Category:Historical Jesus Studies--Italian
The category: Historical Jesus Studies--Italian, includes scholarly and fictional works in Italian language dealing with Historical Jesus Studies.
![]() HJS (Italian) -- History of research -- Overview Since the Renaissance Italy had a long tradition of artistic and literary retellings of the life of Jesus, culminated in the masterpieces of Aretino and Metastasio and popularized in the 18th century by the production of numerous oratorios. No Italian scholar contributed to the international rise of modern critical research on the Historical Jesus, which was prompted by the publication in 1774-78 of the work of Hermann Samuel Reimarus. In the period preceding the Italian Unification, the Roman Catholic Church maintained a strict control of the cultural and religious life, effectively blocking the publication of any non-conformist voice. The most popular "Lives of Jesus" of early 19th-century Italy were literary works of spiritual edification, composed by Catholic prelates of great erudition, such as Antonio Cesari, Giuseppe Lorini and Cardinal Alfonso Capecelatro. Their scope did not go beyond the objective of providing a harmonization of the gospels to create elegant and consistent historical-biographical narratives. The news of the emerging scholarly debate on the Historical Jesus reached Italy as the echoes of far-away heresies. Beginnings of Critical Scholarship (second half of the 19th century)The only conspicuous exception is given by historian Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini, who in 1853, challenging censorship and risking jail, made available to Italian readers the most advanced results of international research. His "Critica degli Evangeli" had to be published in Zurich, Switzerland and only in the 1860s, after the Unification, could be reissued in Milan. Bianchi-Giovini remained a brilliant, yet isolated figure of precursor in the field of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. The establishment of the Italian State in 1861 created a new climate of religious freedom. A more solid beginning was provided by the translation of the works of David Friedrich Strauss and Ernest Renan in 1863. In a field hitherto monopolized by Catholic theologians and priests, the publication of such works was in itself a great accomplishment and as expected, was followed by a flow of scandalized judgments and apologetic responses. Things were changing rapidly, however. Italy was now officially a liberal State which in 1870 successfully completed its battle against the temporal power of the Church and conquered Rome as its new capital. In 1873, following the abolition of the Faculties of Theology in Italy, the first chair of History of Christianity was established at the University of Naples. Liberal ideas penetrated also among Catholic authors. Luigi Arosio distinguished himself as the first Catholic NT scholar. In 1890, with his Life of Jesus illustrated by the Best Artists, Ruggeri Bonghi, a friend of Antonio Rosmini and Alessandro Manzoni, a professor of Latin literature and ancient history and founder in 1862 of the newspaper La Stampa, was the first author to inaugurate the Italian tradition of journalists and writers to compete successfully in this literary genre still largely reserved for authors ecclesiastical. The public was also exposed to the first romanticized "apocryphal" versions of the life of Jesus, being they characterized by a new and provocative look at ancient sources (the Judas of Petruccelli or the socialist Jesus of Giannelli) or instead animated by a reverent attitude toward the tradition (the Ben-Hur of Wallace, or The Centurion" by Routhier). 1900sAt the turn of the century, with the consolidation of the Italian State, we have the first scholarly contributions by Italian University professors Alessandro Chiappelli and Baldassare Labanca, both in line with the approach of the European Liberal School. At the beginning of the twentieth century the development of the international “Modernist” movement in Roman Catholicism prompted the rise also of an Italian school promoting a rationalistic approach to Scriptures across established religious boundaries (University professors Adolfo Omodeo, Ernesto Buonaiuti, Luigi Salvatorelli, and Pietro Martinetti, as well as Jewish scholars Felice Momigliano and Israele Zolli, Protestant scholars Piero Chiminelli e Giovanni Luzzi, and Catholic scholars Leone Tondelli and Giuseppe Ricciotti). The condemnation of Modernism by Pope Pius X in 1907, the rise of Fascism in the ‘20s and especially, the Concordat of 1929 between Fascist Italy and the Vatican, and the anti-Jewish racial law in 1938, caused a progressive yet dramatic decline in the freedom of research and the end of this creative experience. The generation of Modernism would have no heirs. 1910s
1920s1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990sIt would take 40 years to see a new beginning and blossoming of an Italian school in the 1980s and 1990s, after the Second Vatican Council laid the foundations for a renewed interest in historical research and fostered a new climate of freedom and ecumenical dialogue. The seminal work of Carlo Maria Martini, rector of the Pontifical Biblical institute in the 1970s, prepares the path for the emergence of a new generation of Italian scholars: University professors Giorgio Jossa, Mauro Pesce, and Paolo Sacchi, as well as Theological Seminary professors Giuseppe Barbaglio, Rinaldo Fabris, Bruno Maggioni, and Giuseppe Segalla. The future of Italian scholarly research on Jesus today appears brighter as more Italian scholars in the field are engaged in international ventures (Mauro Pesce, Paolo Sacchi, Giorgio Jossa, Marcello Del Verme) or teach abroad (Enrico Norelli, Gabriele Boccaccini, Pierluigi Piovanelli, Edmondo Lupieri). Yet there are three major obstacles: the precarious situation of studies in religion in Italian Universities and Seminaries; the lasting influence of religious conservatism against the historical method; and the difficulty for young researchers and scholars to find academic positions. What will follow the generation of the Second Vatican Council is yet to be seen. 2000s2010s
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Pages in category "Historical Jesus Studies--Italian"
The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 304 total.
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- Il figlio di Dio = Der Sohn Gottes (The Son of God / 1984 Hengel / Cessi, Soffritti), book (Italian ed.)
- Fratello Gesù: un punto di vista ebraico sul Nazareno (1985 Ben-Chorin), book (Italian ed.)
- La cristologia del Nuovo Testamento (1985 Segalla), book
- Gesù (1986 Grant / Osimo), book (Italian ed.)
- Storia della ricerca sulla vita di Gesù (1986 Schweitzer / Coppellotti), book (Italian ed.)
- L'ultima tentazione = The Last Temptation (1987 Kazantzakis / Aboaf), novel (Italian ed.)
- Vita di Gesù (Life of Jesus / 1987 Rovella), novel
- Figlio dell'uomo (1989 Angeli), novel
- Gesù visto dai contemporanei = Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament (1989 Bruce / Corsani, Tomasetto), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù e le donne = Jesus and Women (1989 Parazzoli / Musio), non-fiction
- == == 1990s == == ==
- Gesù ebreo (Jesus the Jew / 1990 Calimani), non-fiction
- Gesù Cristo, il Santo di Dio (Jesus Christ: The Holy One of God / 1990 Cantalamessa), book
- Giovanni e Gesù: storia di un antagonismo (1991 Lupieri), book
- Il vangelo secondo Gesù Cristo (1991 Saramago / Desti), novel (Italian ed.)
- Il cosiddetto Gesù storico e l'autentico Cristo biblico = Der sogenannte historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus (The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ / 1992 @1892 Kähler / Sorrentino), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù e il giudaismo = Jesus and Judaism (1992 @1985 Sanders / Stefani), book (Italian ed.)
- La sentenza (1993 Artale), novel
- Gesù di Nazaret: annuncio e storia = Jesus von Nazaret: Botschaft und Geschichte (Jesus of Nazareth: Message and History / 1993 @1990 Gnilka / Tomasoni), book (Italian ed.)
- La predicazione di Gesù sul regno di Dio = Die Predigt Jesu vom Reiche Gottes (Jesus' Proclamation of the Kingdom of God / 1993 @1892 Weiss), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù nel giudaismo del suo tempo = Jesus within Judaism (1994 @1988 Charlesworth / Tomasetto), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù: una biografia rivoluzionaria = Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994 Crossan / Casalini), book (Italian ed.)
- Il processo di Gesù (The Trial of Jesus / 1994 Pajardi), non-fiction
- Gesù, Qumran e il Vaticano = Jesus, Qumran und der Vatikan (Jesus, Qumran and the Vatican / 1995 Betz, Riesner), book (Italian ed.)
- Cominciò in Galilea (1995 Jacomuzzi), novel
- Gesù: la verità storica = The Historical Figure of Jesus (1995 Sanders / Sampaolo), book (Italian ed.)
- Disputa immaginaria tra un rabbino e Gesù = A Rabbi Talks with Jesus (1996 Neusner / Bianchi), book (Italian ed.)
- I ritratti originali di Gesù il Cristo (The Original Portraits of Jesus the Christ / 1996-99 Penna), book
- Gli Esseni, Qumran, Giovanni Battista e Gesù (1996 Stegemann), book (Italian ed.)
- Il secreto messianico nei vangeli = Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien (The Messianic Secret / 1996 @1901 Wrede), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù e la comunità di Qumran = Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1997 @1992 Charlesworth / Franzosi), edited volume (Italian ed.)
- Prendere o lasciare (1997 Conconi), novel
- Il vangelo secondo il figlio = The Gospel According to the Son (1997 Mailer / Marenco), novel (Italian ed.)
- Gesù: l'uomo, la fede = Jesus: A Life (1997 Wilson / Béguin), non-fiction (Italian ed.)
- Il diavolo nel deserto = Quarantine (1998 Crace / Noulian), novel (Italian ed.)
- La passione di Gesù Cristo (The Passion of Jesus Christ / 1998 Czepiel / @1783 Paisiello), sound recording (oratorio)
- Il processo contro Gesù (The Trial against Jesus / 1999 Amarelli, Lucrezi), edited volume
- La morte del Messia = The Death of the Messiah (1999 Brown / Nepi, Venturini), book (Italian ed.)
- Vita di Gesù (Life of Jesus / 1999 Parazzoli), non-fiction
- Gesù (1999 Perrot / Crespi), book (Italian ed.)
- Il Gesù storico = The Historical Jesus (1999 Theissen, Merz / Gatti, Dalla Vecchia), book (Italian ed.)
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- == == 2000s == == ==
- Gesù e Paolo, figli d'Israele = Jésus et Paul, fils d'Israël (Jesus and Paul, Children of Israel / 2000 @1988 Chouraqui / Mello), book (Italian ed.)
- Il nostro agente in Giudea (2000 Mimmi), novel
- La vita sconosciuta di Gesù = La vie inconnue de Jésus-Christ (The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ / 2000 @1894 Notovitch / Muggia), arch-fi book (Italian ed.)
- Un ebreo marginale: 1. Le radici del problema e della persona = A Marginal Jew: 1. The Roots of the Problem and the Person (2001 @1991 Meier / Dalla Vecchia), book (Italian ed.)
- L'ebraicità di Gesù = Jesus' Jewishness (2002 @1991 Charlesworth / Franzosi), edited volume (Italian ed.)
- Il processo di Gesù (2002 Jossa), book
- Un ebreo marginale: 2. Mentore, messaggio e miracoli = A Marginal Jew: 2. Mentor, Message, and Miracles (2002 @1994 Meier / Dalla Vecchia), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù di Nazaret = Jésus de Nazareth, 2nd ed. (Jesus of Nazareth / 2002 @2002 Schlosser / Valentino), book (italian ed.)
- La religione di Gesù l'ebreo = The Religion of Jesus the Jew (2002 @1993 Vermès), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù ebreo di Galilea (2003 Barbaglio), book
- Un ebreo marginale: 3. Compagni e antagonisti = A Marginal Jew: 3. Companions and Competitors (2003 @2001 Meier / Dalla Vecchia), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù e la sua gente (2003 Sacchi), book
- Nocciolo d'oliva (2002 De Luca), novel
- Le parole dimenticate di Gesù (The Forgotten Words of Jesus / 2004 Pesce), book
- Gesù nelle fonti extrabibliche (2004 Van Voorst / Rimoldi) = Jesus outside the New Testament (2000 Van Voorst), book (Italian ed.)
- L'ombra del padre (2005 Pazzi), novel
- Il Gesù storico nelle fonti del I-II secolo (2005 Pitta), edited volume
- Gesù di Nazaret e Paolo di Tarso (Jesus of Nazareth and Paul of Tarsus / 2006 Barbaglio), book
- L'inchiesta (The Final Inquiry / 2006 Base), TV mini-series
- Gesù = Jesus (2006 @2004 Berger / Bologna, Fabris), book (Italian ed.)
- Gli albori del cristianesimo: 1. La memoria di Gesù = Jesus Remembered (2006-07 Dunn), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù e i Messia di Israele (2006 Guida/Vitelli), edited volume
- La sacra famiglia (The Holy Family / 2006 Mertes), TV mini-series
- Sulle tracce di Gesù: la terza ricerca (2006 Segalla), book
- Ripensare Gesù : l'interpretazione ebraica contemporanea di Gesù (Rethinking Jesus: Contemporary Jewish views of Jesus / 2006 Testaferri), book
- Gesù ebreo e cristiano: sviluppi e prospettive di ricerca sul Gesù storico in Italia, dall'Ottocento a oggi (The Quest for the Historical Jesus in Italy, from 1800 to the Present / 2007 Boccaccini), essay
- Quale Gesù?: due letture = The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (2007 @1999 Borg, Wright / Versino), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù non l'ha mai detto = Misquoting Jesus (2007 @2005 Ehrman / Gimelli), book (Italian ed.)
- La passione di Gesù Cristo (The Passion of Jesus Christ / 2007 Fasolis / @1783 Paisiello), sound recording (oratorio)
- Perché non possiamo essere cristiani (e meno che mai cattolici) (2007 Odifreddi), non-fiction
- L’uomo Gesù (Encounters with Jesus / 2008 Destro, Pesce), book
- Gesù profeta e maestro = Prophet and Teacher: An Introduction to the Historical Jesus (2008 @2005 Herzog / Comba), book (Italian ed.)
- Il cristianesimo ha tradito Gesù? (2008 Jossa), book
- L'enigma Gesù (2008 Prinzivalli), edited volume
- Indagine su Gesù (Inquiry on Jesus / 2008 Socci), nonfiction book
- Il Gesù moderno (2009 Gaeta), book
- Un altro Gesù? I vangeli apocrifi, il Gesù storico e il cristianesimo delle origini (2009 Guida, Norelli), edited volume
- Un ebreo marginale: 4. Legge e amore = A Marginal Jew: 4. Law and Love (2009 @2009 Meier / Dalla Vecchia), book (Italian ed.)
- Sei tu il Messia?: Gesù di fronte ai messianismi del suo tempo (Are You the Messiah?: Jesus and the Messianic Ideas of His Time / 2009 Testaferri), book
- == == 2010s == == ==
- Il Gesù storico (2010 Bertalotto), book
- Come Gesù divenne Dio = How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? (2010 @2005 Hurtado / Fracchia), book (Italian ed.)
- La condanna del Messia: problemi storici della ricerca su Gesù (2010 Jossa), book
- La ricerca del Gesù storico (2010 Segalla), book
- Gesù di Nazareth nell'Apocalisse di Giovanni (2010 Tripaldi), book
- Cambiare prospettiva su Gesù = A New Perspective on Jesus (2011 @2005 Dunn / Zoroddu, Nuzzo), book (Italian ed.)
- Gesù: L'invenzione del Dio cristiano (Jesus: The Invention of the Christian God / 2011 Flores d'Arcais), non-fiction
- Da Gesù al cristianesimo (2011 Pesce), book
- La trasmissione delle parole di Gesù nei primi tre secoli (2011 Pesce, Rescio), edited volume
- La guerra contro Gesù (The War against Jesus / 2011 Socci), nonfiction book
- Gesù e il suo ambiente (Jesus and His Historical Setting / 2011 Testaferri), book
- I vangeli sconosciuti: i vangeli apocrifi e il Gesù storico (The Unknown Gospels: The Apocryphal Gospels and the Historical Jesus / 2011 Testaferri), book
- Cristo storico e Gesù teologico = The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus (2012 @2009 Allison / Bassani), book (Italian ed.)
- Il Vangelo ebraico = The Jewish Gospels (2012 @2012 Boyarin / Buttazzi), book (Italian ed.)
- Il figlio dell'ascolto (The Listening Son / 2012 Fontana), book
- Gesù di Nazaret nelle culture del suo tempo (Jesus of Nazareth in the Culture of His Time / 2012 Penna), book
- La famiglia alternativa di Gesù: discepolato e strategie di trasformazione sociale nel Vangelo di Marco (2012 Rescio), book
- Vita e mito di Gesù (Life and Myth of Jesus / 2015 Garbini), book
- La passione di Gesù Cristo (The Passion of Jesus Christ / 2016 D'Agostini / @1783 Paisiello), Milan production (oratorio)
- E Gesù diventò Dio: L’esaltazione di un predicatore ebreo della Galilea (2017 Ehrman), book (Italian ed.)
- L'invenzione di Gesù di Nazareth: storia e finzione (2021 Bermejo Rubio), book (Italian ed.)
Media in category "Historical Jesus Studies--Italian"
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