Anna Mambelli is Assistant Professor in Ancient Christian Literature (Academic discipline: FICP-01/B, previously L-FIL-LET/06) at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Education and Humanities.
She teaches Digital Humanities for Religious Studies at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, and History of Alterity at Unimore.
She is Affiliated Researcher at the Fondazione per le scienze religiose (FSCIRE), Bologna.
She is Scientific Coordinator of the research activities related to Biblical and Patristic philology and exegesis and the Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence applied to these research fields within the project “ITSERR - Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE” (Project code IR0000014 – CUP B53C22001770006), which is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU. She collaborates in RESILIENCE, the European Research Infrastructure for Religious Studies, which ITSERR aims to strengthen on a national level.
As of vol. II, she is Scientific Coordinator of the international and interdisciplinary project Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (HTLS, eds. Eberhard Bons [as of vol. I], Daniela Scialabba [as of vol. II], 4 vols., Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2020-).
She is a member of:
- The Steering Committee of the “Septuagint Studies” Unit within the SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) International Meetings.
- The editorial board of the Bologna Studies in Religious History series, published in the Brill catalog (Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Alberto Melloni).
- The editorial team of the journal “Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi” (Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Mauro Pesce), A-Class, area 10.
- The editorial board of the journal “Cristianesimo nella storia. Studies in History, Theology and Exegesis” (Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Silvia Scatena), A-Class, area 11.
She collaborates with the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (German Bible Society) and in particular with the Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D) team: Anna Mambelli is entrusted with the revision of the German translation of Old Greek and Theodotion Daniel for the third edition.
She cooperates with Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF as a referee for evaluation of research projects.
With Prof. Rodrigo F. de Sousa (Institut Protestant de Théologie - Faculté de Montpellier), Anna Mambelli directed an international research group on Understanding Prophecy in Early Judaism and Christianity, organised a panel on this topic as part of EuARe 2019 (Bologna, March 4-7) and coordinated the reworking of the group's research, which was finally published in Words from Another World: Understanding Prophecy in Early Judaism and Christianity, eds. R.F. de Sousa, A. Mambelli, monographic issue of «Cristianesimo nella storia», 43, 2 (2022).
She collaborated with the Augustana-Hochschule, Neuendettelsau, for organising with Prof. Markus Mülke an Italian-German conference on interreligious and intercultural freedom (Bologna, September 4-6, 2023), funded by DAAD, and for the publication of the proceedings.
She is member of the team working on Plorabunt - Martyrology of People at Prayer, a FSCIRE research line, which aims to reconstruct a common and global memory of the orantes killed in places of worship from 1982 (October 9: attack on the synagogue in Rome) to 2022 and to study in depth selected cases of bleeding wounds caused by religious fundamentalisms (one or more volumes are planned).
Anna Mambelli participates in the National Research Group of PARS - Training and Information Portal for Fighting Religious Illiteracy with Knowledge (a project of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and FSCIRE), so far, in particular, through the creation of two training kits:
- on historical-critical exegesis of the Old Testament, with Prof. Eberhard Bons (March 22, 2021: https://pars-edu.it/percorsi-formativi/esegesi-storico-critica-dellantico-testamento);
- on dreams in the Bible and its surroundings (December 1, 2022: https://pars-edu.it/percorsi-formativi/i-sogni-nella-bibbia-e-dintorni).
She has organised, and participated as a speaker in, conferences, seminars, workshops and panels in Italy, Europe and the United States.
For the publications of Anna Mambelli, see the list in the Publications section on the website.
Education
Anna Mambelli was a post-doc researcher at the Fondazione per le scienze religiose in Bologna from January 3, 2022, to April 14, 2023, with a two-year research project entitled La Bibbia dei Settanta: mondo ebraico e greco in dialogo.
On July 19, 2022, she was a winner of the Ordinary Competition for Secondary School I and II grade (D.D. April 21, 2020, no. 499, as amended by D.D. January 5, 2022, no. 23), third position, for the class A013 - Literary Disciplines, Latin and Greek for the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy, with consequent qualification to teach all literary disciplines, Latin and Greek in Secondary Schools (A013, A012, A011).
On October 8, 2021, she obtained a PhD in History of Religions from the University of Strasbourg and in Religious Studies from the Giuseppe Alberigo European School for Advanced Religious Studies – Fondazione per le scienze religiose (FSCIRE), Bologna, in the context of an international co-tutorship agreement (cotutelle) between FSCIRE and the University of Strasbourg. Her doctoral dissertation (supervisors: Prof. Eberhard Bons and Prof. Luca Mazzinghi) focuses on the Hellenistic context and the meaning of the dream reports in Daniel 2 and 4 in its two complete Greek versions, known respectively as the Old Greek and Theodotion.
Between 2017 and 2019 she spent several research periods at the University of Strasbourg, perfecting Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, and in September-October 2017 she carried out part of her research at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem.
Previously, she studied at the School of Letters and Heritage of the University of Bologna, and graduated on July 12, 2013, tutored by Professor Renzo Tosi, with her B.A. thesis entitled Δοῦλος nel Nuovo Testamento, obtaining a final grade of 110/110 cum laude. On March 16, 2016, she obtained her M.A. degree in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition, tutored by Professors Renzo Tosi and Antonio Cacciari, with a thesis entitled La Seconda Lettera di Pietro. Ricerche linguistiche e problemi interpretativi, obtaining a final grade of 110/110 cum laude.
Membership
- Member of the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose (Bologna for the study of Christianity, Venice for Judaism and Palermo for research on Islam)
- Member of the Consulta Universitaria di Letteratura Cristiana Antica (CULCA)
- Ordinary member of To Hellenikon (TH), the University Association for the Study of the Greek World
- Ordinary member of the Associazione Biblica Italiana (ABI)
- Ordinary member of the Società Biblica in Italia (SBI)
- Member of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
- Member of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS)
- Member of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe).
E-mail, in addition to Unibo: anna.mambelli@unimore.it; mambelli@fscire.it; anna.mambelli@yahoo.it.
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5538-5882
