Pietro Boccaccio (M / Italy, 1910-2006), scholar
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Pietro Boccaccio (1910-2006) was an Italian scholar, Jesuit and Catholic priest. Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Born in Turin, Italy, he entered the Jesuit Order in 1926, graduated from the University of Padua in 1938 and was ordained a priest in 1941, completing his studies at the Pontifical Biblical institute in 1943-46. He joined the P.I.B. Faculty in 1949, where he taught Hebrew and Aramic until 1985. Was among the first scholars in Italy to study and publish the texts from Qumran.
Works
Books
- Serekh ha-yahad / Regula unionis seu manuale disciplinae (1953 Boccaccio, Berardi), book
- Interpretatio Habacuc (1955 Boccaccio, Berardi), book
- Regula Congregationis (1959 Boccaccio, Berardi), book
- Regula Belli seu Bellum Filiorum Lucis Contra Filios Obscuritas (1960 Boccaccio), book