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Elohim: God or gods? (Genesis chap. 1, verse 1)
Did Jesus really walk on the water?
The mistery of Jesus’ Conception

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…
The Rewritten Bible
The Storm God Baal

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…
The mysterious jar of Qumran
Award’s pictures
My first literary award
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…
Did you know that I have been a seminarist?

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…