“Bethany is clearly to be identified with the modern Palestinian village of el-Azariyeh since it is situaed about 3 kilometers to the southest of Jesrualem – which roughly fits the distance of 15 stadia mentioned in John – or a forty-minute ride on horseback. The modern name el-Azariyeh is a…
The third word of the Hebrew Bible is Elohim: “Bereshìt barà Elohim …” “At the beginning God created … “. So, at the very beginning of the Hebrew Bible we find a reference to polytheism? The verb barà (created) is singular, so the author was convinced that there was only…
When Jesus walked on the water he wanted to stimulate faith of his disciples demonstrating that he is the Lord of natural forces. In the gospel of Matthew we read that disciples “were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” and they cried out in fear” (cf. Matthew chap. 14,…
I must say that I’ve never found a more fascinating and surprising theory of the virginal conception of Jesus than that of Andrew Lincoln, Professor at University of Gloucestershire (published in the November/December of the Bible Archaeology Review). He maintains that the virginal conception of Jesus should be considered from…
I wore it again and fully the role of Biblist in a new and unprecedented publishing initiative: rewriting the Bible! In other words, I explored thoroughly the first three chapters of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, word for word, seeking above all the profound meaning. I did not then made a…
Probably all of you have heard speaking about “Baal”, the Canaanite divinity fiery opposed by the prophets (see e.g. Jeremy chap. 2, verse 23). Baal is an hebrew word borrowed by Phoenicians, and it was the storm’s god worshipped by Canaanites before the Israelites conquest of the Promised Land. We…
I think that you have heard speaking about Qumran scrolls discovered in the forties and fifties of last century. Not far from the Dead Sea shore archaeologists discovered a lot of scrolls written in hebrew, greek and even in latin and hidden inside pottery jars. Most of them were biblical…
Special prize’s pictures of the “Ponte Vecchio Prize – Florenze 14 March 2014 Clicking here you can see all the pictures
Saturday 14 of March 2015 at the Sala Congressi of the Grand Hotel Adriatico in Florence (Via Maso da Finiguerra 9) it will take place the award ceremony of the First edition of the Literary Prize “Ponte Vecchio” conceveid by Marzia Carocci and Lorenzo Spurio. The Prize has been organized…
Why are you so interested in Theology, a subject which marked your studies, but also your work as a writer? As a child, I remember, often I was readind the Gospel to my aunt, saying her that I wanted to study those great things. Then my passion for the Bible was interpreted as a vocation to priesthood. In…
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