Notes on Contributors
Antonella Bellantuono
is associate professor of ancient languages and the New Testament at the Catholic University of Lille. She completed her studies in classics at the University of Bari and in biblical philology at the Catholic University of Milan, and holds a master’s degree in Middle East politics from Luiss University in Rome. She earned a Ph.D. in history of religions from the University of Strasbourg, focusing on divine epithets in the Greek Bible. She is a member of the advisory board of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint and participates in the Pluritext project for the critical edition of the Hebrew manuscripts of Ben Sira. Her research interests include Jewish-Hellenistic literature, religious coexistence in Second Temple Judaism, biblical papyrology, and the reception of biblical texts in contemporary political narratives.
Laura Bigoni
is research assistant at the Department of History and Cultures of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna and affiliated researcher at FSCIRE in Bologna. After graduating in classical philology at the University of Bologna, she obtained a Ph.D. in history of religions at the University of Strasbourg in 2024. Her main research interests include Greek language and lexicography, the redaction and reception history of the LXX, and the biblical heritage in ancient Christian literature in Greek.
Eberhard Bons
has studied theology, philosophy, and Romance languages in Mainz, Tübingen, Rome (Gregorian University), and Frankfurt a.M. (Faculty of Sankt Georgen). In 1988 he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Mainz and in 1993 a doctoral degree in theology (biblical exegesis) from the Faculty of Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt a.M. He received his habilitation in 2000 from the University of Strasbourg, where he taught as a professor of Old Testament exegesis (2004–2023). He is an affiliated researcher of FSCIRE, Bologna, and co-editor of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Mohr Siebeck).
Ralph Brucker
studied Protestant theology in Hamburg and got his doctorate in 1996 in New Testament studies, with a thesis about the so-called hymns in the New Testament, with a special focus on Philippians. Until 2014 he taught exegesis of New Testament as well as Old Testament in Hamburg and Giessen. He is a contributor to Septuaginta Deutsch (Psalms) and co-edited several essay volumes. He has been a member of the editorial team of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint since 2011 and of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe of Friedrich Schleiermacher since 2014.
Antonio Cacciari
held the chair of ancient Christian literature and New Testament philology and exegesis at the Department of Classical Philology and Italianistics at the University of Bologna until 2022. He has published studies on the LXX, Philo of Alexandria, Greek apologetic literature of the second century, Alexandrian literature of the second-third centuries (Clement of Alexandria, Origen), Eusebius of Caesarea, Augustine, and Gregory the Great.
Laura Carnevale
is associate professor at the Aldo Moro University, Bari (Italy). She has been the principal investigator of the FIRB project Sacred Spaces and Identity Paths and serves as co-director of the Journal Vetera Christianorum. For the University of Bari, she has been responsible for the PRIN project Resilient Septuagint. Her research interests include Old Testament and its Jewish-Christian Reception; sacred places, sacred spaces, sacred objects; women’s authority in early Christianity. She has written on the Book of Job; the sacrifice of Isaac; sanctuaries and pilgrimages in Italy and abroad; rural religion; female prophecy; biblical lexicography.
Luigi D’Amelia
is associate professor of Byzantine studies at the University of Bologna since 2024. His research focuses on Byzantine philology and literature, with particular attention to hymnography, hagiography, and anti-Latin polemical texts. He investigates both manuscript transmission and the rhetorical-linguistic features of the works he studies and edits. His interests also include hate speech against Latins and Muslims in Byzantine literature. He has held research and teaching positions at the universities of Rome Tor Vergata and Sapienza, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and at WWU Münster, and has taken part in several national and international research projects.
Dorota Hartman
is associate professor of early Christian literature at the University of Naples L’Orientale, where she teaches New Testament philology and exegesis. Her research interests focus in particular on the synoptic gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, the Judaean Desert papyri, the documentary papyri as a background for the early Christian writings, and the reception of Jewish Scripture. Among her works are Archivio di Babatha. Testi greci e ketubah (Paideia 2016) and a study of the parables in the Gospel of Luke (UniorPress 2018). She is currently working on the papyrological commentary on Acts of the Apostles.
Christoph Kugelmeier
has studied ancient Greek and Latin language and literature in Cologne from 1987 to 1992. He discussed his doctoral thesis at Cologne University in 1995 and got his habilitation at the University of Saarbrücken in 2002. Since 2010 he is professor of classical philology at the University of Saarbrücken. He authored several publications on Greek and Latin drama, ancient historiography, theory and practice of translation, the forming of philosophical terminology in antiquity and the Renaissance, and on the terminology of the LXX and the Vulgate.
Giulia Leonardi
obtained her Ph.D. in religious studies in 2024 at the University of Strasbourg in co-partnership with Sapienza University of Rome. She has been a member of the editorial team of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint since 2016. Her fields of research are the books of Judith and Ruth in the LXX and Vulgate versions, investigations of Greek lexicography, and the reception of Old Testament books in early Christian literature.
Edmondo F. Lupieri
taught at the universities of Rome, Turin, and Udine. Presently he holds the John Cardinal Cody Endowed Chair in Theology and teaches New Testament and early Christianity at Loyola University, Chicago. He has published books and articles on the New Testament and its figures (especially John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene), early Christianity, Christian and non-Christian Gnosticism, various phenomena of religious syncretism involving Christian elements, and modern and contemporary Christian history.
Louis Painchaud
is professor emeritus of early Christian history and literature at Laval University (Québec, Canada). He directed the Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi series from 1999 to 2019. Alone or in collaboration, he has published several critical editions and translations as well as numerous articles relating to this corpus. He is currently preparing critical editions of the Gospel of Judas from the Tchacos Codex and the Gospel according to Philip from Nag Hammadi codex II.
Beatrice Perego
is a research fellow at the Research Center for the Early Reception of Biblical Texts (ReCERBiT), Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. She studied classics at the State University and Catholic University of Milan and received her Ph.D. in history of religions (University of Strasbourg) discussing a thesis focused on the biblical Book of Judith and its relationships with Greek literature. She is a collaborator of the research group Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint.
Pietro Rosa
teaches Greek and Latin at the liceo classico Marco Minghetti in Bologna and collaborates with the Department of Classical Philology of the University of Bologna. He has dealt with classical Greek literature with contributions on its theatre, medical texts (Hippocrates, Galen), historiography (Thucydides), and the teaching of classical languages, as well as the LXX and the Fathers of the church, with particular attention to the exegetical production of Cyril of Alexandria.
Daniela Scialabba
is associate professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome (Old Testament), affiliated researcher at FSCIRE in Bologna and a member of various scientific associations. She is co-editor of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (vol. II) and member of the editorial board of the series Septuagint and Cognate Studies of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and collaborates in various international projects on the study of the LXX. Her research deals with the Old Testament (Hebrew and Greek) and the Jewish literature in Greek.