iozzelli: Charles Ives's Essays before a Sonata and Concord Sonata
  • <> Feb 27, 2026 (Fri) -- Prato, Italy -- ICAMus Lecture-Recital by Lilai Nan.
  • Feb 16, 2026 -- Online (BIBLIA) -- Lecture on "Giacomo, il «fratello del Signore»"

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2025 (events)

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  • Dec 5, 2025 (Fri) -- online (ABSI) -- Lecture (with Giulio Mariotti): "Paolo nel Nuovo Testamento"
  • Nov 11, 2025 (Fri) -- online (ABSI) -- Lecture: "Giudaismo ellenistico e diaspore"
  • Sep 15-17, 2025 -- online (Enoch Seminar) -- Reading the New Testament within Judaism? (II)
  • Sep 5, 2025 -- Judaic Studies, Rackham -- Welcome Lucheon (12pm) // MES Picnic (Island Park) 3-5pm
  • Sep 4, 2025 -- Online (Trento) -- Book presentation with Giulio Mariotti and don Stefano Zeni (12:30pm)
  • == == == Jul 8-9, 2025 -- Flight to Detroit, MI (Ann Arbor) (Florence-Zurich-Paris [night at IBIS Hotel]-Detroit)
  • Jun 31 - Jul 4, 2025 -- Conference (Camaldoli, Italy) -- 4^ settimana di Studi internazionali sull'ebraismo italiano
  • Jun 28, 2025 -- Conference + Lecture, online (Palazzolo Acireale, Sicily, Italy) -- Lecture: "L'estasi di San Paolo: esperienza mistica di un ebreo apocalittico seguace di Gesu'" at the conference "Fino al terzo cielo: Rapimenti mistici e viusioni ultraterrene tra ebraismo, cristianesimo e islam" (Chair: Angelo Iacovella). Discussion Panel with Massimo Giuliani e Ida Zilio-Grandi.
  • Jun 26, 25 -- Book Presentation (Camaldoli, Italy) -- Book Presentation of "Riattivare Paolo di Tarso" (with the editors Piotr Zygulski, Federico Adinolfi, and Giulio Mariotti, and Card. Tolentino de Mendosa)
  • << Jun 25, 2025 -- Uppsala, Sweden -- Book review session organized by the Enoch Seminar at the International SBL Meeting. Cecilia Wassen (chair), speakers (Outi Lehtipuu, John Kampen, Petri Luomanen) and editors of the volume "Within. Judaism?" (Karin Zetterholm and Anders Runesson).
  • Jun 22-26, 25 -- Conference (Gazzada, Italy) -- 16th Nangeroni Meeting on God's Body: Divine Embodiment
  • Jun 15-17, 25 -- Lecture + Book Presentation (Bologna, Italy) -- Seminar on the Origin of Evil with Israel Knohl. Book presentation with Giulio Mariotti, Miriam Benfatto, Emiliano Urciuoli e Alberto Melloni.
  • Jun 14, 2025 -- Montespertoli, Italy -- In memory of Manola Bardi
  • Jun 2025 -- II print of our volume on Paul: Paolo di Tarso, un ebreo del suo tempo (Carocci)
  • Jun 10-12, 2025 -- Conference, online -- Enoch Seminar online conference on Reading the New Testament within Judaism? (sessions on Paul, the Gospel of Mark, and Revelation).
  • Jun 5, 2025 -- Video, online -- Interview with Uruguay (with Giulio Mariotti)
  • May 30, 2025 -- Book presentation (Rome, Italy) -- Book presentation at the University of Roma La Sapienza, with Giulio Mariotti, Alberto Camplani, Gaetano Lettieri, Francesco Benno, Daniele Minisini, Eric Noffke (and Giovanni Ibba).
  • May 27, 2025 -- Lecture (Prato, Italy) -- ICAMus event: The Bible in American Music (with Aloma Bardi and Simonetta Heger). My Lecture on The Stories of Josephus: History and Reception
  • May 26, 2025 -- Concert (Firenze, Italy) -- Concert by Simonetta Heger
  • May 24, 2025 -- radio -- Interview on Radio3: "Uomini e Prefeti. Paolo di Tarso: tra cristianesimo e giudaismo" (with Giulio Mariotti)
  • May 21-22, 2025 -- Trieste, Italy -- Book presentation at the Jewish Museum (with Giulio Mariotti) Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls with Corrado Martone, Giovanni Ibba, Giulio Mariotti...
  • Apr 14, 2025 -- attendance (Florence, Italy) -- Concert at Lyceum. Beniamino Iozzelli, Charles Ives's Piano Sonata n.1
  • Apr 9, 2025 -- video -- Book Presentation (with Giulio Mariotti) on "Bella, prof!": "l'invenzione del Paolo antigiudaico"
  • Apr 7, 2025 -- Holocaust Memorial, Milan, Italy -- Visit to the CDEC and meeting with Gadi Luzzatto.
  • Apr 6, 2025 -- Milan, Italy -- Lecture on Paul at via Sambuco.
  • Apr 5, 2025 -- video -- Interview with Märv Medardo (Uruguay)
  • Mar 28-29, 2025 -- Florence, Italy -- BIBLIA conference "Davide, Golia, Betsabea" -- Attendance and chairing a session
  • Mar 25 -- Publication of the new volume on Paul (with Giulio Mariotti): Paolo di Tarso, un ebreo del suo tempo (Carocci)
  • Mar 24-26, 2025 -- online attendance -- Conference in honor of Ben Wright.
  • Mar 17 & 19, 2025 -- online -- Two lessons on Enoch (Eric Noffke's course) at the Waldensian School of Theology.
  • Feb 28, 2025 -- Prato, Italy -- Attendance -- Lecture on Gershwin's Rapsody in Blue with Psaolo Somigli and LiLai Nan.
  • Feb 26-28, 2025 -- Conference + Lecture (Rome, Italy) -- Lecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza on John's Prologue (Alberto Camplani's course) -- Conference in Rome organized by the Card. Bea Center: "Nostra Aetate and the Rediscovery of the Jewish Jesus" (with Massimo Gargiulo, Anders Runesson, Adele Reinhartz, ecc. My Lecture on Paul.
  • Feb 16, 2025 -- online (Trieste, Italy) -- Lecture "James Bruce: un aarcheologo-viaggiarore alla riscoperta di antichi testi Ebraici in Etiopia"
  • == == == Feb 2025 -- Flight to Florence, Italy
  • Jan 26, 2025 -- Lecture, online (Montespertoli, Italy) -- Giorno della Memoria. Panel: "Cos'e' l'antisemitismo?" (with Enrico Fink and Alessandra Tarquini)
  • Jan 7, 2025 -- Conference + Lecture, online -- Enoch Seminar online Colloquium on "Reading the New Testament within Judaism?"

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2024 (events)

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  • Dec 4, 2024 -- online -- "In Memory of Paolo Sacchi": an online celebration.
  • << Nov 24, 2024 -- San Diego, CA -- Enoch Seminar Reception at the SBL Meeting >>
  • Nov 13, 2024 -- Video, online -- YouTube video with "Bella, Prof!" on Paul of Tarsus according to Gianfranco Ravasi.
  • Nov 8, 2024 -- Book Presentation: Antonio Landi: "Luca:Introduzione e commento (with Eric Noffke and Antonio Landi)
  • << Nov 5, 2024 -- US Presidential Elections (Donald Trump elected president). >>
  • Oct 28, 2024 -- Ann Arbor, MI -- Meeting with Paula Fredriksen at Ann Arbor
  • Oct 14, 2024 -- online -- "Il libro di Enoc e il Libro di Daniele" -- Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini -- BIBLIA
  • Oct 4, 2024 -- online -- Did Paul Know Enoch Literature? A Reopened Question (online presentation at the Bertinoro Conference)
  • Sep 21, 2024 -- Art Museum, Detroit, MI -- Attestato di Benemerenza da parte della Presidenza Nazionale Centrale della Dante Alighieri in occasione delle celebrazioni per i cento anni di vita dell'Associazione nel Michigan
  • Sep 19, 2024 -- online -- Don Milani domani
  • Aug-Dec 2024 -- Ann Arbor, MI -- UofM Fall Term -- Two courses: "The Historical Jesus" & "History and Religion of Second Temple Judaism".
  • Jul-Aug 2024 -- Completion (with Giulio Mariotti) of our volume: "Paolo di Tarso, un ebreo del suo tempo"
  • Jul 10, 2024 -- Flight to Detroit, MI
  • Jul 1-5 -- Camaldoli, Italy -- Settimana dell'ebraismo italiano -- Book Presentation of my volume on Montespertoli (with Innocenzo Gargano and Gadi Luzzatto Voghera).
  • Jun 6, 2024 --
  • May 25, 2024 -- Trieste, Italy -- Conference on the Historical Jesus: "Chi era l'uomo Gesu'?" (with Adriano Virgili). My Lecture on Second Temple Judaism: Movimenti giudaici del I secolo"
  • May 18, 2024 -- Prato, Italy -- Inauguration of ICAMus.
  • Apr 23, 2024 -- Montespertoli, Italy -- Book Presentation: Cesare Badini, "Lorenzo prima di don Milani"
  • Apr 19, 2024 -- online -- Panel on "Nuove Prospettive di ricerca sui manoscritti del Mar Morto" (with Marcello Fidanzio, Corrado martone and Gabriele Boccaccini)
  • Mar 23, 2024 -- online (from Palermo) -- Lecture at the S. Bernardino Ecumenical Institute of Venice.
  • Mar 23-24, 2024 -- Palermo, Italy -- International Conference of "Reading the New Testament within Judaism" -- My lecture on
  • Mar 19, 2024 -- Montespertoli, Italy -- Introducing Mario Lancini and his book "Don Milani: vita di un profeta disobbediente"
  • Mar 18, 2024 -- Florence, italy -- Panel on Paul at the Istituto Avventista
  • Mar 16, 2024 -- Montespertoli, Italy -- Book presentation of my volume on "Montespertoli che salvo' gli ebrei" My lecture, introduced by Gabriella Maestri.
  • Feb 21, 2024 -- Rome, Italy -- "Le tre vie di salvezza di Paolo l'ebreo" -- Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini atth eParrocchia Santa Francesca Cabrini.
  • Feb 15, 2024 -- Florence, Italy -- Doctoral Defense of Giulio Mariotti
  • Jan 29 - Feb 1, 2024 -- Online (Enoch Seminar) -- Colloque francophone du Seminaire Enoch
  • Jan 28, 2024 -- Montespertoli, Italy -- Giorno della Memoria. My lecture. Panel with Marta Baiardi.
  • Jan 26, 2024 -- Gambassi & Montaione, Italy -- Per il Giorno della Meomoria.
  • Jan 24, 2024 -- video -- With "Bella, Prof!" : "La shoah: una storia italiana".
  • Jan 10, 2024 -- Flight to Florence, Italy

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2023 (events)

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  • Dec 1, 2023 -- online (Florence, Italy) -- Panel on don Angelo Chiaroni (with Paolo Sbolci, Giulio Conticelli, et al.)
  • Nov 24, 2023 -- Online (Venice, Italy) -- My lecture on "Paul the Jew"
  • Oct 27, 2023 -- Online -- Panel: "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict".
  • Oct 11, 2023 -- video ("Bella, Prof") -- "Paolo: che cosa sappiamo?"
  • << Oct 7, 2023 --- Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a large-scale, coordinated attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. >>
  • Sep 13, 2023 -- video ("Bella, prof!") -- "Il cristianesimo e' stato inventato da Paolo?"
  • Sep 6, 2023 -- online -- Book presentation of the volume: "Mishnah"
  • Aug-Dec 2023 -- Ann Arbor, MI -- UofM Fall Term -- Two courses: "The Historical Jesus" & "History and Religion of Second Temple Judaism".
  • Jul 18, 2023 -- Flight to Detroit, MI
  • Jul 3-7, 2023 -- Camaldoli, Italy -- "La musica e gli ebrei nell'Italia contemporanea" -- International conference on Italian-Jewish Studies; Camaldoli, Italy, July 2022
  • Jun 15, 2023 -- Florence, Italy -- Book review of Adriano Virgili's "Saulle tracce del Nazareno" (with Adriano Virgili). Salone San Tommadso d'Aquino, Santa Maria Novella.
  • << Jun 5-8, 2023 -- Nangerosni Meeting in Naples on the Sibylline Oracles.
  • Jun 5, 2023 -- In memory of don Milani (Festa del Vino, Montespertoli)
  • Apr 24-25, 2023 -- Flight to Florence, Italy
  • Apr 2, 2023 -- Birmingham, MI -- "Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967)" -- Panel with Nicola Terrenato -- Dante Alighieri Society, Michigan
  • Mar 29, 2023 -- online (Enoch Seminar) -- Colloquium in the Mishnah
  • Mar 27, 2023 -- online (BIBLIA) -- Lecture on Paul the Jew
  • Mar 14, 2023 -- online (Enoch Seminar) -- "John within Second Temple Judaism" -- International Colloquium.
  • Mar 1, 2023 -- online ("Bella, Prof!") -- YouTube video on Supercessionism.
  • Jan 29, 2023 -- online -- "Gli ebrei di Trecento": Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini (in Italian) -- Giorno della Memoria
  • Jan 25, 2023 -- online (MCECS) -- MLK's Lecture by Lisa Bowens
  • Jan-Apr 23 -- Ann Arbor, MI -- UofM Winter term -- Two courses, "Intro to the NT" and "The Jewish Child"

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2022 (events)

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  • Nov 19, 2022 -- Denver CO (SBL Meeting) -- ES Reception
  • Nov 18, 2022 -- Denver, CO -- "Paul within Judaism: A Non-supersessionist Approach to Pauline Theology" -- Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini -- SBL Meeting.
  • Sep 7, 2022 -- online -- Il Nuovo Testamento giudaico -- panel with Giovanni Ibbam and Giulio Mariotti at the AISH conference
  • Aug 27, 2022 -- online -- "Un apocrifo islamico-cristiano: il vaagelo di Barnaba" -- Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini -- BIBLIA, Convegno estivo
  • Jul 2022 -- Camaldoli, Italy -- "L’Abramo celeste, rivelatore del giudizio di Dio:�Il Testamento di Abramo" & "Il dibattito sulla fede e le opere di Abramo nel giudaismo del Secondo Tempio". -- Lectures by Gabriele Boccaccini Camaldoli. Settimana Biblica.
  • July 2022 -- Camaldoli, Italy -- "Donne ebree d'Italia" -- I Settimana Internazionale di Studi sull'ebraismo italiano / International conference on Italian-Jewish Studies; -- "Donne ebree d'Italia nella storiografia contemporanea",
  • June 2022 -- Rome, Italy -- "Luke-Acts Within Judaism" (Nangeroni Meeting)
  • May 3, 2022 -- Florence, Italy -- "Le tre vie di salvezza di Paolo ebreo" -- Book Presentation (with Federico Adinolfi, Joseph Levi, Gabriele Boccaccini, Paolo Sacchi)
  • Apr 19, 2022 -- Flight to Italy
  • Apr 12-13, 2022 -- online -- "Second Temple Judaism: Retrospect and Prospect" -- Hybrid Conference; Ann Arbor, MI,
  • Apr 5, 2022 -- online (BIBLIA) -- Lecture on the letters of Paul
  • Apr 4-5, 2022 -- Conference in Honor fo James Charlesworth. My Lecture.
  • March 17, 2022 -- online (Enoch Seminar) -- Presentation of Oegema's book on the OT Apocrypha.
  • March 17, 2022 -- online (Istituto San Bernardino) -- My lecture on the history of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue in italy.
  • March 14, 2022 -- online -- "Le tre vie di salvezza di Paolo ebreo" -- Book Presentation: Turin, Italy (online), and Florence, Italy, May 3 (in person).
  • Feb 28, 2022 -- Online (Orion Center) -- Conference
  • <> Feb 24, 2022 -- Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Feb 1, 2022 -- online (MCECS) -- Bragalini's second lecture
  • Jan 31/Feb 3, 2022 -- online -- "Perspectivas presentes y futura de los estudios sobre el judaísmo del Secundo Templo" (in Spanish/Portuguese) -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar (Gabriele Boccaccini, co-chair) -- Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini: "Spanish Scholarship on the Second Temple Period" (in Spanish & English, Feb 3, 2022)
  • Jan 30, 2022 -- online -- "Don Giulio Gradassi, giusto tra le nazioni" -- Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini (in Italian) -- Mntespertoli, Giorno della Memoria
  • Jan 27, 2022 -- online (MCECS) -- Bragalini's first lecture. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Black King of the Bible in Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Triptych “Three Black Kings”. My Lecture on the "Black King" in Christian Iconography.
  • Jan 10-13, 2022 -- online -- "Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies (co-chair)
  • Jan 9, 2022: Presentation online of Marco Morselli's book (ore 11am) con Innocenzo Gargano, Eric Noffke e Sandro Ventura.

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2021 (events)

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  • Dec 16, 2021: Book Launch (online, 10-11am EST): The Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls (with Steven Fraade, Timothy Lim, Vered Noam, Lawrence Schiffman).
  • Dec 13, 2021: Book Launch (online) of Parks/Sheinfeld/Warren's Book on women.
  • Dec 1, 2021 - My paper presentation at the Frankel Institute.
  • Nov 28, 2021 - Presentation of the second volume of Marco Morselli's commentary.
  • Nov 21, 2021 - <Pharisees Session>, organized by the Enoch Seminar at the SBL Meeting in San Antonio with AJ Levine e Joseph Sievers by the Enoch Seminar.
  • Nov 19, 2021 -- "Luke and Acts With(in) Second Temple Judaism" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.
  • Nov 17, 2021 -- Shayna Sheinfeld’s Padnos Lecture on Jewish Matronage
  • Nov 15, 2021 - <Ann Arbor> <Frankel Institute> Meeting with Lawrence Schiffman (online)
  • Nov 8, 2021 : <Ann Arbor> <Frankel Institute> Meeting with Adele Reinhartz (online)
  • Nov 4 2021 : COVID vaccination at Ypsilanti
  • Nov 1, 2021 : <Ann Arbor> <Frankel Institute> Online meeting with Annette Reed.
  • Oct 31, 2021 : Trip to Kensington Metropark
  • Ott 31, 2021 -- online -- Presentation of Marco Morselli's commentary
  • Oct 25-27, 2021 -- online -- "Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies. -- Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini: ""Justification and Salvation in Paul" (Oct 26).
  • Oct 18, 2021 -- online (Frankel Institute) -- Meeting with Lester Grabbe.
  • Oct 12 & 16, 2021 -- "Introduzione alle letterature apocrifa giudaica/primo-testamentaria" -- a 8-hour mini-course by Gabriele Boccaccini -- Organized by the Italian-Swiss Biblical Association. <online>
  • Oct 11-12, 2021 -- "Christianity and Science Fiction" -- Online Conference, organized by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, in collaboration with the Enoch Seminar.
  • Oct 6, 2021 -- online (Frankel Institute) -- Meeting with Shaye Cohen
  • Oct 5, 2021 -- Bus Tour to Jewish Detroit with Stanley Frankel.
  • Book Presentation : Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet by Cecilia Wassen, with Amy-Jill Levine, James Crossely, Gabriele Boccaccini [available online]. <online>
  • Sep 30, 2021 -- online -- "The Three Path to Salvation of Paul the Jew": Book presentation (with Lisa Bowens, Cecila Wassen, Matthew Novenson, Isaac Oliver, and Emma Wasserman; Joshua Scott, chair).
  • Sep 8, 2021 -- Surgery (Livonia)
  • Sep 1, 2021 - I am Head Fellow at the Frankel Institute.
  • Aug 15, 2021 - Trip to Barton Pond
  • << Aug 1, 2021 : Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy won the gold medal in the men's 100-meter dash at the Tokyo Olympics. >>
  • Jul 18-22, 2021 -- "Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar.
  • << July 11, 2021 -- Italy soccer team defeated England in the Euro final, winning the championship after a penalty shootout. >>
  • Jun 17, 2021 -- online -- Book Presentation : Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet by Cecilia Wassen, con Amy-Jill Levine, James Crossely, Gabriele Boccaccini (ed interventi di Federico Adinolfi, Paula Fredriksen e Chris Keith) [available online].
  • Jun 7 & 9, 2021 -- online -- "La divinita' del Cristo: Come e quando Gesu' divenne Dio" -- Two lectures by Gabriele Boccaccini.
  • May 23-27, 2021 -- "Apocalyticism: History, Method, Reception" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the University of Munich, Germany. -- Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini: "Apocalypticism, Origin of Evil, Forgiveness of Sins" (May 25)
  • Apr 29-30, 2021 -- "Eighth Enoch Graduate Seminar" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar.
  • Apr 15, 2021 -- online colloquium (MCECS) -- "Christianity in Science Fiction" (James McGrath)
  • Apr 6, 2021 -- COVID vaccination (J&J Johnson) at Chelsea.
  • Mar 22, 2021 -- "Who Is My John the Baptist?" -- Freedman Panel organized by the Dept. of Middle East Studies (with Gabriele Boccaccini) <online>
  • Mar 10, 2021 -- "The Historical Jesus in His Historical Context" -- A conversation with Gabriele Boccaccini and Amy-Jill Levine -- Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event, organized by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies <online>
  • Feb 25, 2021 -- online (MCECS) -- Lecture by Sherley Perlove on “Treasures of Religious Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts”.
  • Feb 23 – Mar 11, 2021 -- online (Facebook) -- series of 15 post on the history of research on the Paul the Jew.
  • Jan 27, 2021 -- "La Montespertoli che salvo' gli ebrei" -- Online Lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini, organized by the City of Montespertoli, Italy -- International Holocaust Memorial Day <online>
  • Jan 11-14, 2021 -- "John the Baptist Nangeroni Meeting" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (Gabriele Boccaccini, chair). --
  • Jan-Apr, 2021 -- online teaching -- "Intro to the New Testament" and "The Jewish Child"
  • <> Jan 6, 2021 -- USA -- An angry mob stormed the US Capitol Building in Washington DC.

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2020 (events)

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  • Dec 16, 2020 -- online -- Lecture on Second Temple Judaism to the students of the University of Lugano, Switzerland.
  • Nov 11-12, 2020 -- "Fourth Enoch Seminar Colloquium" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar (Gabriele Boccaccini, chair)
  • << Nov 3, 2020 -- US Presidential Elections (Joe Biden elected president). >>
  • Oct 20-22, 2020 -- "Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch" -- Online Conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. (Gabriele Boccaccini, chair)
  • Sep-Dec, 2020 -- Online teaching: "The Historical Jesus" and "The Partings of the Ways"
  • Aug 31, 2020 -- "Le religioni salveranno il mondo" -- An online lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini, organized by the City of Montespertoli, Italy.
  • Aug 27, 2020 -- online (BIBLIA) -- "La Preghiera di Gesu': Liberaci dal male" -- An online lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini and panel with Lidia Maggi and Guido Armellini
  • Jun 29-Jul 2, 2020 -- online, Enoch Seminar) -- "Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins" -- Online Conference organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies (Gabriele Boccaccini, chair)
  • <> May 25, 2020 -- Death of George Floyd at Minneapolis: "Black Lives Matter".
  • May 11-29, 2020 -- online (Karios, Storia del cristianesimo) -- "Paul the Jew and Paul the Christian" -- A series of 6 online lectures by Gabriele Boccaccini, organized by the Facebook Group "Storia del cristianesimo".
    • "Paolo l'apostolo dei gentili]" (May 29, 2020)
    • "Giustificazione e salvezza: quale rapporto?" (May 25, 2020)
    • "La cristologia di Paolo" (May 22, 2020)
    • "Paolo e l'apocalittica giudaica" (May 18, 2020)
    • "La cosiddetta conversione di Paolo" (May 15, 2020)
    • "Il dibattito odierno su Paolo" (May 11, 2020)
  • Apr 28, 2020 -- "Il perdono dei peccati nella tradizione enochica e nel primo cristianesimo" -- Online lecture by Gabriele Boccaccini, organized by the University of Naples L'Orientale.
  • March 2020 -- Covid Lockdown
  • Jan 26, 2020 -- Birmingham MI -- "Gino Bartali: The Invisible Hero" (lecture by Gina Bartali)
  • Jan 23, 2020 -- Ann Arbor -- "Echoes of the Exodus in King's Work" (lecture by Brian Roby)
  • Jan-May, 2020 -- Teaching (from March, online due to COVID): "Intro to NT" and "The Jewish Child" + AP Italian class (with Nico Pasquariello, Claudia Minetti, James, e Leonardo)

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2010s ~ 2010s ~ 2010s

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The Flourishing of the Enoch Seminar

In 2011 the Enoch Seminar received a major endowment from the Alessandro Nangeroni Foundation. It could then expand its activities to Christian and Islamic origins. Boccaccini left the direction of the Journal Henoch and devoted all his energies to the Enoch Seminar, being now able to organize several meetings every year and produce numerous edited volumes.

Boccaccini's interests of research also expanded to include the New Testament, with the major goal of re-understanding the protagonists of the early Jesus movements (Jesus, Paul, John, etc.) as Second Temple Jewish authors.

His book on Paul represent the synthesis of his work in the 2010s, together with 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism <www.4enoch.org>.

He was an invited speakers, offering lectures in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, and the United States.

New students entered the PhD program in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins at the University of Michigan: Deborah Forger, Rodney Caruthers, and Joshua Scott.

In 2014-2018, Gabriele Boccaccini and his wife Aloma Bardi donated to the library of the Eremo of Camaldoli the collection of 3,000 ancient books they inherited from the Bardi family, an historical collection that belonged to the count Girolamo Mancini (1842-1924).

Festschrift

Books

2014 (books)

2012 (books)

2010 (books)

Edited volumes

2019 (edited volumes)

2018 (edited volumes)

2017 (edited volumes)

2016 (edited volumes)

2014 (edited volumes)

2013 (edited volumes)

2012 (edited volumes)

Journal Henoch Monograph Issues, 2005-2011 (as editor-in-chief)

  • Henoch 33.2 (2011) -- Across the Jewish-Christian Divide: Perspectives from the Enoch Graduate Seminar of Budapest
  • Henoch 33.1 (2011) -- Enochic Traditions and Mediatorial Figures in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Early Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam
  • Henoch 32.2 (2010) -- The Historical Jesus: Contemporary Interpreters and New Perspectives.
  • Henoch 32.1 (2010) -- Ancient Judaism and Christianity in Their Graeco-Roman Context: French Perspectives

Articles (selected)

2014
2014
2013
2012
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Joshua Scott
Rodney Caruthers
Deborah Forger

2019 (articles)

  • {en} Enochic Traditions / A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission, ed. Alexander Kulik, Gabriele Boccaccini, et al. (New York: University of Oxford Press, 2019), 383-416.

2018 (articles)

  • {en} From Jewish Prophet to Jewish God: How John Made the Divine Jesus Uncreated / Reading the Gospel of John's Christology as Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs, ed. Benjamin E. Reynolds and Gabriele Boccaccini (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 335-357.
  • {en} James Bruce’s 'Fourth' Manuscript: Solving the Mystery of the Provenance of the Roman Enoch Manuscript (Vat. et. 71) / Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 27.4 (2018): 237-263.
  • {it} Luigi Ferri: il bambino scomparso di Auschwitz / The New Italy & the Jews: From Massimo D'Azeglio to Primo Levi, ed. Jonathan Druker and L. Scott Lerner, Annali d'Italianistica 36 (2018), 351-374.
  • {it} Eresia? Una prospettiva ebraica <Heresy? From a Jewish Perspective> / Eresia / Eresie, CredereOggi 226 (July/August 2018), 23-39.

2017 (articles)

  • {it} Le origini cristiane e il perdono dei peccati tra essenismo ed enochismo / Gesù e le prime comunità cristiane. Tra storia e teologia, ed. Alessandro Cortesi e Giovanni Ibba (Florence: Nerbini, 2017), 55-70.

2016 (articles)

  • {en} How Jesus Became Uncreated / Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy, ed. Joel Baden, Hindy Najman, and Eibert Tigchelaar (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 185-209.

2014 (articles)

  • {en} Some Brief Notes on the Early History of the Deuterocanonici / Canonicity, Setting, Wisdom in the Deuterocanonicals, ed. Géza G. Xeravits, Xavér Szabó, and József Zsengellér (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 19-28.

2013 (articles)

2012 (articles)

2011 (articles)

2010 (articles)

Lectures

2019 (lectures)

  • Lecture on Jewish Messianism at Rome
  • Lecture on Enoch Commentaries at Florence
  • Lectures on Jewish Messianism at Camaldoli
  • Lectures on the OT Pseudepigrapha at Vallombrosa

2018 (lectures)

  • "Women's Contribution to Second Temple Studies" - Rome, Italy - June 2018
  • "The Memory of the Exodus in Jewish and Christian Traditions" - Camaldoli, Italy - July 2018
  • "Moses, a Man for All Seasons" - Camaldoli, Italy - July 2018
  • Lecture on Encoh in Berlin
  • Lecture on Paul at Bratislava
  • Lecture on Paul at Denver

2017 (lectures)

  • A Missing Link: Forgiveness of Sins in the Parables of Enoch and in the Synoptics - Opening Session SBL Regional Spotlight - SBL MIdwest Meeting - Notre Dame, IN; Saint Mary's College, 10 February 2017
  • "Jesus and Enochic Judaism" - Skype Lecture to the class of Prof. Carlos Segovia - Madrid, Spain; Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus, 28 March 2017
  • Torah and Apocalypticism in Second Temple Judaism - 9th Enoch Seminar - Camaldoli, Italy - June 2017
  • Paul the Jew - Series of lectures during the tour organized by BIBLIA in Norway and Sweden - June 23 - July 5, 2017
  • I salmi apocrifi della tradizione giudaica <The Apocryphal Psalms> - Camaldoli, Italy - July 13, 2017

2016 (lectures)

  • "Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in the Gospel of John and in Bach's St. John Passion" / A lecture, organized by the Michigan Centre of Early Christian Studies and the University Musical Society / Ann Arbor, MI; March 15, 2016
  • How Jesus Became Uncreated - Paper presented at the Nangeroni Meeting - Camaldoli, June 2016
  • Two lectures on the Gospel of Matthew at the XXXV Settimana Biblica 2016 / Camaldoli, 10-15 luglio 2016
  • Jesus and Enochic Judaism" - Lecture / Luteren, Netherlands; 7 November 2016
  • Paul the Jew - Lecture / Amsterdam, Netherlands; 9 November 2016

2015 (lectures)

  • Sacrifices and Spatial Practices: A Response to Mira Balberg and Gil Klein / A panel at the Symposium Jews and the Empire: Beyond Resistence/Accommodation Paradigm, organized by the Frankel Institute at the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, MI: Kelsey Museum, February 9, 2015
  • Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity? Fourth Nangeroni Meeting / Co-organizer and co-chair of the conference / Gazzada, Milan, Italy; June 15-19, 2015.
  • Apocalytpticism and Mysticism. Eighth Enoch Seminar / Co-organizer, co-chair and respondent at the conference / Gazzada, Milan, Italy; June 21-26, 2015.
  • Shaùl/Paul: The Apostle to the Gentiles as a Central Topic / Annual Meeting of the International Council of Christians and Jews / A panel with Philip A. Cunningham and Adam Gregerman, moderated by Dick Pruiksma / Rome, Italy; June 30, 2015.
  • Second Temple Jewish Paideia in its Ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic Contexts. Fifth Nangeroni Meeting / Co-organizer, co-chair and respondent at the conference / Naples, Italy; June 30-July 4, 2015.
  • Gesù, Israele e i gentili nel contesto del Secondo Tempio, and La missione ai gentili al tempo di Matteo nella chiesa delle origini / Two lectures at the XXXIV Settimana Biblica 2015 / Camaldoli, Italy; July 13-14, 2015
  • The Gospel of Matthew as a Second Temple Jewish Document / A three-day seminar / Bologna, Italy; August 28-30, 2015

2014 (lectures)

  • The Transmission history of Enochic Traditions from the 2nd to the 19th Century / A paper at the Second Nangeroni Meeting / Dor, Israel, June 2014
  • Paul the Jew / A panel with Daniel Boyarin, Romano Penna and Piero Stefani, organized by the Card. Bea Center for Judaic Studies of the Pontifical Gregorian University at the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Biblical Institute / Rome, Italy, July 2014
  • The Mount Sermon in the Jewish Literature of the Second Temple / A lecture at the XXXIII Settimana Biblica 2014 / Camaldoli, Italy, July 17, 2014
  • The Apocalypse of Abraham: A Response to Andrei Orlov / A panel at the Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature / San Diego, CA, November 2014

2013 (lectures)

  • Some Brief Notes on the Early History of the Deuterocanonici: A Response to John Collins" / 10th Meeting: A Jubilary Meeting: Aspects of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature / Budapest [Hungary], 4-6 June 2013
  • Forgiveness of Sins: An Enochic Problem, a Synoptic Answer / 7th Enoch Seminar on Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels / Camaldoli [Italy], luglio 2013
  • Jesus from a Jewish Perspectives / A panel on the Historical Jesus with Saeed Ahmed Khan (Wayne State University), Charles Mabee (Oakland University), and Robert M. Price / Dearborn [United States], Nov 27, 2013
  • The Importance of Enochic Judaism for an Appraisal of Second Temple Judaism / A public lecture at the University of Aarhus, Denmark / Aarhus, Denmark, Dec 13
  • The Relationship between Enochic Judaism and Apocalypticism / A panel with Loren T. Stuckenbruck at the University of Aarhus, Denmark / Aarhus, Denmark, Dec 13
  • From the Unforgiving Enoch to the Forgiven Son of man: Developments of Thought from Enochic Judaism to Christianity / A paper at the Enoch Conference organized by the Freie Univertaet Berlin / Berlin, Germany, Dec 18, 2013

2012 (lectures)

  • Non‐Apocalyptic Responses to Apocalyptic Events: Notes on the Sociology of Apocalypticism / 1st Nangeroni Meeting on The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview / Gazzada, Milan [Italy], June 26, 2012

2011 (lectures)

  • Human, Angel, or God? Jewish Roots of Christian Messianism / Lecture and Seminar at the University of Pittsburgh. Chair: Jason von Ehrenkrook (University of Pittsburgh); Respondent: Dale C. Allison (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) / Pittsburgh, PA, April 6, 2011
  • Il Gesù ebreo e il Gesù storico / Lecture at the University of Rome / Rome [Italy], May 5, 2011
  • Paolo ebreo / Seminar at the University of Rome / Rome [Italy], May 5, 2011

2010 (lectures)

  • Uomo, angelo, o Dio? Le radici giudaiche dell'identità messianica di Gesù / Mini-course in four lessons at the Catholic University of Milan / Milan [Italy], May 11-12, and 18-19, 2010

Events

2019 (events)

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  • Rodney Caruthers's Dissertation Defence (Dec 14, 2018)
  • Amahl by Giancarlo Menotti. Opera at the Gross Point War Memorial (Dec 9, 2018)
  • 2nd Enoch Colloquium, and SBL Meeting (Denver, CO; November 15-21, 2018). Enoch Colloquium on Paolo the Jew with Mark Nanos and presentation of my Festschrift. Visit of the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of the American West.
  • Candide by Bernstein. Operra at the Power Center (Nov 8 & 10, 2018)
  • Paul Conference (Bratislava, Slovakia; October 24-28, 2018) -- My lecture on “The Message of Paul the Apostle within Second Temple Judaism”. Visit of the Castle and the Jewish cemetery.
  • Second Temple Judaism Conference (Berlin, Germany; October 5-11, 2018). My lecture on Enoch. Visit of Berlin Museums and the Jewish Museum.
  • Aug 30, 2018 (Italy to USA flight)
  • BIBLIA Meeting on the Gospel of John (Porretta, Italy; August 26-28, 2018)
  • Presentation of Cino Ferri's painting at Certaldo (Aug 24, 2018)
  • <> Mrandi Bridge Collpase (Genoa) (Aug 1, 2018)
  • 7th Enoch Graduate Seminar (Lausanne, Switzerland; Jul 26-29, 2018)
  • Settimana Biblica (Camaldoli, Italy; July 2019)
  • Inauguration of Our Donation of the Linari Collection of 3,000 ancient books to the Library of the Eremo of Camaldoli (Jul 14, 2018)
  • <> Tham Luang Cave Rescue (Tailandia) (Jun 23-Jul 10, 2018)
  • 10th Nangeroni Meeting on Gender (Rome, Italy; June 17-21, 2018). Panel on “Jewish Jesus Research and Questions on Christology”. Visit of the Jewish Catacombs.
  • 9th Nangeroni Meeting on the Maccabees (Gazzada, Milan, Italy; June 10-15, 2018)
  • 2018 (USA to Italy flight)
  • With Enrico and Daniele at Detroit ARt Museum and the Dearborn Arab-American Museum (end of April)
  • Death of J. Harold Ellens (Apr 14, 2018)
  • Easter Lunch at Silvia's (with Daniele Minisini) (Apr 1, 2018)
  • 60th Birthday (Mar 24, 2018) -- "March for Our Lives" and Birthday Party.
  • Porgy & Bess in Concert (Hill Auditorium, Feb 17, 2018)
  • Concert at Temple Beth El with Davide Casali (Holocaust Memorial Day, Jan 29, 2018)
  • UofM Teaching (Jan-Apr 2018): "Intro to NT and “Women in Second Temple Judaism”. Daniele Minisini spends a term in Ann Arbor. -- At Scuola Arcobaleno I treach a class for middle-school children (Nico, James, Claudia, Matteo) and on Sundays I prepare 8 High School teenagers to the Italian AP (Jordan, Delia, Carlo, Giulia, Alessio, Lara, Danny, Oriana).
  • My mother's death (Jan 1, 2018). In Florence for the funeral (Jan 4)

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2017 (events)

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  • 1st Enoch Colloquium at Harvard and SBL Meeting (Boston; Nov 2017). Festschrift to Michael Stone.
  • Trip to Kensington Metropark (Oct 26, 2017)
  • UofM Teaching: "The Historical Jesus and A Seminar on Paul -- Italian class at Honey Creek (Claudia, Matteo, Nico e James).
  • Flight to the United States (Aug 30, 2017)
  • Settimana Biblica (Camaldoli, Italy; July 2017)
  • Journey to Sweden and Norway (with BIBLIA) (June, 2017)
  • 9th Enoch Seminar on Jewish Paideia (Camaldoli, Italy;
  • 8th Nangeroni Meeting on Early Islam (Pratolino, Florence, Italy; June 12-16, 2017)
  • Winona by Bimboni (Florence, Conservatorio Cherubini; Jun 1, 2017)
  • Flight to Italy (May 10-11, 2017
  • Deborah Forger's Dissertation Defence (May 4, 2017)
  • Commencement. Romina's Graduation (Football Stadium; May 1, 2017)
  • Puccini's La fanciulla del West (Detroit Opera House; Apr 1, 2017) with Silvia and David Giorgini.
  • Online Lecture with Carlos Segovia in Madrid (Mar 28, 2017)
  • Beethoven's Missa Solemnis (conducted by Scott Hanoian) (Hill Auditorium; Mar 11, 2017)
  • SBL Regional Meeting (Notre Dame, IN; Feb 10, 2017). With Joshua Scott. My lecture introduced by Jim VanderKam.
  • Recital of Caroline Helton and Katrhyn Goodman at Temple Beth El (Holocaust Memorial Day; Jan 29, 2017)
  • Enoch Seminar Newsletter: First Issue (Jan 26, 2017; ed. Jason von Ehrenkrook)
  • “The Phantom of the Opera (Detroit Opera House; Jan 22, 2017)
  • UofM Teaching: "Intro to NT" and a Seminar on Jewish Messianism. At Honey Creek I teach a class with middle-school children (Claudia, Nico, Matteo e James). Alla On Sundays I prepare a group of 6 teeenagers for the AP Italian (Anna, Aurelio, Cristina, Marco, Giancarlo, Giuliana).

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2016 (events)

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  • Haendel Messiah (Hill Auditorium; Dec 4, 2016)
  • Pre-concert event on the Messiah of Haendel with Scott Hanoian (Dec 2, 2016)
  • Paul Conference (Amsterdam, Netherlands; Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2016) -- Two lectures -- Visit of Amsterdam -- Musical Ciske de Rat
  • Carmer (Detroit Opera House; Oct 15, 2016)
  • Dinner with Valerio Galli at Silvia's (Oct 14, 2016)
  • Death od Jacob Neusner (1932-2016) (Oct 6, 2016)
  • Ceremony in memory of the Italian victims of the 1901 train crash (Adrian MI; Sep 24, 2016)
  • UofM Teaching (Two course: The Historical Jesus and a seminar) -- Teaching of Italian at Honey Creek.
  • Flight to the United States
  • Settimana Biblica on the Gospel of Matthew [II] (Camaldoli, Italy; July 2016)
  • 7th Nangeroni Meeting on "The Reception of Paul the Jew" (Rome, Italy; June 26-30, 2016) -- Visit at Villa Adriana.
  • <> Brexit (Jun 23, 2016)
  • 6th Nangeroni Meeting on the Gospel of John (Camaldoli, Italy; June 19-24, 2016)
  • VoluntarItaly (Mantova, Jun 17, 2016)
  • < 6th Enoch Graduate Seminar (Austin TX) (May 22-25, 2016) >
  • My lecture at the Facolta' Teologica di Careggi (invited by Giovanni Ibba) on "Second Temple Judaisms" (May 9, 2016)
  • Flight to Italy
  • Death of Padre Renato Simeone (1932-2016) (Apr 22, 2016)
  • My Lecture for the Michigan Center: "Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in the Gospel of John and in Bach's St. John Passion" (Mar 15, 2016)
  • Book publication: "The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview" (Feb 28, 2016)
  • My lecture on the Holocaust in Italy (Birmingham, MI; Feb 21, 2016)

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2015 (events)

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  • Christmas Lunch at Silvia's (Dec 25, 2015)
  • Haendel Messiah: Pre-concert Presentation (Gabriele Boccaccini, Lynne Kogel and Ralph Williams) and Performance at Hill Auditorium (Dec 5, 2015)
  • Walk to Barton Pond (Nov 15, 2015)
  • Launch of VoluntarItaly (Oct 21, 2015)
  • Death of Clara Kraus Reggiani (1919-2015) (Sep 16, 2015)
  • UofM Teaching (Sep-Dec 2015): "The Historical Jesus" and a Seminar. -- Italian class at Honey Creek (Jordan, Cristina, Delia, Nico, Claudia, Matteo)
  • Flight to the United States
  • Three-Day Matthew Course (Bologna, 2015) -- Visit of Marzabotto.
  • Settimana Biblica on the Gospel of Matthew [I] (Camaldoli, Italy, July 2015)
  • Donation of the first group of ancient books to the Library of Camaldoli
  • 5th Nangeroni Meeting on Jewish Paideia (Naples, Italy; June 30 - July 4, 2015)
  • ICCJ International Meeting (Rome; June 30, 2015) -- First Meeting with Pope Francis
  • 8th Enoch Seminar on “Apocalypticism and Mysticism” (Gazzada, Milan, Italy; June 21-26, 2015)
  • 4th Nangeroni Meeting on Early Islam (Gazzada, Milan, Italy; June 15-19, 2015)
  • ICAMus evants on Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Intersection (Jun 5, 2015) and concert-Conference at Lyceum (Jun 8, 2015)
  • Meeting with Luigi Ferri
  • University of Rome Doctoral Seminar (May 27, 2015)
  • Flight to Italy
  • Death of Rav Elio Toaff (1915-2015) (Apr 19, 2015)
  • My lecture on "The Italian Women and the Making of America” (Mar 8, 2015)
  • Mendelssohn's Ellijah: Pre-cpncert presentation at Thalor Bldg (Gabriele Boccaccini, Shelley Perlove and Ralph Williams) and performance at Hill Auditorium. (Feb 14, 2015)
  • Recital of Caroline Helton and Kathryn Goodson, at the School of Music (Jan 25, 2015) and Wayne University (Jan 27, 2015)
  • UofM Teaching (Jan-Apr 2015): "Intro to NT" and a Seminar -- Italian class at Honey Creek -- Italian AP (Beatrice, Chantal, Edwin, Giovanni, Giulia, Leonardo, Lorenzo, Luca, Nico)
  • Death of my cousin Filippo (Jan 1, 2015)

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2014 (events)

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  • Porgy and Bess. Opera (Chicago, Dec 11, 2014)
  • Rossini, Guglielmo Tell in concert, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda with the orchestra of the Teatro Regio di Torino (Hill Auditorium; Dec 9, 2014)
  • Inauguration of the Museo Amedeo Bassi at Montespertoli (Nov 30, 2014)
  • SBL Meeting (San Diego, CA; November 2014) -- Enoch Seminar Reception
  • UofM Teaching (Sep-Dec 2014): The Historical Jesus and a Seminar -- Italian Class at Honey Creek.
  • == == == Flight to the Unites States == == ==
  • 'Settimana Biblica (Camaldoli, Italy; July 2014) -- First conversation with Matteo Ferrari about the donation of the Linari Library. The following days don Ugo and don Ubaldo come to visit us in Montespertoli.
  • 3rd Nangeroni Meeting on Paul the Jew (Rome, Italy; June 22-26, 2014) -- Panel at the Pontifical Biblical Institute with Daniel Boyarin
  • 2nd Nangeroni Meeting (Dor, Israel; June 8-12, 2014) and Visit to Jerusalem(with Jason Zurawski and Samuele Rocca)
  • == == == Flight to Italy == == ==
  • 5th Enoch Graduate Seminar (Montreal, Canada; May 2014)
  • Mendelssohn Lecture (Ann Arbor, 14 Feb 2014)

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2013 (events)

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  • Journey to Denmark and Enoch Conference in Berlin (Dec 13-18, 2013)
  • Panel of the Historical Jesus with Robert M. Price (Nov 27, 2013)
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia. Opera (Power Center; Oct 2013)
  • Miss Saigon. Musical (Detroit, Fisher Theatre; Oct 5, 2013)
  • UofM Teaching: "The Historical Jesus and a seminar. -- Italian Class at Honey Creek
  • Flight to the United States
  • Comunità del Sambuco Meeting (Alpe di Motta; Jul 27 - Aug 3, 2013) [3]
  • 7th Enoch Seminar on “Enochic Influences on the Synoptic Gospels” (Camaldoli, Italy; Jul 21-26, 2013)
  • "'Meeting on the Deuterocanonical Books (Budapest, Hungary; Jun 4-6, 2013) and Visit to Praga (with Aloma)
  • Flight to Italy
  • <> Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) (Mar 13, 2013 to Apr 21, 2025)
  • The Lion King (Detroit Opera House (Feb 13 to March 10, 2013)
  • <> Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI (Feb 11, 2013)
  • UofM Teaching: "Intro to NT and a seminar. -- Italian Class at Honey Creek and AP class on Sundays (with mariella Mecozzi (Giacomo and Sofia pass the exam)

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2012 (events)

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  • Giulio Cesare. Opera (Detroit Opera House; Nov 2012)
  • Mary Poppins. Musical (Detroit; Fisher Theater, Oct 2012)
  • La Cage aux Folles. Musical (Detroit; Fisher Theater, Sep 2012)
  • Billy Elliot. Musical (Detroit; Fisher Theater, Sep 15, 2012)
  • UofM Teaching (Sep-Dec 2012) -- Italian class at Honey Creek
  • Flight to the United States
  • 1st Nangeroni Meeting on “The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldviews” (chair: Lester Grabbe) (Gazzada, Milan, Italy; June 25-29, 2012)
  • < 4th Enoch Graduate Seminar (Notre Dame, IN; Jun 18-20, 2012) >
  • Flight to italy (May 16-17, 2012)
  • Isaac Oliver's Defence (May 15, 2012)
  • AAIS Meeting (Charleston, SC; May 1-9, 2012)
  • End of my term as Director of the Jounral Henoch (Mar 5, 2012)
  • American Citizenship (Detroit; Mar 5, 2012)
  • Einstein on the Beach (Power Center; Jan 21, 2012)
  • <> Costa Concordia Disaster (Isola del Giglio; Jan 13, 2012)
  • Jan 8, 2012 : Rembrandt Exhibit (Detroit Art Museum) (Jan 8, 2012)
  • UofM Teaching (Jan-Apr 2012): "The Historical Jesus" and a Seminar on the Development of Early Christology. -- Italian class at Honey Creek (Giuliana, Carlo, Jordan, Nicolas, Marco, Cristina, and for the first time, Letizia) -- AP class on Sundays (Romina, Dario, Nico, Matteo A., (Matteo T.), Giacomo, Niki, (Vishal), Luca, Edwin, Camilla, cui alla fine si aggiungono anche Matteo e Alessandro da Birmingham. Tre di loro fanno l’esame AP (Matteo, Nicki e Romina).

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2011 (events)

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  • Italian school at Honey Creek (Jordan, Giuliana, Carlo, Nicolas, Marco, e Cristina) -- AP class on Sundays
  • 6th Enoch Seminar on 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch (Gazzada, Milan, Italy; June 2011)

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2010 (events)

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  • Death of Jan Alberto Soggin (1926-2010) (Oct 27, 2010)
  • Death of Francesco Adorno (1921-2010) (Sep 19, 2010)
  • UofM Teaching: "Jesus & the Gospels" and Graduate Course
  • == == == Flight to the United States == == ==
  • EASJ International Meeting (Ravenna, Italy; July 25-29, 2010)
  • 3rd Enoch Graduate Seminar (Budapest, Hungary; July 19-24, 2010)
  • Trip to Germany (early July 2010)
  • Lectures in Milan (May 2010)
  • == == == Flight to Italy == == ==
  • Pres. Obama at UofM Commencement (May 1, 2010)
  • Symposium in Honor of Ralph Williams on His Retirement (Apr 10, 2010) -- My lecture: "Beliefs are Facts, Too! Teaching Thoeology Historically in a Secular, Multi-Religious Environment"
  • Death of Hanan Eshel (1958-2010) (Apr 8, 2010)
  • Death of my mother-in-law, Manola Grassini (Montespertoli, Jan 19, 2010)
  • UofM Teaching: "Intro to NT" and graduate seminar on Paul
  • Portuguese ed. of my book (Jan 1, 2010)

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Jason Zurawski
Isaac W. Oliver
James Waddell
Jason von Ehrenkrook
Hanan Eshel

The Founding of the Enoch Seminar

In 2001 Gabriele Boccaccini launched the "Enoch Seminar", as a biennial gathering of international scholar and specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. The first meetings of the Enoch Seminar focused on the tradition of Enoch and its role in the development of Second Temple Jewish thought.

Now a tenured professor at the University of Michigan, Boccaccini supervised the work of several doctoral students, including J.Harold Ellens, Ron Ruark, Jason von Ehrenkrook, Jamer Waddell, Isaac Oliver and Jason Zurawski.

His personal research produced several edited volumes for the Enoch Seminar as well as his Roots of Rabbinic Judaism, an intellectual history of Second Temple Judaism, from Ezekiel to Daniel.

In 2005 he became the editor-in-chief of the Journal Henoch, reshaping the journal as a series of monographic issues on Second Temple Judaism by international specialists.

He was an invited speakers, offering lectures in Italy, Poland, Scotland, Russia, Israel, Hungary, Austria, Jordan, and the United States.

Books

2008 (books)

2003 (books)

2002 (books)

2001 (books)

Edited volumes

2009 (edited volumes)

2007 (edited volumes)

2005 (edited volumes)

2002 (edited volumes)

Journal Henoch Monograph Issues

  • Henoch 31.2 (2009) -- Jacob Neusner and the Scholarship on Ancient Judaism
  • Henoch 31.1 (2009) -- Enoch and Jubilees
  • Henoch 30.2 (2008) -- Blood and the Boundaries of Jewish and Christian Identities in Late Antiquity
  • Henoch 30.1 (2008) -- The Book of the Watchers and Early Apocalypticism: A Conversation with Paolo Sacchi
  • Henoch 29.2 (2007) -- Jews in the Greco-Roman World: Historical and Literary Aspects
  • Henoch 29.1 (2007) -- The Quest for the Historical Jesus in Italy from 1800 to the Present
  • Henoch 28.2 (2006) -- The First Enoch Graduate Seminar at the University of Michigan: 1. Angels and Demons
  • Henoch 28.1 (2006) -- Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity. A Conversation with Daniel Boyarin
  • Henoch 27.1-2 (2005) -- New Challenges for the Study of Judaism and Christian Origins

Articles

2009 (articles)

  • {en} What Is the Place of Historical Fiction in Judaic Studies? / Frankel Institute Annual (2009) 21-24

2008 (articles)

  • {en} Where does Ben Sira Belong? The Canon, Literary Genre, Intellectual Movement, and Social Group of a Zadokite Document / Studies in the Book of Ben Sira, ed. Géza G Xeravits and József Zsengellér (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 21-41

2007 (articles)

  • {it} Gesù ebreo e cristiano: sviluppi e prospettive di ricerca sul Gesù storico in Italia, dall'Ottocento a oggi (with an Appendix on works available in translation) / Henoch 29.1 (2007), 105-154

2006 (articles)

  • {it} Il Vangelo di Giuda: Gnosticismo e ricerca del Gesù storico / Il Regno 51.8 (15 aprile 2006), 222-223.

2005 (articles)

  • {en} Texts, Intellectual Movements, and Social Groups / Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection, ed. Gabriele Boccaccini (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 417-425.
  • {en} Qumran: The Headquarters of the Essenes or a Marginal Splinter Group? / Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection, ed. Gabriele Boccaccini (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 303-309.
  • {en} The Covenantal Theology of the Apocalyptic Book of Daniel / Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection, ed. Gabriele Boccaccini (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 39-44.
  • {it} Uomo, Angelo o Dio? Alle radici del messianismo ebraico e cristiano - I manoscritti del Mar Morto tra ebraismo e cristianesimo / Il messia tra memoria e attesa (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume, 15-48, 187-192

2004 (articles)

2003 (articles)

  • [38] Enoch, Qumran and the Essenes: The Rediscovery of a Forgotten Connection / George W.E. Nickelsburg in Perspective, ed. Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck (Brill: Leiden, 2003) 123-132 (with a response of G.W.E. Nickelsburg, 133-137).

2002 (articles)

  • [37] The Rediscovery of Enochic Judaism and the Enoch Seminar / The Origins of Enochic Judaism, ed. Gabriele Boccaccini (Turin: Zamorani, 2002), 9-13.
  • [36] Sviluppi del pensiero giudaico in epoca tolemaica (Artapano, Qohelet, Enoc, Tobia) / Due grandi sapienze: Bibbia e Ellenismo, ed. Piero Stefani (Florence: Biblia, 2002), 137-157.

2001 (articles)

  • [35] The Solar Calendars of Daniel and Enoch / The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception, ed. John J. Collins and Peter W. Flint, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2001), 2:311-328.
  • [33-34] Farisei: ipocriti o maestri? <The Pharisees: Hypocrites or Sages?>, and Paolo ebreo <Paul the Jew> / Ebrei e cristiani alle origini delle divisioni <Jews and Christian: At the Roots of their Division>, ed. Ernesto Riva, Stefano Rosso and Emilia Turco (Turin: AEC-Torino, 2001) 1-22, and 39-55.

2000 (articles)

Lectures

2009 (lectures)

  • I giudaismi del Secondo Tempio / Mini-course at the Faculty of Theology of Milan / Milan [Italy], May 10-12, 2009
  • The Armenian King Tigranes the Great as ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ in the Book of Judith / International Conference on the OT Apocrypha / Budapest [Hungary], May 14, 2009
  • From Enochic Literature to Enochic Judaism / SBL International at the Pontifical Gregorian University / Rome [Italy], July 1, 2009

2008 (lectures)

  • Second Temple Judaism in Scholarship and the Arts / Second Enoch Graduate Seminar at Princeton University / Princeton, NJ [USA], June 17, 2008
  • Syria and Jordan: A “Biblical” Perspective / BIBLIA / Petra [Jordan], August 2008
  • Jewish Apocalypticism: Origins and Legacy / Conference of Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, MI [USA], Oct 17, 2008
  • What is Jewish Fiction & How does it Belong to Judaic Studies / Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, MI [USA], Oct 30, 2008

2007 (lectures)

  • The Contribution of Italian Scholarship to Judaic and Early Christian Studies in America / Meeting of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane at the Italian Embassy / Washington, DC [USA], Apr 14, 2007
  • Jesus the Jesus in Italian Jewish Scholarship / Italian Jewish Museum / Jerusalem [Israel], May 14, 2007
  • Scripture Interpretation in Second Temple Judaisms / Pontifical Biblical Institute / Vatican [Rome, Italy], May 19, 2007]
  • Tablets of Heaven and Mosaic Torah in Jubilees / Fourth Enoch Seminar / Camaldoli [Italy], July 10, 2007
  • Sons of Zadok, Sons of Phinehas / International Organization for Qumran Studies / Ljubljana [Slovenia], July 18, 2007
  • Re-entering the Parables of Enoch in the Study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins / Society of Biblical Literature, International Meeting / Vienna [Austria], July 23, 2007

2006 (lectures)

  • Where Does Sirach Belong?: Canon Literary Genre, Intellectual Movement, Social Group / Sirach Conference / Papa [Hungary], May 18, 2006
  • I giudaismi del primo secolo / BIBLIA / Tiberiad [Israel], Jun 19, 2006
  • Hellenistic Judaism: Myth or Reality? / Notre Dame University / Notre Dame, IN [USA], Oct 25, 2006
  • The Merging of Sapiential and Enochic Traditions in the Book of Parables of Enoch / SBL Meeting / Washington, DC [USA], Nov 18, 2006

2005 (lectures)

  • [92] The Jewish Roots of the Depiction of Holy Sophia in the Russian Iconographic Tradition [BIBLIA], Novgorod, Russia, Jun 05
  • [91] The Russian Orthodox Church and the Jews [BIBLIA], Moscow, Russia, Jun 05
  • [90] The Parables of Enoch Within Second Temple Jewish Literature [“Third Enoch Seminar”], Camaldoli, Italy, Jun 9, 05
  • [89] The Roots of Jewishness and Secularism in the Ancient World [“Jewishness and Secularism in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” Posen Foundation and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies], University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, Apr 18, 05

2004 (lectures)

  • [88] What is Judaism?: Perspectives from Second Temple Jewish Studies [Posen Colloquium], University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, Oct 20, 2004
  • [87] Inner-Jewish Debate on the Tension between Divine and Human Agency in Second Temple Judaism [“Human and Divine Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment,” University of Aberdeen], Aberdeen, Scotland, Aug 2004
  • [86] Forgotten Texts and Lost Prophets: Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes [St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews], St Andrews, Scotland, Aug 17, 2004

2003 (lectures)

  • [85] Hellenistic Judaism: Myth or Reality? [“Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext,” Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, The University of Michigan], Ann Arbor MI (USA), Nov 3, 2003.
  • [84] Influssi e interazione tra apocalittica giudaica e culture non giudaiche [AISG International Meeting], Bertinoro (Italy), May 25, 2003.
  • [83] Forgotten Texts and Lost Prophets: The Pseudepigrapha at Qumran [Van Andel Museum Center], Grand Rapids MI (USA), Mar 20, 2003
  • [82] Leaders or Outcasts: Did the Essenes Do the Dead Sea Scrolls? [The Danforth 2003 Lecture, Hope College], Holland MI (USA), Feb 20, 2003.

2002 (lectures)

  • [81] Poland, the Popes, and Jewish-Christian Relations [CREES, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, and the Jewish Historical Museum at Warsaw], Warsaw, Poland, Jul 20, 2002
  • [79-80] Giudaismo del Secondo Tempio e Origini Cristiane <Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins>; and L’apocalittica giudaica e cristiana <Jewish Apocalypticism> [University of Padua], Padua, Italy, Jun 19, 2002
  • [74-78] Cinque Conferenze sul Libro di Qohelet <Five Lectures on the Book of Qohelet> [BIBLIA], Borca di Cadore, Aug 25-29, 2002
  • [73] Messianismo giudaico, messianismo cristiano: continuità e discontinuità <Jewish Messianism, Christian Messianism: Continuity and Discontinuity> [Società Italiana per la Ricerca Teologica], Foligno, Italy, Aug 23, 2002

2001 (lectures)

  • [71-72] Quattro conferenze sulla letteratura sapienziale [BIBLIA], Borca di Cadore, Aug 26, 2001
  • [70] Gesù di Nazareth: un Esseno? <Jesus of Nazareth: Was He an Essene?> [Istituto di Scienze R Religiose "San Giuseppe Moscati"], Avellino, Italy, Apr 5, 2001
  • [69] Gruppi e movimenti nel Medio Giudaismo <Groups and Movements in Middle Judaism> [University of Naples], Naples, Italy, Mar 30, 2001
  • [68] Sviluppi del pensiero giudaico in epoca tolemaica <Development of Jewish Thought in the Ptolemaic Period> [BIBLIA National Conference], Viterbo, Italy, Jan 26, 2001.

2000 (lectures)

  • [66-67] Cinque Conferenze sul Libro di Daniele [BIBLIA], Abbadia San Salvadore, Aug 22-26, 2001
  • [65] I Farisei: ipocriti o maestri? <The Pharisees: Hypocrites or Sages?> [AEC-Turin], Turin, Baptist Church, Jun 18, 2000.

Translations

2005 (translations)

  • [15] I manoscritti di Qumran e il giudaismo rabbinico. Italian translation from Lawrence Schiffman. In Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, [2005]) 205-208.
  • [14] Il contributo dei testi di Qumran allo studio delle origini cristiane, Italian translation from James VanderKam. In Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005) 199-204.
  • [13] Messianismo ebraico e messianismo cristiano: un approccio psicoanalitico, Italian translation from Ithamar Gruenwald. In Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005) 141-152.
  • [12] Il Figlio dell’Uomo, il primo giudaismo, Gesu’ e la cristologia primitiva, Italian translation from James H. Charlesworth. In Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005) 89-114.
  • [11] Il Messia “Figlio di Davide” nel giudaismo del Secondo Tempio, alla luce dei Manoscritti di Qumran, Italian translation from John J. Collins. In Il messia tra memoria e attesa (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005) 51-70.

2001 (translations)

  • [10] Abraham, promotore di un’umanità riconciliata, Italian translation of Emile Moatti’s Abraham, initiateur d’une humanite reunifiee [“Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana” 36.2 (2001)]

Events

2009 (events)

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  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 1, 2009) == == ==
  • Comunità del Sambuco Meeting (Alpe di Motta; July 17-24, 2009)
  • SBL International Meeting (Rome, Italy; June 30 - July 4, 2009)
  • 5th Enoch Seminar on 2 Enoch (Naples, Italy; June 14-19, 2009)
  • Meeting of the Board of Directors of Henoch, with Sacchi, Bertoletti, and Ibba (May 28, 2009)
  • Lecture of Enzo Bianchi at the Waldensian Church (Florence, May 27, 2009)
  • SUM-NISA Conference (Naples, Italy; May 20-24, 2009)
  • Conference on Judith (Budapest, Hungary; May 13-16, 2009) -- My Lecture on Tigranes the Great and Salome Alexandra.
  • Three-Day Lecture Tour in Milan (May 10-12, 2009)
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 5, 2009) == == ==
  • Harold Ellens Defence (Apr 28, 2009)
  • <> Luciano Ori. Opere della Donazione Boccaccini. Inauguration of the Exhibit at Museo Pecci, Prato. (Apr 4, 2009)
  • Jason von Ehrenkrook Defence (Mar 24, 2009)
  • Benjamin Britten: Albert Herrings (Mendelssohn Theater; Mar 22, 2009)
  • Conference on Enoch at Fort Wayne (by car with James Waddell) -- Lectures with James VanderKam and Charles Gieschen (Mar 18-19, 2009)
  • Visit of Leoluca Orlando at Ann Arbor: Dinner at Zanzibar (Feb 8, 2009) and Lecture on the Mafia (Feb 9, 2009)


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2008 (events)

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  • Symposium: Judaism & Music at the Frankel Institute (Nov 17, 2008).
  • Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Power Center; Nov 16, 2008)
  • Benjamin Britten: St. Nicholas (Concordia University, Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Nov 2, 2008)
  • Aldo Cazzullo at Ann Arbor. Lecture on “Outlet Italy: viaggio in un paese in svendita” (Oct 30, 2008)
  • My lecture at the Frankel Institute on “What is Jewish Fiction & How does it Belong to Judaic Studies?” (Oct 30, 2008)
  • Peter Schaefer at Ann Arbor (Oct 25, 2008) -- Faculty/Grad Students Colloquium: “Jesus in the Talmud and Its Repercussions”
  • Tour of Jewish Detroit with Stanley Frankel (Sep 24, 2008)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Sep 3, 2008) == == ==
  • Journey to Syria and Jordan (with BIBLIA) (BIBLIA; Aug 18 - Sept 1, 2008)
  • Journey to Albania with Madonnina del Grappa (July 2008)
  • Trip to Rome (S. Gregorio al Celio with Aloma; Jul 2008)
  • == == == Flight to Italy == == ==
  • 2nd Enoch Graduate Seminar (Jun 16-18, 2008)
  • Festa della Repubblica at Detroit with the Italian class (Jun 2, 2008)
  • 50th Birthday (Mar 24, 2008)
  • Darrell Bock in Ann Arbor (Mar 12-13, 2008)
  • ISSNAF Meeting in Washington (Feb 3-5, 2008)
  • Lecture of Ralph Williams on Primo Levi (Holocaust Memorial Day; Jan 27, 2008)

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2007 (events)

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  • AJS conference in Toronto (Dec 2007)
  • My lecture on: “The Journal Henoch and the Enoch Seminar: International Scholarship in Second Temple Judaism (Nov 26, 2007)
  • Teaching at the Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (Aug 13-17 & 20-24, 2007)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 7, 2007) == == ==
  • SBL International SBL in Vienna (Jul 22-26, 2007)
  • 4th Enoch Seminar on the Book of Jubilees (Camaldoli, Arezzo, Italy; Jul 8-12, 2007), Ravenna (Jun 12-14) and IOQS Conference in Liubljana (Jun 14-19)
  • Journey to Armenia (and Germany) (with BIBLIA) (Jun 13-23, 2007) and Germany (Jun 23-25, 2007)
  • Marc Bernstein: Wonderful Town (Rome; Auditorium S. Cecilia; May 26, 2007)
  • University of Michigan Summer Program in Israel (May 6-17, 2007) and Lectures in Rome (May 18-19, 2007)
  • == == == Flight to Italy (Apr 30, 2007) == == ==
  • UofM Commencement (speech by Bill Clinton) (Apr 28, 2007)
  • Death of Luciano Ori (1928-2007) (Apr 25, 2007)
  • ISSNAF Conference in Washington (Apr 12-15, 2007)

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2006 (events)

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  • Arthur Honegger: King David (1923) (Hill Auditorium; UofM University Choir, Dec 4, 2006)
  • SBL Meeting, Washington (Nov 17-25, 2006)
  • Aloma's Lecture on the Variations on America by Charles Ives (Lyceum: Farmington Hills, Nov 10, 2006)
  • Porgy and Bess (Detroit Opera House; Nov 5, 2006)
  • My lecture at Notre Dame on Hellenistic Judaism (Oct 25, 2006)
  • Trip by car to Niagara Falls , New Haven, Princeton, New York (Aug 17-30, 2006)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 1, 2006) == == ==
  • Pomino-Camaldoli (Jul 14-21, 2006)
  • <> Italy wins the Final of the Football World Cup in Germany against France (Jul 9, 2006)
  • Journey to Israel (with BIBLIA) (Jun 16-26, 2006)
  • AEC Conference at Rome (Jun 11-15, 2006). Conference and visit to the Rome Museums.
  • Visit to Mimma Carratu' at Giogoli (Jun 3, 2006)
  • Journey to Hungary (and Slovakia) (May 17-24, 2006)
  • == == == Flight to Italy: (May 11-12, 2006) == == == | Detroit-Paris-Milan-Florence
  • 1st Enoch Graduate Seminar (Ann Arbor; May 2-4, 2006)
  • David deSilva at Ann Arbor (Feb 22, 2006)
  • Festa della Befana (Jan 8, 2006)
  • Term of Pierpaolo Bertalotto in Ann Arbor (Winter 2006)
  • UofM Teaching (Winter 2006): "Intro to the New Testament" (undergraduate course), and "Developments in Early Christology" (graduate seminar) -- Italian school

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2005 (events)

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  • Full Professor (Dec 12, 2005)
  • Shaye Cohen at Ann Arbor Lecture and Seminar. (Dec 5-6, 2005)
  • Carlo Goldoni: Alecchino, servo di due padroni, with Ferruccio Soleri (Mendelssohn Theatre; Nov 4, 2005)
  • Detroit Institute of Art (Oct 30, 2005)
  • Al Gore's Lecture (Oct 24, 2005)
  • Israel Finkelstein's lecture (Oct 24, 2005)
  • Trip to Toledo Museum of Art (Oct 21, 2005)
  • The Boys from Syracuse. Musical (Mendelssohn Theatre, Oct 15, 2005)
  • Richard Strauss: Daphne (Conductor Semyon Bychkov, with Renée Fleming) (Hill Auditorium; Oct 13, 2005)
  • Paul Rusesabagina: 15th Annual U-M Wallenberg Lecture and Medal Presentation (Power Center, Oct 11, 2005)
  • Jane Schaberg's Lecture: “The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Eros and Mysticism” (Ott 05, 2005)
  • UofM Teaching (Fall 2005) -- Italian class at Honey Creek (Romina, Dario, Zane, Sara, Nathan)
  • TV interview with RAI Voyager (Sep 2, 2005)
  • Enrico at Ann Arbor (Aug 12-Sep 8, 2005) -- Trip to Northern Michigan (Sep 3-7, 2005)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 4, 2005) == == ==
  • Pomino (Jul 16-20 & 25-31, 2005). With the Camplanis (Jul 25-26, 2005. Meeting with Paolo Sacchi (Jul 27, 2005)
  • Recital of Gershwin songs (with Gregorio Nardi, Giulia Peri e Sonia Bellugi) (Villa di Vico, Jul 11, 2005)
  • Journey to Russia (with BIBLIA) (Jun 19-29, 2005) and Germany (Jun 29-Jul 4, 2005). Train to Milan-Brescia (Meeting at Morcelliana, Jul 5)
  • Trip to Taggia, Monteriggioni, Siena, Casola D'Elsa, Colle Val D'Elsa (Jun 16, 2005)
  • Aloma's lecture on Marc Blitstein (University of Florence; Jun 14, 2005)
  • 3rd Enoch Seminar on the Book of Parables (Camaldoli, Arezzo, Italy; Jun 6-10, 2005)
  • Summer Program in Naples (May 28-Jun 4, 2005)
  • Seminar at the University of Siena (May 19-20, 2005)
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 5-6, 2005) == == ==
  • <> "Election of Popo Benedict XIV (Joseph Ratzinger)' (Apr 19, 2005)
  • Posen Conference (with Yaron Eliav and Martin Goodman) (Apr 17-18, 2005)
  • <> Death of John Paul II (Apr 2, 2005). Panel on his legacy (Apr 6) with Brian Porter, Genevieve Zubrzycki, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Michael Kennedy, and Rev. Tom McClain.
  • My lecture on “Theological and Cultural Foundations of Inter-Faith Dialogue" (Bloomfield, Congregational Church; Mar 20, 2005)
  • James M. Robinson at Ann Arbor (Mar 13-15, 2005)
  • Ithamar Guenwald at Ann Arbor (Feb 14-15, 2005)
  • Io non ho paura movie on TV at our place (with Giorgio Bertellini, Paolo Squatriti (e moglie), Silvia Giorgini e Davide, Andrea Todisco, Mario Corrado, Sante, Vincenzo Binetti, Carlo Giugliano e Stefano Mengozzi) (Jan 21, 2005)
  • Bernstein: Candide (TV). From the Metropolitan Center of New York (Jan 12, 2005)
  • UofM Teaching (Winter 2005): "Jesus & the Gospels", and "Flavius Josephus and the Jewish War" -- Second Term at Honey Creek (Niki, Zane, Wren, Romina, Dario, Sara Jo).

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2004 (events)

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  • Indian Ocean Tsunami (Dec 26, 2004)
  • Christmas at Silvia's (Dec 25, 2004)
  • Death of Antie Marisa (Dec 19, 2004)
  • Festa di Natale. Scuola Arcobaleno (Dec 5, 2004) -- I dress up as Santa Claus.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel (Power Center, Nov 12, 2004)
  • Statuary Conference (organized by Yaron Eliav) (Nov 7-10, 2004)
  • Noam Chomsky at Ann Arbor (Oct 28, 2004)
  • Lecture by Esthi Eshel (Oct 17, 2004)
  • My lecture (Posen Colloquium) (OCt 20, 2004)
  • John Collins and Janes VanderKam at Ann Arbor (Oct 11, 2004)
  • Lecture by Hanan Eshel on the Bar Kochba mss." (Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Sep 27, 2004)
  • George Nickelsburg at Ann Arbor (Sep 18-21, 2004)
  • Lecture by Hanan Eshel on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Sep 14, 2004)
  • Lyceum (Farmington Hills, Sat 10, 04)
  • Hanan and Esthi Eshel at Ann Arbor (Fall 2004)
  • UofM Teaching (Fall 2004): "Introduction to the New Testament" and "The Parables of Enoch". -- First Italian class at Honey Creek (Caterina, Niki, Rhen, Romina, Zane, Dario).
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 24, 2004) == == == / Lufthansa: Florence-Frankfurt-Detroit
  • Journey to Scotland and Aberdeen Conference (Aug 5-22, 2004)
  • Neeting with paolo Sacchi (Montespertoli, Jul 30, 2004)
  • Cocciante: Il gobbo di Notre Dame (Corniola, Empoli; Jul 21, 2004 -- Replica at Vinci (Jul 26)
  • Recitals of American songs by American composers on poetry by Emily Dickinson" (pianist Gregorio nardi; soprano Antonia Brown) (Accademia Cristofori; Jun 15, 2004)
  • Ives: Concord Sonata (pianist Gregorio Nardi) (Saloncino della Pergola, Jun 7, 2004)
  • Madonna della Tosse: Festa della Parrocchia (Jun 5, 2004)
  • Aloma's Seminar on Charles Ives (with Gianfranco Vinay, Gregorio Nardi e Antonia Brown) (May 26, 2004)
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 24-25, 2004) == == ==
  • Die Fliedermaus (Apr 18, 2004)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar (Apr 16, 2004)
  • My Mother at Ann Arbor (Apr 5, 2004)
  • Aloma's Lecture on Charles Ives (Lyceum, Farmington Hills; Mar 26, 2004
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni (Mendelssohn Theater; Mar 25, 2004)
  • I am on medical leave for most of the term (Winter 2004)

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2003 (events)

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  • Christmas at Silvia's (Dec 25, 2003)
  • Frankel Center Symposium on “Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext” (Nov 3, 2003)
  • Paula Fredriksen at Ann Arbor (Oct 27-28, 2003)
  • UofM Teaching: Fall 2003: "The Letter of Paul to the Romans" (graduate seminar), and "Christianity, Judaism, and Hellenistic Civilization" (undergraduate seminar) -- Italian School.
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 17, 2003) == == ==
  • Pomino and Monte Falterona with the Camplanis (Aug 3, 2003)
  • Summer Program in Rome (Rome, Jul 6-11, 2003)
  • 2nd Enoch Seminar on Enoch and Qumran (Venice, Italy; Jul 1-4, 2003) and Biblia Seminar on Jewish messianism (Jul 4-6, 2003).
  • University of Michigan Summer Program (Rome, July 6-11, 2003)
  • My Lecture at the AEC-Torino (Jun 11-12, 2003)
  • L’interculturalita’ dell’ebraismo (Bertinoro-Ravenna, Mag 25-26, 2003)
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 19-20, 2003) == == ==
  • Lecture at the Unitarian Church of Grosse Pointe on the Dead Sea Scrolls (May 3, 2003)
  • Seminar in preparation of the Summer Program in Rome Two lectures
  • Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit at Grand Rapids and Conference (Mar 20, 2003)
  • Lawrence Schiffman at Ann Arbor Lecture and Seminar (Mar 10-11, 2003)
  • Beginning of Italian courses (Mar 7, 2003)
  • Hope College and SBL Regional Meeting at Grand Rapids (Feb 20-22, 2003)
  • UofM Teaching: Winter 2003: Intro to Jewish Civilizations (undergraduate course) & Intro to the New Testament (undergraduates)

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2002 (events)

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  • Dickens: Great Expectations' (Mendelssohn Theatre; Dec 14, 2002)
  • SBL Meeting (Toronto [Canada]; Nov 23-25, 2002)
  • Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (Power Center; Nov 17, 2002)
  • John Gager in Ann Arbor: Lecture at Mendelssohn Theatre (Oct 21-22, 2002)
  • UofM Teaching (Winter 2002) : "Rabbinic Origins, from Daniel to the Mishnah" (graduate seminar) & "Intro to Second Temple Judaism" (undergraduate course)
  • == == == Flight to the United States == == ==
  • Seminario BIBLIA on the Book of Qohelet (Borca di Cadore [Italy]; August 24-29, 2002)
  • Convegno SIRT (Foligno [Italy]; Aug 22-23, 2002)
  • Pomino, Poppi, Camaldoli (Aug 8-16, 2002)
  • Journey to Poland (Jul 10-23) and Belarus (Jul 24-30, 2002)
  • Trip to Padova and Venice (Two Lectures at the invitation of Paolo Bettiolo and preparation of the II Enoch Seminar) (Jun 19ff, 2002)
  • == == == Flight to Italy == == ==
  • Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (Farmington Hills, MI; May 6-17, 2002)

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2001 (events)

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  • Orfeo e Euridice (Michigan Theater; Nov 11, 2001)
  • My lecture on the Italian Jewish Experience (Hillel; Nov 5, 2001)
  • Death of Anthony Saldarini (Sep 16, 2001)
  • Attack on the Twin Towers (Sep 11, 2001)
  • UofM Teaching (Fall 2001): "Intro to Jewish Civilizations" (undergraduate course), and "The Essenes, Qumran and Jesus" (undergraduate seminar)
  • == == == Flight to the United States == == ==
  • 'Seminario BIBLIA on the Wisdom Tradition (Borca di Cadore [Italy]; August 25-27, 2001)
  • Journey to Belarus (July 30 to Aug 12, 2001)
  • Trip to Turin - Kiss Me Kate at the Teatro Regio (Jul 3-5, 2001)
  • 1st Enoch Seminar of the Origins of Enochic Judaism (Florence [Italy]; June 19-23, 2001)
  • Journey to Greece (May 16 to June 12, 2001)
  • Trip to Naples (Mar 29-Apr 7, 2001)
  • Book Presentation of the Italian ed. of Cohen's Book on the Jesus Trail (University of Florence / AEC Florence; Feb 27, 2001)
  • Death of Vittorio Lampronti (Feb 14, 2001) abd Funeral (Feb 15
  • BIBLIA Conference (S. Martino al Cimino, Viterbo, Jan 25-28, 2001)
  • == == == Flight to Italy (Jan 16-17, 2001) == == ==

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2000 (events)

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  • The Tempest (Power Center; Dec 16, 2000)
  • To Kill a Mockinbird (Power Center; Dec 9, 2000)
  • Death of don Benedetto Calati (1914-2000) (Nov 21, 2000)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 26-31, 2000) == == ==
  • BIBLIA conference on the Book of Daniel (Abbadia San Salvadore; Aug 21-16, 2000)
  • Visit of Paris (Jul 22-31, 2000) Flight Pisa-Paris-Pisa.
  • Trip to Rome and Turin (Jun 15?-19, 2000) -- My lecture in Turin on the Pharisees.
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 17, 2000) == == ==
  • Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit and conference in Chicago (May 6-8, 2000) -- Symposium with Adela Collins, Michael Douglas, and Eileen Schuller)
  • Moving to the apartment at RiverHouse (Apr 29, 2000)
  • My brother Lorenzo at Ann Arbor (Jan 14-17, 2000)
  • UofM Teaching (Winter 2000): Intro to Second Temple Judaism & Intro to Jewish Civilizations. -- Intro to Second Temple Judaism (II) (graduate seminar), Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism

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1990s ~ 1990s ~ 1990s

1998
1996
1994
1993
1992
1991
1991
1990
Lynne Alcott Kogel
Mark Kinzer
Charles A. Gieschen
April DeConick
Philip Munoa
J. Harold Ellens
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
James H. Charlesworth
University of Michigan

Moving to America

In 1991 Gabriele Boccaccini published his first volume, Middle Judaism, an introduction to the Second Temple period that emphasized its nature as the transitional age between the Bible and both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.

In the Fall 1992 Gabriele Boccaccini began teaching at the University of Michigan as an Adjunct Professor. He collaborated to the PhD program led by Professor Jarl Fossum. Among the students he supported in the program were Philip Munoa, April DeConick, Charles Gieschen, Mark Kinzer, J. Harold Ellens, and Lynne Kogel.

His research focused in particular on the development of the Enochic tradition in the Second Temple Period and its influence on Qumran origins. The book Beyond the Essene Hypothesis" (1998) was the synthesis of his work in the field.

He was an invited speakers, offering lectures in Ireland, Italy, Germany, and the United States.

Books

1998 (books)

1993 (books)

1992 (books)

1991 (books)

Articles

1999 (articles)

1998 (articles)

  • [29] Middle Judaism and Its Contemporary Interpreters (1993-1997): What Makes Any Judaism a Judaism? / Henoch 20.3 (1998), 349-356

1997 (articles)

  • [27] E se l'essenismo fosse il movimento enochiano? Una nuova ipotesi circa il rapporto tra Qumran e gli esseni / Ricerche Storico-Bibliche 9.2 (1997), 49-67

1996 (articles)

  • [25] Dallo straniero come categoria sociale allo straniero come problema religioso: alle radici dell’universalismo cristiano e rabbinico / [[Ricerche Storico-Bibliche 8.1-2 (1996), 163-172
  • [24] Il Dio unico, Padre e Creatore, nel giudaismo di eta ellenistico-romana <The Only God, Father and Maker, in Judaism of the Hellenistic-Roman Period> / Dizionario di Spiritualita Biblico-Patristica. Vol 10: Dio-Signore nella Bibbia, ed. Salvatore A. Panimolle (Borla: Brescia, 1996) 102-121.

1995 (articles)

  • <5> The Pre-existence of the Torah: A Commonplace in Second Temple Judaism, or a Later Rabbinic Development? / Henoch 17 (1995), 329-350
  • <4> Multiple Judaisms / "Bible Review" 11.1 (Feb 1995) 38-41, 46.
  • <3> History of Judaism: Its Periods in Antiquity / Judaism in Late Antiquity (1995 Neusner), edited volume, 285-308
  • [20] Testi apocalittici coevi all'Apocalisse di Giovanni / Ricerche Storico-Bibliche 7.2 (1995), 151-161
  • [19] La figura di Davide nei giudaismi di età ellenistico-romana / Ricerche Storico-Bibliche 7.1 (1995), 175-185
  • [18] Paolo l'ebreo <Paul the Jew>, "Vita Monastica" (1995).

1994 (articles)

  • [17] Targum Neofiti as a Proto-Rabbinic Document: A Systemic Analysis / The Aramaic Bible; Targums in Their Historical Context (1994 Beattie, McNamara), edited volume, 254-263
  • [16] Il popolo di Dio nei giudaismi di eta ellenistico-romana <The People of God in the Judaisms of the Hellenistic-Roman Period> / Dizionario di Spiritualita Biblico-Patristica. Vol.8: Chiesa-Comunita-Popolo di Dio, ed. Salvatore A. Panimolle (Borla: Brescia, 1994), 52-62.
  • [15] Le benedizioni e le maledizioni nell'apocalittica giudaica <Blessing and Cursing in the Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition> / Dizionario di Spiritualita Biblico-Patristica. Vol.7: Beatitudine-Benedizione-Maledizione, ed. Salvatore A. Panimolle (Borla: Brescia, 1994), 77-84.

1993 (articles)

  • <2> Middle Judaism and Its Contemporary Interpreters: Methodological Foundations for the Study of Judaisms, 300 BCE to 200 CE / Henoch 15 (1993), 207-34

1992 (articles)

  • [13] Da Gerusalemme a Roma: le radici giudaiche dell'universalismo paolino <From Jerusalem to Rome: The Jewish Roots of Pauline Universalism> // Parole di Vita 37 (1992), 326-332

1991 (articles)

Lectures

1999 (lectures)

  • [64] Envy of God, Envy of Satan: The Elusive Scriptural Quotation of James 4:5 [University of Michigan], Ann Arbor MI (USA), Mar 8, 1999.
  • [63] Jesus the Essene: A Reassessment of an Old Hypothesis [University of Michigan], Ann Arbor MI (USA), Mar 8, 1999.

1998 (lectures)

  • [62] La rottura tra Sinagoga e Chiesa: uno scisma all'interno del giudaismo tra il I e il II secolo? <The Parting of the Ways between the Synagogue and the Church: A Schism within Judaism of the I-II cent. CE?> [Comunita’ di via Sambuco], Milan (Italy), May 17, 1998.
  • [61] Secrets from the Dead Sea Scrolls: Jewish Pluralism in the 1st Century ["The Israel at 50 Lecture Series," The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan], Oak Park, Detroit MI (USA), Mar 26, 1998.
  • [60] Enoch's Last Journey: From Heaven to Folklore [University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Near Eastern Languages], Los Angeles CA (USA), Mar 5, 1998.

1997 (lectures)

  • [59] The Origins of Qumran in Light of the Enoch Group ["Biblical Theology and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Jubilee Celebration," The Second Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins], Princeton NJ (USA), Nov 10, 1997.
  • [58] Esiste una letteratura farisaica del Secondo Tempio? <In Search of a Pharisaic Literature in Second Temple Judaism> [Associazione Biblica Italiana], Rocca di Papa RM (Italy), Sep 11, 1997.

1996 (lectures)

  • [57] Configurazione storica della comunita di Qumran <Qumran in Context> ["Qumran e le origini cristiane" <Qumran and Christian Origins>, 6th Italian Conference of New Testament Scholars and Ancient Church Historians, organized by the Italian Biblical Association (ABI)], L'Aquila (Italy), Sep 14,

1995 (lectures)

  • [56] Middle Judaism: The Parallel Emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism [University of California at Los Angeles], Los Angeles CA (USA), Mar 6, 1996.
  • [54-55] The Lost Prophet: Enoch [Two lectures organized by the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center at Claremont and the University of Judaism Department of Continuing Education at Los Angeles], Mudd Theatre, School of Theology, Claremont CA, Mar 4; and the University of Judaism, Los Angeles CA (USA), Mar 5, 1996.
  • [53] Middle Judaism: The Parallel Emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism [Hebrew Union College], Cincinnati OH (USA), Feb 21, 1996.
  • [51-52] Before the Mishnah: Rabbinism in the Making, and We are Twins: The Birth of Christianity and Rabbinism from First-Century Judaism [Two lectures organized by The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University, The Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies, and the Archidiocese of Detroit], St. Ives Church, Southfield (Detroit) MI (USA), Feb 15, 1996.
  • [50] The Pre-existence of the Torah: A Commonplace in Second Temple Judaism, or a Late Rabbinic Development? [The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at The University of Michigan], Salinger Resource Center, Ann Arbor MI (USA), Feb 8, 1996.

1995 (lectures)

  • [49] Middle Judaism: The Parallel Emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism [Hope College], Holland MI (USA), Nov 16, 1995.
  • [48] The End of Times and the Times of the End in the Jewish and Christian Traditions ["Death & Extinction Semester Faculty Seminar," organized by the Program on Studies in Religion of the University of Michigan], Ann Arbor MI (USA), Oct 20, 1995.
  • [46-47] Middle Judaism: The Twin Birth of Christianity and Rabbinism from First-Century Judaisms [Two lectures organized by the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center at Claremont and the University of Judaism at Los Angeles], Claremont CA (USA), Mar 20, 1994, and Los Angeles (USA), Mar 21, 1995.

1994 (lectures)

  • [45] The Preexistence of the Torah: A Commonplace in Early Judaism, or a Later Rabbinic Development? / SBL American Meeting / Chicago IL (USA), Nov 19, 1994.
  • [44] Christian and Rabbinic Origins / Seminar organized by the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Jews, Rabbinic Program / Detroit MI (USA), Nov 3, 1994.
  • [43] L'universalismo dal postesilio all'apocalittica <Universalistic Perspectives in Second Temple Judaism> / "Lo straniero nella Bibbia. Aspetti storici, istituzionali e teologici" <Jews and Gentiles in Biblical Times>, 23rd Biblical Conference, organized by the Italian Biblical Association at the Pontifical Biblical Institute / Rome (Italy), Sep 14, 1994.
  • [41-42] Il medio giudaismo: premesse metodologiche <Middle Judaism: Methodological Foundations>, and Il medio giudaismo e le origini cristiane <Middle Judaism and Christian Origins> / Two lectures organized by La Porta Cultural Center / Bergamo (Italy), May 19, 1994
  • [40] Antisemitism and Dialogue in Continental Europe After the Holocaust / “15th Annual Conference on the Holocaust,” Hillel Foundation / Ann Arbor MI (USA), Mar 17, 1994.
  • [39] Ancient Texts Bearing on the Role of Women in the Jewish and Christian Faith Communities / "Scholar Trialog: Muslim, Christian, Jewish Leadership Forum," Lecture Series organized by the Greater Detroit Interfaith Round Table of The National Conference of Christians and Jews / Detroit MI (USA), Mar 15, 1994.
  • [38] The Emergence of the Concept of the Devil in the Ancient Jewish and Christian Traditions / "Evil Semester Faculty Seminar," organized by the Program on Studies in Religion of the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor MI (USA), Mar 11, 1994.
  • [37] Middle Judaism and Christian Origins / [Lecture organized by the Catholic Theological Union] / Chicago IL (USA), Feb 2, 1994.
  • [36] Middle Judaism: The Contribution of Judaism to Hellenistic Thought / [Lecture organized by the Dept. of Classical Studies of the University of Michigan] / Ann Arbor MI (USA), Jan 27, 1994.

1993 (lectures)

  • [35] Pseudo-Philo as Evidence of Formative Rabbinic Judaism / SBL American Meeting / Washington DC (USA), Nov 20, 1993.
  • [34] Apocalissi giudaiche coeve all'Apocalisse di Giovanni <Jewish Apocalypses contemporaneous to the Apocalypsis of John> / 5th Conference of New Testament Studies, organized by the Italian Biblical Association (ABI) / Seiano NA (Italy), Sep 17, 1993.
  • [33] La figura di Davide nei giudaismi di eta ellenistico-romana <David in the Judaisms of the Hellenistic-Roman Period> / 8th Conference of Old Testament Studies, organized by the Italian Biblical Association (ABI)c/ Seiano NA (Italy), Sep 14, 1993.
  • [32] Targum Neofiti as a Source of Second-Century Formative Rabbinic Judaism / SBL International Meeting / Munster (Germany), Jul 26, 1993.
  • [31] Origini parallele di cristianesimo e rabbinismo <Parallel Origins of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism> / Lecture organized by the Waldensian Cultural Center, and Claudiana Publisher / Milan (Italy), Jun 2, 1993.
  • [30] Targum Neofiti as Evidence of Second-Century Rabbinic Judaism / Faculty Lecture, organized by the Dept. of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor MI (USA), Apr 12, 1993.

1992 (lectures)

  • [29] Targum Neofiti as a Proto-Rabbinic Document: A Systemic Analysis / "The Aramaic Bible: Targums in Their Historical Context," International Conference organized by the Royal Irish Academy / Dublin (Ireland), Jul 15, 1992.
  • [27-28] Paolo ebreo <Paul the Jew> / Two lectures organized by the Turin and Florence Councils of Christians and Jews / Turin (Italy), Apr 8, 1992, and Florence (Italy), Jun 11, 1992.

1991 (lectures)

  • [26] Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and the Arts / SBL American Meeting / Kansas City MO (USA), Nov 24, 1991.
  • [25] Universalism: A Christian Exclusive? [Lecture organized by the William Jewell College], Liberty MO (USA), Nov 21, 1991.
  • [24] Do This In Remembrance of Me [Lecture organized by the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary], Lombard IL (USA), Nov 12, 1991.
  • [15-23] Middle Judaism, 300 BCE - 200 CE: Toward a Comprehensive and Bias-Free Approach to Second Temple Judaism / Fortress Press lecture tour / Barnard College, New York City NY [Oct 29]; Furman University, Greenville SC [Oct 30]; Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC [Oct 31]; Duke University, Durham NC [Nov 4]; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA [Nov 6]; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI [Nov 7]; Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard IL [Nov 12]; University of Chicago, Chicago IL [Nov 13]; Bethany Theological Seminary, Oak Brook IL [Nov 14]), USA, Oct 29 - Nov 14, 1991
  • [13] Alle radici della non-violenza cristiana <At the Roots of the Christian Non-Violence> [Lecture organized by the Melauri Center (Spazio Melauri)] / Florence (Italy), Apr 30, 1991.

1990 (lectures)

  • [12] Che cos'e l'apocalittica? <Jewish Apocalypticism> / "Apocalisse e apocalittica" <Apocalypsis and Apocalyptic>, Lecture Series organized by the Florence Group of the Italian Ecumenical Association (SAE-Firenze)], St. Mark Monastery / Florence (Italy), Oct 25, 1990.

Translations

1998 (translations)

  • [9] La pluriforme alleanza di Dio, Italian translation of Irving Greenberg’s Covenantal Pluralism ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 33 (1998) 27-33].

1995 (translations)

  • [8] Per una teologia ebraica del cristianesimo, Italian translation of Michael S. Kogan’s Toward a Jewish Theology of Christianity> ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 30 (1995) 106-111].

1994 (translations)

  • [7] Crescere nel dialogo in una società multireligiosa, Italian translation of John B. Cobb’s Being a Transformationist in a Pluralistic World ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 29 (1994) 114-117].
  • [6] Un rabbino in dialogo con Gesù. Genesi di un libro, Italian translation of Jacob Neusner’s A Rabbi Talks with Jesus: Introducing a Book ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 29 (1994) 107-113].
  • [5] Gesù l'ebreo. Un punto di vista ebraico, Italian translation of Hayim G. Perelmuter’s Jesus the Jew: A Jewish Perspective ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 29 (1994) 29-37].

1993 (translations)

  • [4] L'ebraicità di Gesù: nuove testimonianze archeologiche e documentarie, Italian translation of James H. Charlesworth’s Jesus' Jewishness: New Evidence from History and Archaeology ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 28 (1993) 6-18].

1992 (translations)

  • [3] I figli di Rebecca. Giudaismo e cristianesimo sono fratelli gemelli, Italian translation of Alan F. Segal’s Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity as Twins ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 27 (1992) 3-6].

1990 (translations)

  • [2] Verso una comprensione ebraica del cristianesimo, Italian translation of Leon Klenicki’s Toward a Jewish Understanding of Christianity ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 25 (1990) 64-69].

Events

1999 (events)

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  • A day of Millennium celebrations from all around the world (Dec 31, 1999)
  • Winter Commencement with Romano Prodi (Dec 19, 1999)
  • Dic 5, 99 (Dom): Ann Arbor, Hill Auditorium. Haendel Messiah
  • SBL Boston (Nov 20-27, 1997)
  • Nov 16, 99 (Mar): Ann Arbor, Michigan Theater, <Film>. *Pollyanna* (1920, Powell), con accompagnamento di organo
  • Ott 15, 1999 (Ven): Ann Arbor, Rackham Auditorium. Conferenza con la negoziatrice palestinese, Hanan Ashrawi.
  • University of Michigan, Fall 1999 -- Teaching: "Jesus and the Gospels" (undergraduate course), and "The Gospel of John" (graduate seminar) + "Intro to Second Temple Judaism" (Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Sep 6, 1999) == == == | Firenze-Brussels-Cincinnati-Detroit (Sabena)
  • Dinner at Manuela's (Sep 2, 1999) with Paolo Sacchi and Vittorio Lampronti
  • Punta Ala (Aug 22-28, 1999)
  • Pomino (Aug 13-21, 1999), with brother and mother. Visit of the Sacchi (Aug 18).
  • Trip to bologna (Jul 25, 1999) with Aloma
  • Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande. Opera (Teatro Comunale, Jun 28, 1999)
  • Birth of our niece, Giulia (Jun 26, 1999)
  • Florence, Italy (Jun 2-7, 1999) -- Presentation of Aloma's Catalogue of the Teatro Comunale (Jun 2), with Pinzauti and Fiamma Nicolodi.
  • Purchase of a Motorcycle (May 31, 1999)
  • Meeting of the AEC (May 30, 1999), with Aldo and Manuela Paggi, Innocenzo Gargano and Vittorio Lampronti
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 24, 1999) == == == | Detroit-Cincinnati-Brussels-Firenze (Sabena)
  • I am a Tenured Professor at the University odf Michigan (Apr 15, 1999)
  • Passover seder with Mark Kinzer (Mar 31, 1999)
  • Benigni's Triumph at the Night of the Oscars (Mar 21, 1999)
  • Job Interview at Michigan for tenure -- [64] Envy of God, Envy of Satan: The Elusive Scriptural Quotation of James 4:5 [University of Michigan], Ann Arbor MI (USA), Mar 8, 1999. -- [63] Jesus the Essene: A Reassessment of an Old Hypothesis [University of Michigan], Ann Arbor MI (USA), Mar 8, 1999.
  • Jan 26, 1999: Ann Arbor, St Mary’s. Jewish Roots of Christianity (mio intervento alla Chiesa cattolica di Ann Arbor)
  • Death of Mario Gozzini (1920-1999) (Jan 3, 1999)

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1998 (events)

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  • SBL Meeting, Orlando FL (Nov 21-24, 1998) -- Disneyland -- Italian Reception (with Edmondo Lupieri): Qumran Research in Italy: Beyond the Essene Hypothesis (panel on my book with William Adler, James VanderKam, Florentino Garcia-Martinez, and Benjamin Wright).
  • Nov 1, 98 (Dom): Ann Arbor, Michigan Theatre. -- Trionfo italiano alla premiere ad Ann Arbor del film "La vita e’ bella" (Life Is Beautiful) di Roberto Benigni con ricevimento in onore del console Michele Quaroni. Mi tocca il discorso introduttivo ufficiale.
  • University of Michigan, Fall 1998 -- 3rd year at Island Ct. Dr. -- THe NES dept moved to the second Floor of Freeze Bldg. -- Teaching: "Jesus & the Gospels" (undergraduate)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 20, 1998) == == ==
  • Montespertoli, italy', Principina a Mare, Pomino, Italy
  • Trip to Genova (Jun 7-8, 1998) -- Conference on Gershwin with Aloma, Marcello Piras and Gianfranco Vinay
  • Giu 1-7, 98: Firenze. Lorenzo e i bambini vengono a Firenze -- Giu 2, 98: Con Enrico alla Sinagoga. E poi nel pomeriggio tutti dalla bisnonna e io coi bambini al Piazzale Michelangelo e San Niccolo'. -- Giu 3, 98: Milano (in treno). Incontro alla Cattolica del gruppo di ricerca sui LXX (con Paolo Sacchi, Claudio Gianotto & Co.). Visita a S. Ambrogio. -- Giu 4, 98: Con Lorenzo e i bambini a S. Croce. Dopo-cena con Enrico visita alla caserma dei pompieri. -- Giu 5, 98: Coi bambini alla Ludoteca e poi si vedono i filmini. Ritorno a Montespertoli da Aloma. - - Giu 6, 98: Di nuovo a Firenze nel pomeriggio (in tempo per assistere alla vittoria di Pantani al Giro d'Italia). In serata, la tanto attesa "cena dei cugini" (manca solo Nicoletta).
  • Mag 28-30, 98: Firenze. Tre-giorni fiorentina con Aloma. -- - Mag 28, 98: Firenze, Teatro della Pergola, <Opera>. “Le Comte Ory” di Gioachino Rossini. -- Mag 29, 98: Incontro con il rabbino di Firenze. Vediamo “La vita e' bella” di Roberto Benigni al Cinema Adriano (stupendo film, giustamente premiatissimo) --- Mag 30, 98: Da turisti a Firenze. Mostra dei Nabis al Palazzo Corsini. Visita alla nonna Elena.
  • Lecture at Milan (via del Sambuco) -- [62] La rottura tra Sinagoga e Chiesa: uno scisma all'interno del giudaismo tra il I e il II secolo? <The Parting of the Ways between the Synagogue and the Church: A Schism within Judaism of the I-II cent. CE?> [Comunita’ di via Sambuco], Milan (Italy), May 17, 1998.
  • May 5, 1998 -- Meeting at the Synagogue with the Bishop and the Rabbi, with Dori Liscia and don Chiaroni.
  • == == == Flight to Italy (Apr 27-28, 1998) == == ==
  • Carlos and Melanie Wedding (Apr 24, 1998).
  • Passover seder with Mark Kinzer (Apr 10, 1998)
  • Apr 9, 98: Faculty Dinner.
  • Apr 3, 98: Farmington Hills. Cena con Harold Ellens e amici allo Skyline Club e concerto a Detroit con la Detroit Orchestra (Rossini, Chopin, Brahms)
  • Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways between Qumran and Enochic Judaism (Mar 30, 1998)
  • Lecture at the Frankel Center [61] Secrets from the Dead Sea Scrolls: Jewish Pluralism in the 1st Century ["The Israel at 50 Lecture Series," The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan], Oak Park, Detroit MI (USA), Mar 26, 1998.
  • Alessandro Sacchi at Ann Arbor (Mar 17, 1998)
  • Trip to Los Angeles (Mar 4-8, 1998) -- My Lecture at UCLA: "Enoch's Last Journey: From Heaven to Folklore" [University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Near Eastern Languages], Los Angeles CA (USA), Mar 5, 1998, with Bill Schniedewind
  • SBL Midwest, Milwaukee (Feb 15-17, 1998) -- By train -- Panel on “Apocalypticism, now and Then” (with James VanderKam, David Aune and John Collins) (Feb 16)
  • My Book: "Beyond the Essene Hypothesis (Feb 1, 1998)
  • George Gershwin Remembered (Jan 25, 98: Ann Arbor, Michigan Theater).
  • Recital of the Boys Choir of Harlem (Hill Auditorium, Jan 18, 1998)
  • Recital of countertenor David Daniels (Ann Arbor, Mendelssohn Theatre, Jan 9, 98).
  • University of Michigan, Winter Term 1998. "Intro to the New Testament" (undergraduate course).
  • Go Blue (Gen 1, 98: <Sport> <Football>. Vincendo il Rose Ball, i Wolverines conquistano la National Championship. -- Parade on the streets of Ann Arbor (Jan 9)

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1997 (events)

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  • Paolo Sacchi in the United States (Nov 5-26, 1997) -- Ann Arbor (Nov 5-7) -- Princeton & New York (Nov 8-15) -- My lecture at Princeton: "The Origins of Qumran in Light of the Enoch Group" ["Biblical Theology and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Jubilee Celebration," The Second Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins], Princeton NJ (USA), Nov 10, 1997. -- Ann Arbor (16-21) -- SBL Meeting, San Francisco (Panel with James Charlesworth, John Collins, and George Nickelsburg on Sacchi's book)
  • University of Michigan, Fall Term 1997: Jesus & the Gospels (undergraduate course)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Sep 15, 1997) == == ==
  • ABI Conference, Rocca di Papa (Spe 11-13, 1997) -- My Lecture: "Esiste una letteratura farisaica del Secondo Tempio?" <In Search of a Pharisaic Literature in Second Temple Judaism> [Associazione Biblica Italiana], Rocca di Papa RM (Italy), Sep 11, 1997.
  • Montespertoli, Italy, Pomino, Italy, Principina a Mare, Italy
  • Giu 30, 97: Firenze, Teatro Comunale, <Opera>. “Turandot” di Giacomo Puccini (dalla seconda galleria), con Nicola Martinucci.
  • == == == Flight to Italy (Jun 28, 1997) == == == | Detroit-Chicago-Munich-Firenze (United Airlines-Lufthansa)
  • Ben Zion Wacholder at Ann Arbor (Apr 7-8, 97).
  • Jim Charlesworth at Ann Arbor (Mar 22-25, 97).
  • Krister Stendahl at Ann Arbor (Mar 9, 97). Lecture on the Jewish-Christian Dialogue.
  • John Collins at Ann Arbor (Feb 24-25, 1997)
  • Ithamar Gruenwald at Ann Arbor (Feb 10, 1997)
  • Anthony Saldarini at Ann Arbor (Feb 3-4, 1997)
  • Jan 12, 97: Detroit, Jesus the Jew (mio intervento alla Christ Church Grosse Pointe (Episcopalian).
  • University of Michigan, Winter Term 1997: "The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their World" (incluso ciclo di conferenze con Anthony Saldarini, John Collins, James Charlesworth, e Wacholder)

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1996 (events)

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  • Trip to Germany (Dec 22 - Jan 6) -- Karlsruhe, Dresden, Berlin, Munich
  • Dec 15, 96: Ann Arbor, Winter Commencement, Crisler Arena (Dissertation Chairs; Robert Altman's Honorary Degree; Sandra Day O'Connor's Speech). Visita dagli Stolper.
  • SBL Meeting, New Orleans (Nov 21-23, 1996) -- My lecture: Wisdom and Torah in Second Temple Judaism (Nov 23) -- Italian Meeting -- Visit of the city and the alligators
  • Nov 14, 96: Ann Arbor, First Baptist Church. Mia conferenza su Jesus the Jew.
  • Nov 5, 96: Ann Arbor, Hill Auditoriun. Jesse Jackson's Speech at the University of Michigan.
  • Ott 27, 1996: Detroit. Giornata di celebrazione per la pubblicazione del facsimile del Leningrad Codex [cerimonia alla Memorial Church di Grosse Point e cena allo Yacht Club
  • University of Michigan, Fall Term 1996: "Introduction to Second Temple Judaism" (undergraduate course)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Aug 28, 1996) == == == | Firenze-Brussels-Chicago (Sabena) e Chicago-Detroit (Northwest)
  • [57] Configurazione storica della comunita di Qumran <Qumran in Context> ["Qumran e le origini cristiane" <Qumran and Christian Origins>, 6th Italian Conference of New Testament Scholars and Ancient Church Historians, organized by the Italian Biblical Association (ABI)], L'Aquila (Italy), Sep 14,
  • Principina a mare, Italy, Montespertoli, Italy, Pomino, Italy
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 25, 1996) == == == | Detroit-Chicago (Northwest) e Chicago-Brussels-Firenze (Sabena)
  • My Mother at Ann Arbor (Apr 96) -- Passover seder with Mark Kinzer (Apr 3, 1996)
  • Mar 31, 96: Detroit, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Mio intervento su Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes: Religious Movements in the Age of Jesus.
  • Mar 96: Incontro con una classe di bambini alla scuola elementare di Manchester, MI
  • Mar 19, 96: Ann Arbor. Personal Values: In or Out of the Classroom? (mio intervento in occasione del "Day of Dialogue")
  • Trip to Los Angeles (Mar 2-10, 1996) -- Lecture at UCLA: [56] Middle Judaism: The Parallel Emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism [University of California at Los Angeles], Los Angeles CA (USA), Mar 6, 1996. -- Lecture at Claremont [54-55] The Lost Prophet: Enoch [Two lectures organized by the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center at Claremont and the University of Judaism Department of Continuing Education at Los Angeles], Mudd Theatre, School of Theology, Claremont CA, Mar 4; and the University of Judaism, Los Angeles CA (USA), Mar 5, 1996. -- Musical “Beauty and the Beast” (with Ito) (Mar 3, 1996) -- Universal Studios -- “Mozart: Cosi' fan tutte” (with Paul Kim e moglie).
  • Lecture at the Hebrew Union College -- [53] Middle Judaism: The Parallel Emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism [Hebrew Union College], Cincinnati OH (USA), Feb 21, 1996.
  • Lectures at Detroit -- [51-52] Before the Mishnah: Rabbinism in the Making, and We are Twins: The Birth of Christianity and Rabbinism from First-Century Judaism [Two lectures organized by The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University, The Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies, and the Archidiocese of Detroit], St. Ives Church, Southfield (Detroit) MI (USA), Feb 15, 1996.
  • Lecture at Ann Arbor -- [50] The Pre-existence of the Torah: A Commonplace in Second Temple Judaism, or a Late Rabbinic Development? [The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at The University of Michigan], Salinger Resource Center, Ann Arbor MI (USA), Feb 8, 1996.
  • University of Michigan, Winter Term 1996 -- Teaching: "Intro to the Old Testament" (undergraduate), and "Jesus & the Gospels" (undergraduate)

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1995 (events)

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  • Christmas with the Stolpers (Dec 25, 1995)
  • Lecture by James A. Sanders (Detroit, Nov 27, 1995)
  • Trip to New York (Nov 1995) -- AAR/SBL Meeting at Philadelphia; at Princeton to visit Edmondo Lupieri and Michael Davis; musical Show Boat at Broadway; Thanksgiving's Parade at Manhattan
  • Lecture at Hope College -- [49] Middle Judaism: The Parallel Emergence of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism [Hope College], Holland MI (USA), Nov 16, 1995. By car with Brian Schmidt. Meeting with Philip Munoa.
  • Lecture at Ann Arbor -- [48] The End of Times and the Times of the End in the Jewish and Christian Traditions ["Death & Extinction Semester Faculty Seminar," organized by the Program on Studies in Religion of the University of Michigan], Ann Arbor MI (USA), Oct 20, 1995.
  • <> Verdict at the O.J. Simpson Trial (Oct 3, 1995)
  • 4th Year at the University of Michigan (as Adjunct Professor) (Fall 1995 - Winter 1996) -- 4th Year at Cram Place (North Campus) -- Teaching, Fall Term 1995 (Theme-Semester: Death, Extinction and the Future of Humankind): "Introduction to Second Temple Judaism" (undergraduate course), and "Herodotus and the Early Jewish Historiography" (graduate seminar)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Sep 18, 1995) == == ==
  • ABI Meeting at L'Aquila (Sep 14-17, 1995) -- My lecture: "Configurazione storica della comunita’ di Qumran"
  • Moving from Florence (Canto de' Nelli) to Montespertoli (Aldo Moro) (Jul 1995)
  • Poggibonsi, Villa del Casalino, with Aloma and her mother.
  • == == == Flight to Italy (Jun 22, 1995) == == ==
  • University of Michigan, Spring 1995. Teaching: "Jesus and the Movies" (undergraduate course)
  • Course at the Ecumenical Theological Seminaru of Detroit (Apr 24-28, 1995) -- Trip to Windsor, Canada
  • Mark Kinzer's Defence (Apr 21, 1995)
  • Charles Gieschen's Defence (Apr 17, 1995)
  • Trip to Los Angeles (Mar 18-25, 1995) -- Lectures at Los Angeles [46-47] Middle Judaism: The Twin Birth of Christianity and Rabbinism from First-Century Judaisms [Two lectures organized by the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center at Claremont and the University of Judaism at Los Angeles], Claremont CA (USA), Mar 20, 1995, and Los Angeles (USA), Mar 21, 1995. -- At Disneyland with Paul Kim -- Opera with Ito
  • To Italy to buy the the house in Montespertoli (Feb 18-25, 1995)
  • Feb 8, 95: Ann Arbor, First United Methodist Church. Mio intervento on Worlds Religions in Dialogue, una tavola rotonda con Alexander Knysh.
  • Feb 1, 95: Ann Arbor, First United Methodist Church. -- Mio intervento su Jewish and Christian Spirituality.
  • University of Michigan, Winter Term 1995. Teaching: "The Pharisees and their Heirs, the Rabbis" (undergraduate course), and "Jews and Christians: From Contempt to Dialogue" (first-year seminar)

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1994 (events)

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  • Dec 8-9, 94: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan. Symposium sul misticismo giudaico (con Alan Segal)
  • Dec 2-3, 94: Detroit. Gita da Lynne e Ross Kogel (visita al Ford Museum)
  • SBL, Chicaco (Nov 1994), with Harold Ellens and Mark Kinzer -- [45] The Preexistence of the Torah: A Commonplace in Early Judaism, or a Later Rabbinic Development? / SBL American Meeting / Chicago IL (USA), Nov 19, 1994.
  • Nov 15, 94: Ann Arbor. Esce su “The Ann Arbor News” uno intervista fattami da Robert L. Romaker: “U-M Scholar Draws Inspiration of Forebears”
  • Nov 3, 94: Farmington Hills, Istitute for Secular Humanistic Jews. My lecture on "Christian and Rabbinic Origins".
  • [44] Christian and Rabbinic Origins / Seminar organized by the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Jews, Rabbinic Program / Detroit MI (USA), Nov 3, 1994.
  • 3rd Year at the University of Michigan (as Adjunct Professor) (Fall 1994 - Winter 1995) -- 3rd Year at Cram Place (North Campus) -- Teaching (Fall 1994): "Pirke Avot and the Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism" (graduate seminar), and "Jewish, Christian and Gentile Responses to the Destruction of Jerusalem" (undergraduate seminar)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Set 17, 94) == == == | FlightFirenze-Brussels-Chicago (Sabena) e Chicago-Detroit (Northwest)
  • [43] L'universalismo dal postesilio all'apocalittica <Universalistic Perspectives in Second Temple Judaism> / "Lo straniero nella Bibbia. Aspetti storici, istituzionali e teologici" <Jews and Gentiles in Biblical Times>, 23rd Biblical Conference, organized by the Italian Biblical Association at the Pontifical Biblical Institute / Rome (Italy), Sep 14, 1994.
  • Pomino (Aug 1994), with my mother and brother.
  • Poggibonsi, Villa del Casalino (Jul 1994), with Aloma and her mother.
  • Strauss: Salome. Opera (Florence, Teatro comunale, May 22 - Jun 4, 1994) -- Salome Films (May 21 - Jun 4, 1994)
  • Lectura a badia Fiesolana on "Origini parallele di cristianesimo e giudaismo rabbinico" (May 20, 1994)
  • Lectures at Bergamo -- [41-42] Il medio giudaismo: premesse metodologiche <Middle Judaism: Methodological Foundations>, and Il medio giudaismo e le origini cristiane <Middle Judaism and Christian Origins> / Two lectures organized by La Porta Cultural Center / Bergamo (Italy), May 19, 1994
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 11, 1994) == == == | Detroit-Chicago (Northwest) e Chicago-Brussels-[Lione]-Bologna (Sabena)
  • UofM Commencement, Platform Party (Apr 30, 1994)
  • [40] Antisemitism and Dialogue in Continental Europe After the Holocaust / “15th Annual Conference on the Holocaust,” Hillel Foundation / Ann Arbor MI (USA), Mar 17, 1994.
  • [39] Ancient Texts Bearing on the Role of Women in the Jewish and Christian Faith Communities / "Scholar Trialog: Muslim, Christian, Jewish Leadership Forum," Lecture Series organized by the Greater Detroit Interfaith Round Table of The National Conference of Christians and Jews / Detroit MI (USA), Mar 15, 1994.
  • Mar 13, 94: Ann Arbor, <Film>. *Undzere Kinder / Our Children* (Poland, 1948)
  • [38] The Emergence of the Concept of the Devil in the Ancient Jewish and Christian Traditions / "Evil Semester Faculty Seminar," organized by the Program on Studies in Religion of the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor MI (USA), Mar 11, 1994.
  • Lectures at the First Presbyterian Church on "First-Century Judaisms" (Feb 26, 1994), and "Jesus the Jew (Mar 6, 1994)
  • [37] Middle Judaism and Christian Origins / [Lecture organized by the Catholic Theological Union] / Chicago IL (USA), Feb 2, 1994 / with H. Perelmuter
  • [36] Middle Judaism: The Contribution of Judaism to Hellenistic Thought / [Lecture organized by the Dept. of Classical Studies of the University of Michigan] / Ann Arbor MI (USA), Jan 27, 1994.
  • University of Michigan Teaching, Winter Term 1994 (Theme-Semester: The Theory and Practise of Evil): "The Origin of Evil in Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Tradition" (undergraduate course), and "The Book of Jubilees and the Beginning of the Essene Movement" (graduate seminar)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Jan 10, 1994) == == == | Florence-London (Meridiana) and London-Detroit (Delta)
  • 14th Colloquio ebraico-cristiano di Camaldoli (Jan 2-6, 1994) -- Workshop with Bruno Di Porto on paul the Jew

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1993 (events)

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  • Christmas with mother and brother
  • == == == Flight to Italy (Dec 18, 1993) == == ==
  • SBL, Washington (Nov 19-25, 1993) -- My lecture: [35] Pseudo-Philo as Evidence of Formative Rabbinic Judaism / SBL American Meeting / Washington DC (USA), Nov 20, 1993.
  • 2nd Year at the University of Michigan (as Adjunct Professor) (Fall 1993 - Winter 1994) -- 2nd Year at Cram Place (North Campus) -- Teaching (Fall 1993): "Philo of Alexandria" (graduate seminar), and "Intro to the Jewish Hellenistic Tradition" (undergraduate seminar)
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Sep 19, 1993) == == == | Train to Rome - Flight Rome-New York-Detroit (Alitalia)
  • ABI Conferences in Seiano (near Naples) (Sep 15-18, 1993)
    • [34] Apocalissi giudaiche coeve all'Apocalisse di Giovanni <Jewish Apocalypses contemporaneous to the Apocalypsis of John> / 5th Conference of New Testament Studies, organized by the Italian Biblical Association (ABI) / Seiano NA (Italy), Sep 17, 1993.
    • [33] La figura di Davide nei giudaismi di eta ellenistico-romana <David in the Judaisms of the Hellenistic-Roman Period> / 8th Conference of Old Testament Studies, organized by the Italian Biblical Association (ABI)c/ Seiano NA (Italy), Sep 14, 1993.
    • At Amalfi and Psitano with paolo Sacchi and Giovanni Garbini -- At Ercolano with Sacchi
  • Poggibonsi, Villa del Casalino (with Aloma and her mother)
  • Trip to Germany (Karlsruhe and Munster, July 1993) -- Lecture to the International SBL, Germany -- [32] Targum Neofiti as a Source of Second-Century Formative Rabbinic Judaism / SBL International Meeting / Munster (Germany), Jul 26, 1993.
  • Trip to Verona and Venice (Jun 25-26, 1993) - with the Pelosos in Verona, Wedding in Venice of Simone Morandini and Antonella Bullo.
  • Presentation of Aloma's volume on Gershwin (Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Jun 23, 1993), with Morelli and Pinzauti)
  • Presentation of my book on Middle Judaism (Florence, Biblioteca nazionale, Jun 2, 1993), with Paolo Sacchi and Wanda Lattes.
  • [31] Origini parallele di cristianesimo e rabbinismo <Parallel Origins of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism> / Lecture organized by the Waldensian Cultural Center, and Claudiana Publisher / Milan (Italy), Jun 2, 1993.
  • Bomba agli Uffizi di Firenze in via dei Georgofili (May 27, 1993)
  • Trip to Paris, France for the wedding of Gianfranco Vinay and Mariamne (May 1993)
  • 2nd Premio Walter Boccaccini (Scuoal di Musica di Fiesole, May 10, 1993 -- (Simone Toni, oboe).
  • Aloma's Presentation of the book on George Gershwin (Milan, Piccola Scala, May 8, 1993), with Aloma Bardi, Gianfranco Vinay, Carlo Piccardi, Riccardo Scivalis | We are hosted at Milan by Gianni e Myriam Marcheselli.
  • == == == Flight to Italy (May 7-8, 1993) -- Detroit-New York-Milan (TWA)
  • Phillip B. Munoa's Doctoral Defence (May 6, 1993)
  • UofM Commencement 1993 -- Speech by Hillary Rodham Clinton -- May 1, 1993
  • [30] Targum Neofiti as Evidence of Second-Century Rabbinic Judaism / Faculty Lecture, organized by the Dept. of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor MI (USA), Apr 12, 1993.
  • My Book: "Il medio giudaismo" (Mar 1, 1993)
  • Siege at the Branch Davidians Headquarters at Waco TX (Feb 28 - Apr 19, 1993)
  • First terror attack at the World Trade Center (Feb 26, 1993)
  • University of Michigan, Winter 1993 -- "Pseudo-Philo and the Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism" (graduate seminar), and "The Legacy of the Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition" (undergraduate course)

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1992 (events)

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  • Christmas with the Fossums and the Ellens (Dec 25, 1992)
  • Lecture bu John Van Seters (Dec 10, 1992)
  • My Book: "Portraits of Middle Judaism" (Dec 1, 1992)
  • Presidential Election: Bill Clinton is elected President (Nov 3, 1992)
  • Visit of Bill Clinton at Ann Arbor -- His speech in front of Rackham (Oct 19, 1992)
  • Lecture series at Ann Arbor on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Set-Nov 92)
    • Set 21, 92: Lecture by Emanuel Tov
    • Ott 13, 92: Lecture by James VanderKam
    • Nov 16, 92: Lecture by Lawrence Schiffman
    • Nov 30, 92: Lecture by Philip Davies
  • 1st Year at the University of Michigan (as Adjunct Professor) (Fall 1992 - Winter 1993) -- 1st Year at Cram Place (North Campus) -- Graduate seminar: "Middle Judaism", and undergraduate course: "Jews, Christians, and Gentiles"
  • == == == Flight to the United States (Sep 6-7, 1992) == == == | Pisa-London (night in Hotel)-Montreal-Detroit (British Airways)
  • Poggibonsi. Villa del Casalino (with Manola)
  • Targum Conference in Dublin, Ireland | Jul 14-24, 1992 -- [29] Targum Neofiti as a Proto-Rabbinic Document: A Systemic Analysis / "The Aramaic Bible: Targums in Their Historical Context," International Conference organized by the Royal Irish Academy / Dublin (Ireland), Jul 15, 1992 |with Aloma and my mother
  • Pellegrinaggio europeo, da Genova a Assisi | Jun 11, 1992 | My lecture of the expulsion of Jews from Spain
  • Sinodo della Chiesa fiorentina. Sessioni finali (Jun 1-6, 1992)
  • 1st Premio Walter Boccaccini -- Fiesole, Scuola di Musica, May 9, 1992
  • Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher | Florence, Teatro della Pergola, May 7, 1992 -- with Billy Short who spends a week with us in Florence.
  • Lecture at the AEC-Turin -- [27-28] Paolo ebreo <Paul the Jew> / Two lectures organized by the Turin and Florence Councils of Christians and Jews / Turin (Italy), Apr 8, 1992, and Florence (Italy), Jun 11, 1992.
  • Mini-course at the Waldensian School of Theology on "Middle Judaism" and "Paul and James" (Mar 25, 1992) -- Meeting Sacchi-Charlesworth (Mar 26) -- Lecture by j. Charlesworth (Mar 27)
  • Lecture on Jewish-Christian Dialogue at Collegio della Querce | Jan 17, 1992 | with Mons. Angelo Chiaroni, Manuela Sadun Paggi, Emanuele Viterbi, Fabrizio Lelli, Silvia Baldi, Gabriele Boccaccini
  • Death and Funeral of don Leto Casini (Chiesa della Madonna delle Grazie, Florence, Jan 1, 1992) | with rav Umberto Sciunnach

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1991 (events)

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  • ===== Flight to Italy (Dec 29, 1991) == == == | New York JFK - Milano Malpensa (Alitalia)
  • Christmas in Seattle (Dec 25, 1991)
  • Verdi: "Attila". Opera (Dec 1991) -- San Francisco Opera House
  • Visiting Scholar at the Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, CA | Nov 27, Dec 27 |
  • SBL Meeting in Kansas City, MO -- [26] Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and the Arts / SBL American Meeting / Kansas City MO (USA), Nov 24, 1991.
  • [25] Universalism: A Christian Exclusive? [Lecture organized by the William Jewell College], Liberty MO (USA), Nov 21, 1991.
  • [24] Do This In Remembrance of Me [Lecture organized by the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary], Lombard IL (USA), Nov 12, 1991.
  • Trip to Athens, GA | Nov 15-17, 1991 | with Elena Bianchelli e Timothy Gantz
  • Fortress Lecture Tour -- [15-23] Middle Judaism, 300 BCE - 200 CE: Toward a Comprehensive and Bias-Free Approach to Second Temple Judaism | USA, Oct 29 - Nov 14, 1991
    • Barnard College, New York City NY [Oct 29], with Alan Segal
    • Furman University, Greenville SC [Oct 30]
    • Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC [Oct 31]
    • Duke University, Durham NC [Nov 4], with J.P. Sanders
    • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA [Nov 6]
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI [Nov 7], with Jarl Fossum
    • Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard IL [Nov 12]
    • University of Chicago, Chicago IL [Nov 13], with the Collins
    • Bethany Theological Seminary, Oak Brook IL [Nov 14])
  • My Book: "Middle Judaism" (Oct 25, 1991)
  • Visit at Princeton Theological Seminary (Oct 21-29, 1991) | Adam's House
  • ===== Flight to the United States (Oct 21, 1991) == == == | Milan-New York (Alitalia)
  • Sinodo della Chiesa Fiorentina - Press Conference (Sep 21, 1991) -- Assemblee sinodali at S. Maria Novella (Oct 7-10, 1991)
  • Poggibonsi, Villa del Casalino, with Aloma and her mother
  • SAE Meeting at La Mendola (Jul 27- Aug 2, 1991) -- My 12th participation.
  • International SBL, Rome (Jul 15, 1991) - My lecture on Middle Judaism -- with Jarl Fossum, Harold Ellens, and Michael Davis.
  • Doctoral Defence, Rome -- Jun 26, 1991 -- Profs. Vattioni, Tamani and Gaeta - With Aloma and Alberto Camplani.
  • Death of My Father-in-law, Dino Bardi (1918-1991) (May 17, 1991)
  • Lecture in Florence -- [13] Alle radici della non-violenza cristiana <At the Roots of the Christian Non-Violence> [Lecture organized by the Melauri Center (Spazio Melauri)] / Florence (Italy), Apr 30, 1991.
  • Death of My Father, Walter Boccaccini (1927-1991) (Jan 6, 1991) -- Funeral at Madonna della Tosse

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1990 (events)

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  • 11th Colloquio ebraico-cristiano (Camaldoli, Italy; Dec 1990)
  • My translation: "Gli pseudoepigrafi dell'Antico Testamento e il Nuovo Testamento" by J. Charlesworth (1990)
  • Lecture at SAE-Florence [12] Che cos'e l'apocalittica? <Jewish Apocalypticism> / "Apocalisse e apocalittica" <Apocalypsis and Apocalyptic>, Lecture Series organized by the Florence Group of the Italian Ecumenical Association (SAE-Firenze)], St. Mark Monastery / Florence (Italy), Oct 25, 1990.
  • Sinodo della Chiesa Fiorentina, Assemblee di zona (Sep-Nov 1990)
  • ICCJ Conference in Prague | Aug 26-30, 1990 | Trpi to Terezin (Aug 29)
  • ===== Flight to Italy (end July) == == == | New York-Rome-Pisa
  • Trip to Washington (Jul 1990)
  • Conference at Philadelphia: "Purified Preaching: Learning from Jewish and Christian Sermons” (Mag 5-7, 1990) | with J. Charlesworth and Loren Stuckenbruck
  • Travel to Dallas, Houston and San Francisco...
  • Second Year as Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary (Winter-Spring 1990) | Payna Hall | with Joel Marcus, John Barclay, Jacob Neusner, James Charlesworth, Joe e Grace Prokasim, Michael Davis...
  • ===== Flight to the United States (Feb 1, 1990) == == == | Pisa-Roma-New York (Alitalia) -- Michael Davis comes to the airport to pick us up.

1980s ~ 1980s ~ 1980s

Paolo Sacchi
Benedetto Calati
Fioretta Mazzei
Manuela Paggi Sadun
Francesco Adorno
Maria VIngiani
Innocenzo Gargano
University of Turin
Passo della Mendola
Camaldoli
Villa Lorenzi, Florence

The Italian Experience

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.

Articles

1987 (articles)

  • [10] E' Daniele un testo apocalittico? Una (ri)definizione del pensiero del Libro di Daniele in rapporto al Libro dei sogni e all'apocalittica <Is Daniel an Apocalyptic Document? A (Re-)Definition of Daniel's Thought in Relation to Dream Visions and Apocalyptic Tradition> / Henoch 9 (1987), 267-302

1986 (articles)

  • [8] Origine del male, liberta dell'uomo e retribuzione nella Sapienza di Ben Sira <The Origin of Evil, Human Freedom, and the Principle of Retribution in the Wisdom of Sirach> / Henoch 8 (1986), 1-37

1985 (articles)

  • [5] Il tema della memoria nell'ebraismo e nel giudaismo antico <The Concept of Memory in Ancient Israel> / Henoch 7 (1985), 165-192.

1984 (articles)

  • [4] Il valore memoriale dell'atto eucaristico alla luce della tradizione giudaica <The Memorial Value of Eucharist in the Light of the Jewish Tradition> / Gesu ebreo (1984 Gargano), edited volume, 104-117.
  • [3] Il tema della memoria in Giuseppe Flavio <The Concept of Memory in Flavius Josephus> / Henoch 6 (1984), 147-163.
  • [2] Il concetto di memoria in Filone Alessandrino <Memory as a Philosophical and Religious Concept in Philo of Alexandria> / Annali dell'Istituto di Filosofia 6 (1984), 1-19.

1982 (articles)

Lectures

1989 (lectures)

  • [11] La nascita del giudaismo rabbinico <The Birth of Rabbinic Judaism> / Salesian University of Turin / Turin [Italy], Oct 29, 1989
  • [10] Second Temple Judaism as "Middle" Judaism / Princeton Theological Seminary / Princeton NJ [USA], Apr 24, 1989

1988 (lectures)

  • [9] Il nuovo atteggiamento delle Chiese cristiane nei confronti dell'ebraismo <The New Attitude of Christian Churches Toward Judaism> / "Ecumenism Today, with Reference to Other Religions," International Conference organized by the Universitas Internationalis "Coluccio Salutati"] / Rabat (Malta), Jun 21, 1988.
  • [8] Ebrei ed Ebraismo nella Lettera di Giacomo <Judaism and the Jews in the Letter of James> / "Ebrei ed Ebraismo nel Nuovo Testamento" <Judaism and the Jews in the New Testament>, Lecture Series organized by the Rome Council of Christians and Jews in collaboration with the "Ecclesia Mater" Institute of Religious Studies] / Rome (Italy), Mar 28, 1988.

1987 (lectures)

  • [7] L'azione dello Spirito di Dio nell'individuo e nella storia: la riflessione del tardo giudaismo <The Action of the Holy Spirit upon History and the Individual: Early Jewish Perspectives> / "Lo Spirito nell'esperienza religiosa" <The Holy Spirit in the Religious Experience>, Lecture Series organized by the Genoa Group of the Italian Ecumenical Association (SAE-Genova)] / Genoa (Italy), Dec 13, 1987.
  • [6] La sapienza dello Pseudo-Aristea <The Wisdom of the Pseudo-Aristeas> / National Conference of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo / San Miniato [Italy], Nov 3, 1987
  • [5] La pericope della lingua (Gc. 3,2-12) nel contesto della tradizione sapienziale giudaica <The Tongue Pericope (James 3:2-12) in the Light of the Jewish Wisdom Tradition> / University of Turin / Turin [Italy], Apr 28, 1987

1986 (lectures)

  • [4] Il cristianesimo delle origini come movimento giudaico <Early Christianity as a Jewish Movement> / Lecture organized by the Venice Lutheran Church and the Venice Group of the Italian Ecumenical Association (SAE-Venezia) / Venice (Italy), Nov 23, 1986.

1984 (lectures)

  • [3] Il dibattito sul valore salvifico della Torah nel I secolo <The Debate on the Salvific Value of the Torah in First-Century Judaism> / 5th Colloquio Ebraico-Cristiano di Camaldoli / Camaldoli [Italy], Dec 7, 1984

1983 (lectures)

  • [2] Il valore memoriale dell'atto eucaristico alla luce della tradizione giudaica <The Memorial Value of Eucharist in the Light of the Jewish Tradition> / 4th Colloquio Ebraico-Cristiano di Camaldoli / Camaldoli [Italy], Dec 9, 1983

1981 (lectures)

  • [1] L'interpretazione di Gen 1,26 in Filone Alessandrino <The Interpretation of Gen 1:26 in Philo of Alexandria> / 2nd Colloquio Ebraico-Cristiano di Camaldoli / Camaldoli [Italy], Dec 8, 1981

Translations

1989 (translations)

  • [1] I dieci comandamenti del dialogo, Italian translation of Leonard Swidler’s The Dialogue Decalogue ["Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana" 24 (1989) 59-64].

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1970s ~ 1970s ~ 1970s

University of Florence
Liceo Dante Alighieri
Great Synagogue of Florence
Chiesa della Madonna della Tosse

The Formative Years

Mario Gozzini
Luciano Martini
Ernesto Balducci
Raniero La Valle

The 1970 are the formative years, the years in which Boccaccini had his first public experiences.

In the last year of the Middle School Boccaccini was selected as one of the five members of the jury of the National Literary Price "Bancarellino" at Pontremoli. The event was broadcast live on Italian television. It was the first time Boccaccini and his brother travelled alone.

In June 1971 there were the final exams and Boccaccini won the award "La pagella migliore" as one of the best students in Tuscany. Completed his primary education, he attended the Liceo Classico "Dante Alighieri" in Florence, from 1971 to 1976. He studied Latin, Greek, History, Philosophy. In July 1973 he spent one month in England to practice his English. He passed the Final Exams (Maturita' classica) in July 1976 with the highest grades. He wrote a Honor Thesis on "I cattolici, la Bibbia e la vita pubblica in Italia (1815-1976) <The Catholics, the Bible and the Political Life in Italy (1815-1976)>.

In 1976 he enrolled at the College of Humanities at the University of Florence, where he attended courses and seminars on Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Hellenistic History and Philosophy, Church History, New Testament, and Christian Origins. Among his professors were Francesco Adorno, Pelio Fronzaroli, Ida Zatelli, Michele Ranchetti, Giancarlo Gaeta, Domenico Maselli, Luciano Martini, and others.

He also enrolled at the Florence School of Theology, where he attended courses on OT and NT Exegesis, and Christian Theology by professors Valerio Mannucci, Lino Randellini, Enrico Chiavacci, and others.

Since 1975 he volunteered as an instructor in summer camps for children, first in Puglia (1975) and then in Gaeta (1976). With the Centro Tempo Libero (CTL) he took part in summer camps and theatrical performances in Trieste (1977), Abbadia San Salvatore (1978), and Muggia (1979).

In Florence he attended the circles of the "Christian Left" that gathered at the Chiesa della Madonna della Tossa: Mario e Wilma Gozzini, Luciano Martini, don Angelo Chiaroni, padre Ernesto Balducci, padre Benedetto Calati, padre Innocenzo Gargano, padre Emanuele Bargellini, Mons. Silvano Piovanelli, Enrico Chiavacci, Raniero La Valle, pastore Luigi Santini, and others. On the other hand, the friendship with Vittorio Lampronti put him in touch even more closely with the Amicizia Ebraico-Cristiana di Firenze and the Jewish community of Florence.

With his involvement in the ecumenical movements (attending since 1978 the annual summer conferences of the Segretariato Attivita' Ecumeniche [SAE] at La Mendola and the meetings of the Journal "Bozze"), he got acquainted with the major leaders in the inter-faith movements in Italy, Maria Vingiani, pastors Paolo Ricca, Mario Affuso, Santini, and others.

Lectures

1977

  • Radio conversation with Ernesto Balducci e Giovanni Gozzini (Feb 1, 1977)

1976

  • I cattolici tra impegno sociale e impegno politico (round table with Gabriele Boccaccini, Luciano Martini, Luciano Benadusi and Alberto Cecchi

1960s ~ 1960s ~ 1960s

Scuola media Pieraccini
Lorenzo Milani
Scuola elementare Battisti
Walter Boccaccini and Franco Zeffirelli

Childhood

I grew up in Florence with my parents and my brother Lorenzo in an apartment on Via Puccinotti. At the age of five, I started attending the nearby Cesare Battisti Elementary School, a year earlier than usual in Italy. I had already learned to write and read from my brother. Maestro Mario Bini was my beloved teacher. After the five-year course, in 1968 I transferred to the Gaetano Pieraccini Middle School.

During my elementary school years, my little world was confined to the neighborhood around the Giardino dell'Agricoltura, where I played every day with my friends. Our parents were very busy with work; my brother and I spent a lot of time with our maternal grandparents and summer holidays with them. When I started middle school, the center of my social life became Piazza della Vittoria, where my brother and I played soccer every day with the other neighborhood children. As was customary at the time, we were now given complete freedom without parental supervision. The company of our friends became our second family.

Besides school and sports, our entertainment was mainly music and television. Our parents introduced us to classical music (concerts and operas), which we immediately loved. Popular music was also an important part of our lives. The Sanremo Music Festival and the Zecchino d'Oro provided us with many songs we could listen to and sing with our friends.

After graduating from the University of Florence, my mother began a teaching career. Working in Calenzano and later in Scarperia and Isolotto (Florence), she came into contact with the educational experiences of Don Lorenzo Milani and Don Enzo Mazzi.

My father now worked as an opera director in Florence and elsewhere (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece), which meant my family was in constant contact with some of the most famous singers and conductors of the time. In the summer of 1964, my brother and I joined our parents for a month in Spain on one of my father's many theater tours.

A deep appreciation for education, culture, music, and opera are the lasting legacy I inherited from my childhood.

1950s~1950s~1950s

Family

Lapide i caduti della famiglia Boccaccini per mano fascista (Otello Boccaccini e Fosco Moretti)
Lapide ai caduti della famiglia Ghinozzi-Nissim, vittime dell'Olocausto
Virgilio Boccaccini

Gabriele Boccaccini was born in Florence, Italy, on March 24, 1958 to Walter Boccaccini and Maria Adelaide Ghinozzi. They had married in 1955 and had already a son, Lorenzo, born in 1956.

Walter Boccaccini worked at the Florence Opera House. His father, Virgilio, had also been employed at the Teatro Comunale since its foundation in 1928, until his death in 1947. In 1958, after his apprenticeship as a clerk, Walter had just started his career at an assistant stage director. During the Fascist regime, Walter's family had suffered discrimination for political reasons and during the war they were active in the underground against the Nazi occupation. Two of Walter's uncles were killed in a retaliatory attack by the fascists in the days of the liberation of Florence in August 1944.

Maria Adelaide Ghinozzi came from a family who had a long tradition of volunteering in the military since the time of Garibaldi. They mixed with the Jewish Nissim family. The members of the Nissim family suffered discrimination as a consequence of the Racial Law and some were victims of the Holocaust during the war.

The value of antifascism, respect for social service and appreciation for his Jewish ties are the hallmarks of identity that Boccaccini inherited from his family at birth and has always looked back with pride.

Events

1959 (events)

  • Sep 22-28, 1959 -- My father's first tour in Spain. First directing credits.
  • Jan 25, 1959 -- Pope John XXIII calls the Second Vatican Council.

1958 (events)

  • Oct 28, 1958 -- Election of Pope John XXIII
  • Oct 9, 1958 -- Death of Pope Pious XII

Websites

Courses

Undergraduate courses

Graduate courses

External links

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