Professor at the University of Bologna since 2022, he carries out his research in biblical studies, with special attention to the Hebrew Bible. He is currently writing a commentary on the book of Numbers, while preparing the new critical edition of the masoretic text of Daniel for Biblia Hebraica Quinta (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft). For years his main research interest has been in the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts of the Book of Daniel and prophetic literature.
Formation
Baccalaureate in theology at the Studio Teologico Accademico Bolognese in 1998, Licentia in re biblica at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 2003 (recognized by the Ministry of Education as a Diploma in the Italian teaching system), PhD in Re Biblica at the same Institute in 2008, master’s degree in Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Alma Mater University of Bologna in 2016.
Academic career
Professor of Classical Hebrew and Old Testament in Bologna, at the Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna, since 2006, he has been full professor there since 2015. Invited professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome) from 2014 to 2023, he was invited professor at Hope University, in Liverpool, from 2012 to 2015, at the Theological Faculty of Triveneto, in Padua, in 2015/2015 and 2015/2016, at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy, in Florence, in 2019/2020, and at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem in 2020/2021.
Teaching
Since 2006 he has been continuously teaching in various courses for Baccalaureate and licentiate in theology of the ecclesiastical system, that is to say, for first and second cycle degree courses of the European university system.
He is currently professor in Classical Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis at the Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna, as well as a lecturer at the Alma Mater University of Bologna.
In 2019, 2020 and 2021 he taught at the Pontifical Beda College in Rome and at the Foundation Giovanni XXIII for Religious Sciences for the PluRes Master (Religious Pluralism and Historical Knowledge) in Bologna.
Scientific activity
He contributed to the first volume of the Handbuch zur Septuaginta (Gütersloh 2016), the first volume of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Mohr Siebeck 2020) and is now one of the editors of Biblia Hebraica Quinta (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft - Academic).
As director of the Department of the History of Theology of the Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna he organizes and coordinates seminars on the history of Bible reception.
Institutional activities and academic positions
Since July 2021 he has been Director of the Department of the History of Theology of the Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna.
In 2020-2021 he was referee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
He was a member of a doctoral commission at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome 2017), at the European High School of Religious Sciences «Giuseppe Alberigo» - Foundation for Religious Sciences John XXIII, Bologna / Université De Strasbourg - École Doctorale de Théologie et Sciences Religieuses (ED 270) - Unité de Recherche de Théologie Catholique et Sciences Religieuses (UR 4377) (Bologna 2020), at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (Salamanca 2021).
Other activities
Director of the series Commentario Paideia / Antico Testamento (Paideia, Torino).
