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Books by Giancarlo Toloni

(Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 204), Jan 1, 2023

The story of Tobit builds on various themes derived from myth, legend and folktale. Tobiah’s jour... more The story of Tobit builds on various themes derived from myth, legend and folktale. Tobiah’s journey recalls Homer’s Odyssey, the suffering of the righteous brings to mind the legend of Job, and the narrative around a disgraced and then rehabilitated official evokes the story of Aḥiqar. The author of Tobit seeks to exploit his readers’ knowledge of these stories in order to convey his message more effectively: he encourages them to trust in divine providence that intervenes on behalf of the faithful.
This volume, based on essays previously published in Italian, collected and translated into English, and some still unedited, written directly in English for this book, charts Tobit’s narrative sources through comparative literary analysis, firmly placing the story in the genre of the didactic and edifying religious novel.

1. An Incorruptible Inheritance: Twenty Years after the Death of Luigi Cagni (Giancarlo Toloni) -... more 1. An Incorruptible Inheritance: Twenty Years after the Death of Luigi Cagni (Giancarlo Toloni) - 2. “In memoriam” of Luigi Cagni: The Seminar of Studies on Languages and Cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Mario Taccolini) - 3. Fr Luigi M. Cagni Barnabita (Filippo M. Lovison) - 4. Luigi Cagni in Naples, and to the Oriental Institute (Simonetta Graziani) - 5. Father Cagni and Assyriology (Francesco Vincenzo Pomponio) - 6. Luigi Cagni and the History of the Ancient Near East (Carlo Zaccagnini) - 7. Luigi Cagni and the Neapolitan Conferences on Ebla (Maria Giovanna Biga) - 8. Luigi Cagni and Some Sources in Western Semitic Languages (Riccardo Contini) - 9. Philology and Humanity. Luigi Cagni and the Historical-Philological Studies on the Hebrew Bible (Giancarlo Toloni) - 10. L. Cagni, Ebla 1975-1985: Ten Years of Linguistic and Philological Studies - 11. Biographical Note (Giancarlo Toloni) - 12. Bibliography of the Writings (Giancarlo Toloni)

(Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études - Sciences religieuses 178), Mar 2017

This book examines the two portraits of Jeroboam (in the TM and in the LXX), and compares them wi... more This book examines the two portraits of Jeroboam (in the TM and in the LXX), and compares them with their parallel witnesses (the Antiochian Text and the Vetus Latina [VL]), as well as with historiographical reworking of Flavius Josephus. In fact, variants of the Lucianic manuscripts, if confirmed by the VL and Josephus, can attest the protolucianic, textual form that reflects closely the Old Greek, and is therefore very close to the original text. Literary criticism then allows you to also study the nature of theological reading of the Deuteronomistic editors, who produced an ideologized historiography, which should therefore be checked carefully.

1. Memory and History: twenty years after the death of Francesco Vattioni (Giancarlo Toloni) - 2.... more 1. Memory and History: twenty years after the death of Francesco Vattioni (Giancarlo Toloni) - 2. An Eminent Scholar from Brescia: the homage of the Catholic University (Mario Taccolini) - 3. Francesco Vattioni, a Scholar of Aramaic Language (Riccardo Contini) - 4. Francesco Vattioni and the Phoenician and Punic Studies (Giovanni Garbini) - 5. Francesco Vattioni, a Scholar of Hebrew and Professor at the Oriental Institute of Naples (Giancarlo Lacerenza) - 6. Philology and Parrhesia: Francesco Vattioni and the Biblical Studies (Giancarlo Toloni) - 7. F. Vattioni, Sacrificial Aspects in Hatra Inscriptions - 7. Biographical Note (Giancarlo Toloni) - 8. Bibliography of the Writings (Giancarlo Toloni)

1. Preface - 2. Felice Montagnini and the Catholic University - 3. Quality and competence of an e... more 1. Preface - 2. Felice Montagnini and the Catholic University - 3. Quality and competence of an exegete - 4. Philology and freedom - 5. Memories of old students - 6. F. Montagnini, The Roman trial of Paul in the ending of Acts - 7. Bibliography of the writings

(Studi biblici 159), 2009

(Textos y Estudios “Cardenal Cisneros” de la Biblia Políglota Matritense 71), 2004

(La Bibbia nelle nostre mani 18; eds. C. Ghidelli - A. Girlanda), 1999

Papers by Giancarlo Toloni

The Colloquium "Twenty years after the death of Fr. Luigi Cagni, Barnabite, Assyriologist and Heb... more The Colloquium "Twenty years after the death of Fr. Luigi Cagni, Barnabite, Assyriologist and Hebrew Scholar of Brescia", held at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia gives us the opportunity to recall here the main lines of the research of the eminent Italian orientalist (1929-1998), who emerged from his work as well. A Seminar Studies in the Near East and the Mediterranean was set up and dedicated to his memory, to continue his research on the Hebrew Bible in the historical and cultural context in which it was formed and was transmitted.

On sidelines of the Colloquium “Giovanni Garbini, The Aramaic Gospel of Matthew. The Memorial of ... more On sidelines of the Colloquium “Giovanni Garbini, The Aramaic Gospel of Matthew. The Memorial of a Scholars, in his latest work”, held at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia three months after his death, we recall here the research perspectives of this Orientalist (1931-2017), which also emerge from his posthumous work.

The figure of the wife of a right man – victimized precisely because of his unconditional faithfu... more The figure of the wife of a right man – victimized precisely because of his unconditional faithfulness – is very close to that of the anti-hero of Sophocles’s theater, which strongly objects to the hero choice in name of the mentality of the common man. On this literary form, the character of his wife might therefore have been placed in the story of Job. The Old Greek attests clearly that by its addition (v. 9a-e), the intervention of Job’s wife was defined more favorably, and making her a kind of anti-heroine, on the dramatic scheme of the antagonism of Ismene and Chrysothemis against their respective hero.

In Tb 1,11–14 the words that Hannah says to her husband resemble those of Job’s wife (Job 2,9). T... more In Tb 1,11–14 the words that Hannah says to her husband resemble those of Job’s wife (Job 2,9). That of Hannah is the defiance of a lively faith, attentive to people and to the situations of life, more that in complying with the law, in the rites and works of justice. This was the primitive sense of her words; in fact, the author of Tobit constructed her portrait on the original archetype of Job’s wife, that can be seen in Old Greek (OG) and in his addiction in v. 9a–e, by contaminating them.
A reworking of Hannah’s image is totally positive in vv. 11–13: there it’s reinterpreted in the light of the new portrait of Job’s wife, reworked with misogynist accents by Jewish tradition and incorporated in the MT and in the ecclesiastical Greek of the LXX, where her words, rather than an exhortation, they are a curse against Yhwh, responsible for Job’s suffering.

The 20th anniversary of the death of Francesco Vattioni (1922-1995) offered to Friends and Collea... more The 20th anniversary of the death of Francesco Vattioni (1922-1995) offered to Friends and Colleagues of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia and of the University of Naples " L'Orientale " the occasion for revisiting the scientific work of the Italian Orientalist, internationally renowned.

Asiria, por una espúrea historización, muy semejante a la que hizo el autor del libro de Tobit.

Articoli PAG. FRANCESCA BELLINO, Manoscritti e testimonianze orali del Nord Africa: la spedizione... more Articoli PAG. FRANCESCA BELLINO, Manoscritti e testimonianze orali del Nord Africa: la spedizione contro il re al-Ġiṭrīf nel Wādī al-Saysabān  1 KHALID SINDAWI, The Abbasid Vizier 'Alī b. Yaqṭīn (124-182/741-798). The Man and His Role in Early Šī'ite History  41 PELIN ŞAHIN TEKINALP, Mount Vesuvius in Ottoman Wall Paintings in the Context of Ottoman-Italian Relations  61 MARIA RITA CASTALDI, La valenza in accadico ed ebraico biblico: alternanza sintattica e derivazione causativa  69 GIANCARLO TOLONI, Ahiqar nel libro di Tobia  87 DORIS METH SRINIVASAN, Childbirth, Childhood and the Magico-Religious World of Transformations  115 ANNA MARIA QUAGLIOTTI, Siddhārtha's Cutting of his Hair: Interpretations and its Meaning  137 GIULIA RAMPOLLA, Figli della globalizzazione: gli scrittori cinesi post-Ottanta tra web, seduzioni commerciali e aspirazioni letterarie  149 Note e Discussioni KRISHNA DEL TOSO, The Wolf's Footprints: Indian Materialism in Perspective. An Annotated Conversation with Ramkrishna Bhattacharya  183 GIUSEPPE FERRARO, A proposito di una recente interpretazione di Pramāṇasamuccaya 5.46  205 UBALDO IACCARINO, Le attività marittimo-commerciali di Cina e Giappone nei secoli XVI-XIX. A proposito di tre libri recenti  215 Recensioni Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Angel Urbán (a c.), Sacred text. Explorations in lexicography (Riccardo Contini)  227 Fabian Käs, Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie. Eine Konkordanz zur mineralischen Materia medica der klassischen arabischen Heilmittelkunde nebst überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studien (Francesca Bellino)  232 Werner Diem, Arabische Briefe aus dem 10.-16. Jahrundert (Francesca Bellino)  234 Peter Behnsted, Manfred Woidich (eds.), Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte. Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora. Band II: Materielle Kultur (Francesca Bellino) 235 Beatrice Gruendler with the Assistance of Michael Cooperson (ed.), Classical Arabic Humanities in their Own Terms. Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues (Francesca Bellino)  237 Jérémie Schiettecatte, D'Aden à Zafar. Villes d'Arabie du Sud Préislamique (Romolo Loreto)  239 Nina Ergin (a c.), Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History, and Imagination (Valentina Laviola)  241 Rosa Maria Cimino, Leggende e fasti della corte dei "Grandi re". Dipinti murali di Udaipur, Rajasthan (Stefania Cavaliere)  244 Anne O'Keeffe, Michael McCarthy (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (Patrizia Zotti)  248 Necrologi  253 Giovanni Maria D'Erme (Natalia L. Tornesello) Alessandro de Maigret (Romolo Loreto) Luciano Petech (Giacomella Orofino) Libri ricevuti  299 AION, 71/1-4 (2011), 87-114 GIANCARLO TOLONI

Fin dal primo approccio, il libro di Tobia si propone essenzialmente come il racconto di un viagg... more Fin dal primo approccio, il libro di Tobia si propone essenzialmente come il racconto di un viaggio, in particolare di un ritorno a casa. Tobia, inviato dal padre, Tobi, a Rages di Media, per rientrare in possesso di una somma di denaro prestata a suo tempo al parente Gabael, prende la via del ritorno fra varie peripe-zie e ostacoli, finché raggiunge la casa paterna e gli affetti familiari. Nelle sue linee di fondo, questo schema narrativo rievoca il nov stoı di Odisseo, che, dopo la guerra decennale combattuta a Troia, sulla via di Itaca s'imbatte in continue minacce che rendono avventuroso il suo itinerario e sospirato l'approdo alla patria e alla famiglia. In entrambe le vicende al motivo del viaggio in regioni esotiche dell'Oriente fa da contrappunto il tema dell'amore, per lo più di tipo coniugale, che per Tobia culmina nell'incontro con Sara, introdotta in famiglia al suo rientro a Ninive, mentre per Odisseo costituisce il frutto di una dolorosa riconquista, dopo le provocazioni affettive del viaggio.

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(Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 204), Jan 1, 2023

The story of Tobit builds on various themes derived from myth, legend and folktale. Tobiah’s jour... more The story of Tobit builds on various themes derived from myth, legend and folktale. Tobiah’s journey recalls Homer’s Odyssey, the suffering of the righteous brings to mind the legend of Job, and the narrative around a disgraced and then rehabilitated official evokes the story of Aḥiqar. The author of Tobit seeks to exploit his readers’ knowledge of these stories in order to convey his message more effectively: he encourages them to trust in divine providence that intervenes on behalf of the faithful.
This volume, based on essays previously published in Italian, collected and translated into English, and some still unedited, written directly in English for this book, charts Tobit’s narrative sources through comparative literary analysis, firmly placing the story in the genre of the didactic and edifying religious novel.

1. An Incorruptible Inheritance: Twenty Years after the Death of Luigi Cagni (Giancarlo Toloni) -... more 1. An Incorruptible Inheritance: Twenty Years after the Death of Luigi Cagni (Giancarlo Toloni) - 2. “In memoriam” of Luigi Cagni: The Seminar of Studies on Languages and Cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Mario Taccolini) - 3. Fr Luigi M. Cagni Barnabita (Filippo M. Lovison) - 4. Luigi Cagni in Naples, and to the Oriental Institute (Simonetta Graziani) - 5. Father Cagni and Assyriology (Francesco Vincenzo Pomponio) - 6. Luigi Cagni and the History of the Ancient Near East (Carlo Zaccagnini) - 7. Luigi Cagni and the Neapolitan Conferences on Ebla (Maria Giovanna Biga) - 8. Luigi Cagni and Some Sources in Western Semitic Languages (Riccardo Contini) - 9. Philology and Humanity. Luigi Cagni and the Historical-Philological Studies on the Hebrew Bible (Giancarlo Toloni) - 10. L. Cagni, Ebla 1975-1985: Ten Years of Linguistic and Philological Studies - 11. Biographical Note (Giancarlo Toloni) - 12. Bibliography of the Writings (Giancarlo Toloni)

(Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études - Sciences religieuses 178), Mar 2017

This book examines the two portraits of Jeroboam (in the TM and in the LXX), and compares them wi... more This book examines the two portraits of Jeroboam (in the TM and in the LXX), and compares them with their parallel witnesses (the Antiochian Text and the Vetus Latina [VL]), as well as with historiographical reworking of Flavius Josephus. In fact, variants of the Lucianic manuscripts, if confirmed by the VL and Josephus, can attest the protolucianic, textual form that reflects closely the Old Greek, and is therefore very close to the original text. Literary criticism then allows you to also study the nature of theological reading of the Deuteronomistic editors, who produced an ideologized historiography, which should therefore be checked carefully.

1. Memory and History: twenty years after the death of Francesco Vattioni (Giancarlo Toloni) - 2.... more 1. Memory and History: twenty years after the death of Francesco Vattioni (Giancarlo Toloni) - 2. An Eminent Scholar from Brescia: the homage of the Catholic University (Mario Taccolini) - 3. Francesco Vattioni, a Scholar of Aramaic Language (Riccardo Contini) - 4. Francesco Vattioni and the Phoenician and Punic Studies (Giovanni Garbini) - 5. Francesco Vattioni, a Scholar of Hebrew and Professor at the Oriental Institute of Naples (Giancarlo Lacerenza) - 6. Philology and Parrhesia: Francesco Vattioni and the Biblical Studies (Giancarlo Toloni) - 7. F. Vattioni, Sacrificial Aspects in Hatra Inscriptions - 7. Biographical Note (Giancarlo Toloni) - 8. Bibliography of the Writings (Giancarlo Toloni)

1. Preface - 2. Felice Montagnini and the Catholic University - 3. Quality and competence of an e... more 1. Preface - 2. Felice Montagnini and the Catholic University - 3. Quality and competence of an exegete - 4. Philology and freedom - 5. Memories of old students - 6. F. Montagnini, The Roman trial of Paul in the ending of Acts - 7. Bibliography of the writings

(Studi biblici 159), 2009

(Textos y Estudios “Cardenal Cisneros” de la Biblia Políglota Matritense 71), 2004

(La Bibbia nelle nostre mani 18; eds. C. Ghidelli - A. Girlanda), 1999

The Colloquium "Twenty years after the death of Fr. Luigi Cagni, Barnabite, Assyriologist and Heb... more The Colloquium "Twenty years after the death of Fr. Luigi Cagni, Barnabite, Assyriologist and Hebrew Scholar of Brescia", held at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia gives us the opportunity to recall here the main lines of the research of the eminent Italian orientalist (1929-1998), who emerged from his work as well. A Seminar Studies in the Near East and the Mediterranean was set up and dedicated to his memory, to continue his research on the Hebrew Bible in the historical and cultural context in which it was formed and was transmitted.

On sidelines of the Colloquium “Giovanni Garbini, The Aramaic Gospel of Matthew. The Memorial of ... more On sidelines of the Colloquium “Giovanni Garbini, The Aramaic Gospel of Matthew. The Memorial of a Scholars, in his latest work”, held at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia three months after his death, we recall here the research perspectives of this Orientalist (1931-2017), which also emerge from his posthumous work.

The figure of the wife of a right man – victimized precisely because of his unconditional faithfu... more The figure of the wife of a right man – victimized precisely because of his unconditional faithfulness – is very close to that of the anti-hero of Sophocles’s theater, which strongly objects to the hero choice in name of the mentality of the common man. On this literary form, the character of his wife might therefore have been placed in the story of Job. The Old Greek attests clearly that by its addition (v. 9a-e), the intervention of Job’s wife was defined more favorably, and making her a kind of anti-heroine, on the dramatic scheme of the antagonism of Ismene and Chrysothemis against their respective hero.

In Tb 1,11–14 the words that Hannah says to her husband resemble those of Job’s wife (Job 2,9). T... more In Tb 1,11–14 the words that Hannah says to her husband resemble those of Job’s wife (Job 2,9). That of Hannah is the defiance of a lively faith, attentive to people and to the situations of life, more that in complying with the law, in the rites and works of justice. This was the primitive sense of her words; in fact, the author of Tobit constructed her portrait on the original archetype of Job’s wife, that can be seen in Old Greek (OG) and in his addiction in v. 9a–e, by contaminating them.
A reworking of Hannah’s image is totally positive in vv. 11–13: there it’s reinterpreted in the light of the new portrait of Job’s wife, reworked with misogynist accents by Jewish tradition and incorporated in the MT and in the ecclesiastical Greek of the LXX, where her words, rather than an exhortation, they are a curse against Yhwh, responsible for Job’s suffering.

The 20th anniversary of the death of Francesco Vattioni (1922-1995) offered to Friends and Collea... more The 20th anniversary of the death of Francesco Vattioni (1922-1995) offered to Friends and Colleagues of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia and of the University of Naples " L'Orientale " the occasion for revisiting the scientific work of the Italian Orientalist, internationally renowned.

Asiria, por una espúrea historización, muy semejante a la que hizo el autor del libro de Tobit.

Articoli PAG. FRANCESCA BELLINO, Manoscritti e testimonianze orali del Nord Africa: la spedizione... more Articoli PAG. FRANCESCA BELLINO, Manoscritti e testimonianze orali del Nord Africa: la spedizione contro il re al-Ġiṭrīf nel Wādī al-Saysabān  1 KHALID SINDAWI, The Abbasid Vizier 'Alī b. Yaqṭīn (124-182/741-798). The Man and His Role in Early Šī'ite History  41 PELIN ŞAHIN TEKINALP, Mount Vesuvius in Ottoman Wall Paintings in the Context of Ottoman-Italian Relations  61 MARIA RITA CASTALDI, La valenza in accadico ed ebraico biblico: alternanza sintattica e derivazione causativa  69 GIANCARLO TOLONI, Ahiqar nel libro di Tobia  87 DORIS METH SRINIVASAN, Childbirth, Childhood and the Magico-Religious World of Transformations  115 ANNA MARIA QUAGLIOTTI, Siddhārtha's Cutting of his Hair: Interpretations and its Meaning  137 GIULIA RAMPOLLA, Figli della globalizzazione: gli scrittori cinesi post-Ottanta tra web, seduzioni commerciali e aspirazioni letterarie  149 Note e Discussioni KRISHNA DEL TOSO, The Wolf's Footprints: Indian Materialism in Perspective. An Annotated Conversation with Ramkrishna Bhattacharya  183 GIUSEPPE FERRARO, A proposito di una recente interpretazione di Pramāṇasamuccaya 5.46  205 UBALDO IACCARINO, Le attività marittimo-commerciali di Cina e Giappone nei secoli XVI-XIX. A proposito di tre libri recenti  215 Recensioni Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Angel Urbán (a c.), Sacred text. Explorations in lexicography (Riccardo Contini)  227 Fabian Käs, Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie. Eine Konkordanz zur mineralischen Materia medica der klassischen arabischen Heilmittelkunde nebst überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studien (Francesca Bellino)  232 Werner Diem, Arabische Briefe aus dem 10.-16. Jahrundert (Francesca Bellino)  234 Peter Behnsted, Manfred Woidich (eds.), Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte. Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora. Band II: Materielle Kultur (Francesca Bellino) 235 Beatrice Gruendler with the Assistance of Michael Cooperson (ed.), Classical Arabic Humanities in their Own Terms. Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues (Francesca Bellino)  237 Jérémie Schiettecatte, D'Aden à Zafar. Villes d'Arabie du Sud Préislamique (Romolo Loreto)  239 Nina Ergin (a c.), Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History, and Imagination (Valentina Laviola)  241 Rosa Maria Cimino, Leggende e fasti della corte dei "Grandi re". Dipinti murali di Udaipur, Rajasthan (Stefania Cavaliere)  244 Anne O'Keeffe, Michael McCarthy (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (Patrizia Zotti)  248 Necrologi  253 Giovanni Maria D'Erme (Natalia L. Tornesello) Alessandro de Maigret (Romolo Loreto) Luciano Petech (Giacomella Orofino) Libri ricevuti  299 AION, 71/1-4 (2011), 87-114 GIANCARLO TOLONI

Fin dal primo approccio, il libro di Tobia si propone essenzialmente come il racconto di un viagg... more Fin dal primo approccio, il libro di Tobia si propone essenzialmente come il racconto di un viaggio, in particolare di un ritorno a casa. Tobia, inviato dal padre, Tobi, a Rages di Media, per rientrare in possesso di una somma di denaro prestata a suo tempo al parente Gabael, prende la via del ritorno fra varie peripe-zie e ostacoli, finché raggiunge la casa paterna e gli affetti familiari. Nelle sue linee di fondo, questo schema narrativo rievoca il nov stoı di Odisseo, che, dopo la guerra decennale combattuta a Troia, sulla via di Itaca s'imbatte in continue minacce che rendono avventuroso il suo itinerario e sospirato l'approdo alla patria e alla famiglia. In entrambe le vicende al motivo del viaggio in regioni esotiche dell'Oriente fa da contrappunto il tema dell'amore, per lo più di tipo coniugale, che per Tobia culmina nell'incontro con Sara, introdotta in famiglia al suo rientro a Ninive, mentre per Odisseo costituisce il frutto di una dolorosa riconquista, dopo le provocazioni affettive del viaggio.

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L'esame delle versioni antiche (Targum, P^sittã', traduzione araba, Vetus Latina e Vulgata) di 2R... more L'esame delle versioni antiche (Targum, P^sittã', traduzione araba, Vetus Latina e Vulgata) di 2Re 23,4b-5 ^ ha permesso di riprendere ^ il problema testuale costituito dalla notizia di un massacro dei sacerdoti dei santuari locali soppressi da Giosia, attestato nel codex Vaticanus {-B) e, quindi, nell'edizione di Cambridge dei LXX ^, che si fonda principalmente su di esso. In effetti, all'inizio del v. 5a vi si legge Kaì KaxsKauorsv 'e fece bruciare' (lett. 'bruciò') ^, o liberamente 'sterminò', in aperto contrasto con quanto si dice nel TM e nell'edizione dei LXX curata da A. ^ G. TOLONi, «La presunta strage di sacerdoti di 2Re 23,4b-5 alla verifica delle versioni antiche», AION 51 (1997) pp. 80-100. Le sigle di riviste e collezioni citate in questo studio sono conformi a R. NORTH, Elenchus of Biblica (Roma: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1996) voi. IX/1993 pp. 7a-39b. Le traduzioni dei passi esaminati, dove non si diano indicazioni specifiche, sono da attribuirsi all'a.

Ulteriori osservazioni sul significato di par bar (ICR 26,18b) alla luce di alcune versioni arabe... more Ulteriori osservazioni sul significato di par bar (ICR 26,18b) alla luce di alcune versioni arabe Giancarlo TOLONI Seminario Vescovile Diocesano, Brescia L'esame di ICr 26,18 ha consentito di comprendere che il sostantivo parbar, che ricorre alla fine del versetto, è di difficile traduzione, tanto che nella maggior parte delle versioni moderne è solo traslitterato K Esso designa uno spazio aperto nell'area occidentale del tempio 2, distinto dal resto dell'edificio sacro e, probabilmente, recinto da colonne, la cui funzione pare quella di raccogliere le offerte di purificazione dei sacerdoti e di separarle, quindi, da quelle del popolo K

in 30 anni Museo della Stampa, Centro Studi Stampatori Ebrei - Soncino. Atti del Convegno - Soncino, 22 aprile 2018 e Barco d’Orzinuovi, 18 novembre 2018 , 2023

With the invention of printing, first editions of some book or section of the Hebrew Bible appear... more With the invention of printing, first editions of some book or section of the Hebrew Bible appeared. In particular, the activity of the Soncino stands out, a Jewish family from the Rhineland who, after moving to Italy, in Soncino (CR), opened a printing shop, and on 22 April 1488 published the first complete edition of the Bible. This first was followed by three other editions of the Soncino, printed in the various cities to which they gradually transferred their activity, namely in Naples, Brescia and Pesaro. This study therefore presents the four editions of this Hebrew Bible, usually named with the surname assumed by these printers from the toponym in which they originally settled.

in Commentari dell’Ateneo di Brescia per l’Anno 2019. Anno Accademico CCXVIII, Brescia, Torre d’Ercole, pp. 407-434, 2022

This essay illustrates the figure of Gershom ben Moseh Soncino, the greatest Jewish printer of al... more This essay illustrates the figure of Gershom ben Moseh Soncino, the greatest Jewish printer of all time, which shines through his biography. The Brescia period (1491-97) of its typographical activity stands between the beginnings in Soncino (1488-90) and the failed attempt to settle in Venice (1498-1502). In Brescia (1491-95) he published eight editions of biblical and secular texts, including the famous entire edition of the Hebrew Bible and the "Fable of the ancients" (Meshal ha-qadmoni); in Barco of Orzinuovi (1496-97) he printed three works, among which the Selichot.

in Commentari dell’Ateneo di Brescia per l’Anno 2017. Anno Accademico CCXVI, Brescia, Torre d’Ercole, pp. 223-249, 2021

History and vicissitudes of the famous Jewish family of printers, descending from Moseh Spira's, ... more History and vicissitudes of the famous Jewish family of printers, descending from Moseh Spira's, and moved to Italy towards the end of the century XIV. To them we owe the first partial editions of the Bible (Psalter and Torah), and the first complete (Hebrew Bible Soncino). Two important specimens (one with nice miniatures) of the third edition of this Bible, work by Gershom Soncino (Brescia 1494), are kept in the civic Biblioteca Queriniana. This is the best complete edition of the Bible Soncino; its reduced size, in eighth, ensured a wide diffusion. This ‘pocket’ Bible was adopted by Luther for his translation of the AT into German (1522-34), conducted by texts written in the original languages.

in Commentari dell’Ateneo di Brescia per l’Anno 2017. Anno Accademico CCXVI, Brescia, Torre d’Ercole, pp. 59-82, 2021

This essay traces the biographical profile, and describes the research and scientific work of Fra... more This essay traces the biographical profile, and describes the research and scientific work of Francesco Vattioni and of Luigi Cagni, two eminent Orientalists of Brescia. At the same time, the initiatives of the Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth - Brescia are presented to celebrate their memory, twenty years after their death.

in A. Canova - P. Goffi, a cura di, Immagini dal Centro. Le Raccolte Storiche dell’Università Cattolica di Brescia, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, pp. 115-131, 2021

This essay intends to present the Seminar of Orientalistic studies and research entitled to the m... more This essay intends to present the Seminar of Orientalistic studies and research entitled to the memory of Luigi Cagni, a well-known Assyriologist and Hebraist of Brescia origin, recently inaugurated (2018) at the Documentation and Research Center of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Brescia, in order to keep the volumes and coordinate the activities of two important historical collections such as the "Felice Montagnini" Library of Historical and Philological Studies on the Bible, and the "Francesco Vattioni" Archive of Bibliographic and Documentary Sources of the Ancient Near East. The collection has recently been enriched by the personal library of the illustrious semitist Giovanni Garbini, donated to the Cagni Seminary in the name of friendship with these scholars with whom he shared studies and research.

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in R. Littman (ed.), Tobit, in A. Lange (ed.), The Textual History of the Bible, vol. 2C. The Deuterocanonical Scriptures, ed. by F. Feder - M. Henze, Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. 436a-439b, 2020

This essay on the Syriac versions of Tobit appears in Volume 2 of the Textual History of the Bibl... more This essay on the Syriac versions of Tobit appears in Volume 2 of the Textual History of the Bible, edited by Armin Lange, concerning the Deuterocanonical Scriptures of the Old Testament, in particular in Vol.2C, in which the Book of Tobit is also included. According to the novelty of the methodological perspective of this work, we do not focus mainly on the most important testimonia textus, in view of the reconstruction of the original of each book, but rather we aim to examine all the known textual witnesses of each of the biblical books, paying therefore particular attention to the manuscript traditions, and considering specifically all the single linguistic traditions in which they come.
This article therefore presents: 1. Manuscripts and Editions - 2. Translation Character: The First Section (1:1-7:11); The Second Section (7:11 [1° brm]-14:15) - 3. Translation Technique and Inner-Translational Features - Text-Critical Value.

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in R. Littman (ed.), Tobit, in A. Lange (ed.), The Textual History of the Bible, vol. 2C. The Deuterocanonical Scriptures, ed. by F. Feder - M. Henze, Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. 413a-424b, 2020

This essay on the Greek versions of Tobit appears in Volume 2 of the Textual History of the Bible... more This essay on the Greek versions of Tobit appears in Volume 2 of the Textual History of the Bible, edited by Armin Lange, concerning the Deuterocanonical Scriptures of the Old Testament, in particular in Vol.2C, in which the Book of Tobit is also included. According to the novelty of the methodological perspective of this work, we do not focus mainly on the most important testimonia textus, in view of the reconstruction of the original of each book, but rather we aim to examine all the known textual witnesses of each of the biblical books, paying therefore particular attention to the manuscript traditions, and considering specifically all the single linguistic traditions in which they come.
This article therefore presents: 1.The Forms of the Text: Origin, Historical Data and Problems - 2. Text Editions: The Cambridge Project; The Göttingen Project - 3. The Synoptic Editions: Wagner’s Polyglotte; Weeks, Gathercole, and Stuckenbruck Synopsis - 4. History of Scholarship: The Discovery of LXX-S; Text-Critical Approach - 5.The Problem of Priority between the Textual Forms: The Contribution of GIII; Comparison between GI and GII - 6. Translation Techniques: the Problem of the Semitisms - 7.The Search for the Urtext.

in E. Bons (ed.), Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, vol. I, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, pp. 1379-1390, 2020

In a historical and philological perspective, this essay illustrates the semantic development of ... more In a historical and philological perspective, this essay illustrates the semantic development of the meaning of the corradical terms Ἀφορίζω, ἀφόρισμα, ἀφορισμός through the various cultural ages. Therefore, it highlights the uses, the various recontextualizations and eventual re-semantizations that they underwent starting from the Classics up to assuming theological value in the biblical world. In particular, the occurrences of these three terms are analyzed in Greek literature, in papyri and inscriptions, in LXX, in Jewish literature of the Greek language, in the New Testament and in ancient Christian literature.

in A. Canova - G. Gregorini, a cura di, Storia e cultura a Brescia dall’antichità ai nostri giorni. Lavori in corso del Dipartimento di Scienze storiche e filologiche dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Ricerche - Storia), pp. 277-288, 2019

This essay on Biblical Jewish Philology belongs to the volume celebrating the research activity o... more This essay on Biblical Jewish Philology belongs to the volume celebrating the research activity of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. First of all, the Department's initiatives to introduce the figure and scientific work of great orientalists of Brescia origin, trained in the study of the Hebrew Bible, were presented: thanks to their library funds - and to that of Giovanni Garbini, recently received - it was possible set up the "Felice Montagnini" Library of historical-philological studies on the Bible, the "Francesco Vattioni" Archive of bibliographic and documentary sources of the ancient Near East, and the "Luigi Cagni" Seminar of Studies on Languages ​​and Cultures of the Near East and Mediterranean. Then, three important editorial initiatives are illustrated: they have produced valuable tools for the philological study of the Hebrew Bible. This is the Soncino Bible published in Brescia (15th century), the Hebrew Scroll, found at the University of Brescia (13th century), and the first complete translation into Italian of the Greek Bible (20th century).

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in L’opera di Luigi Cagni: 1929-1998, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 127-153, 2018

A Bibliography of the Scientific Writings of Luigi Cagni

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in L’opera di Luigi Cagni: 1929-1998, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 123-126, 2018

A brief biographical note of L. Cagni: Life, Education, Academic Degrees, and Teaching

in L’opera di Luigi Cagni: 1929-1998, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 11-14, 2018

On the 20th anniversary of the death of Luigi Cagni, scholar of Assyriology and Hebrew Bible

in L’opera di Luigi Cagni: 1929-1998, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 105-118, Apr 1, 2018

We study here the philological features of Cagni’s biblical studies. Exegete, commentator and tra... more We study here the philological features of Cagni’s biblical studies. Exegete, commentator and translator, his interest in the Bible grew gradually in the field of Assyriology, aimed at the meticulous research of textual truth, through the comparativistic analysis with the Mesopotamians sources. In fact, clear analogies to the Biblical story of creation seem to indicate a contamination of Sumerian and Akkadian mythology. Cagni discusses the extra-Biblical origins of Israel’s prophecy, studying 52 Mari prophetic texts

in M.E. Boring, Introduzione al Nuovo Testamento. Storia, letteratura, teologia [ed. orig.: An Introduction to the New Testament: History, Literature, Theology, Louisville, KY, Westminster John Knox Press, 2012], vol. I (Biblioteca del Commentario Paideia 2), pp. 88-116, 2016

Nuova sia per l'impostazione sia per l'equilibrio con cui vengono affrontate le questioni storich... more Nuova sia per l'impostazione sia per l'equilibrio con cui vengono affrontate le questioni storiche, culturali, letterarie e teologiche connesse con i testi raccolti sotto il titolo di Nuovo Testamento, questa introduzione di Eugene Boring si segnala per l'estrema chiarezza con cui vengono articolate le problematiche più complesse -ad esempio la questione sinottica -e al tempo stesso per l'originalità con cui si espongono gli aspetti salienti messi in luce dallo studio critico della Bibbia negli ultimi decenni. Il lavoro di Boring è frutto di una vita di studi dedicati alla ricerca biblica e all'insegnamento del Nuovo Testamento, ed è più che un libro: è una vera biblioteca in un unico volume, in cui l'autore dà prova di saper combinare una rara quanto approfondita conoscenza di ogni singolo scritto neotestamentario con una solida e innovativa visione dell'insieme del Nuovo Testamento e delle ragioni teologiche dei generi letterari degli scritti che lo compongono. Questo libro della chiesa è illustrato in tutta la sua complessità, dalla domanda più semplice -perché «testamento» e perché «nuovo»?all'interrogativo più attuale: perché una comunità di fede organizzata attorno a una parola che sempre la trascende? M. Eugene Boring è professore emerito di Nuovo Testamento alla Brite Divinity School della Texas Christian University di Fort Worth. Autore di numerosi saggi e studi, è noto per importanti commenti a scritti del Nuovo Testamento, in particolare al vangelo di Marco e all'Apocalisse di Giovanni. ISBN 97888394 08907 2 COMMENTARIO PAIDEIA M. EUGENE BORING INTRODUZIONE AL NUOVO TESTAMENTO 1 M. EUGENE BORING CP.B 02 A 65,00 INTRODUZIONE AL NUOVO TESTAMENTO 1 INTRODUZIONE AL NUOVO TESTAMENTO 1 1 1 COP Boring, Introduzione nuovo testamento_COP BORING 12/04/16 18.34 Pagina 1

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in L’opera di Francesco Vattioni: 1922-1995, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 95-97, 2016

A brief biographical note of F. Vattioni: Life, Education, Academic Degrees, and Teaching

in L’opera di Francesco Vattioni: 1922-1995, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 11-13, 2016

The 20th anniversary of the death of Francesco Vattioni, scholar of Biblical and Semitic Philology

in L’opera di Francesco Vattioni: 1922-1995, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 57-76, 2016

We study here the philological features of Vattioni’s biblical studies. Exegete, commentator and ... more We study here the philological features of Vattioni’s biblical studies. Exegete, commentator and translator, his interest in the Bible grew gradually in the field of philology, aimed at the meticulous research of textual truth, through the reconstruction of the transmission of the biblical text. He thus effected the famous multilingual edition of Ecclesiasticus, and a study on the Book of Job in sight of a critical edition, while he devoted a special attention to the Book of Tobit, by studying its Latin textual tradition in Spanish via the collation of the manuscripts of the Vetus Latina (the Speculum, the first Bible of Alcalá, and the Bible of Roda)

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in L’opera di Francesco Vattioni: 1922-1995, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 99-138, 2016

A Bibliography of the Scientific Writings of Francesco Vattioni

in M. Milani – M. Zappella (eds.), «Ricercare la Sapienza di tutti gli antichi» (Sir 39,1). Studi in onore di Gian Luigi Prato nel suo settantesimo compleanno (Supplementi alla Rivista Biblica 56), pp. 245-262, 2013

in L’opera di Felice Montagnini, a cura di Giancarlo Toloni, pp. 9-10, 2013

The 90th birthday of Felice Montagnini, scholar of biblical philology

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in Raccolte Storiche - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, May 20, 2022

The Seminary of the Near East and the Mediterranean was established in 2018 in the Brescia Campus... more The Seminary of the Near East and the Mediterranean was established in 2018 in the Brescia Campus of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. It is dedicated to the memory of Luigi Cagni, an orientalist of Brescian origins and of international fame as an Assyriologist, who linked his name to the famous Neapolitan conferences with which studies on the Ebla language (Syria) began, attested by the finds found by the Mission Italian Archaeological (1975). The purpose of the seminar is to preserve the collections of the "Felice Montagnini" Library of historical-philological studies on the Bible, and of the "Francesco Vattioni" Archive of bibliographic and documentary sources, and to coordinate their research and study activities on the Bible in the context of literature of the ancient Near East.

On May 3, 2018 a Seminar of studies in Languages and cultures of the Near East and the Mediterran... more On May 3, 2018 a Seminar of studies in Languages and cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean will be inaugurated in Brescia, in memory of Fr. Luigi Cagni, a Barnabite of Brescian origins, Assyriologist and philologist of the Hebrew Bible, internationally renowned

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The new Archive of Bibliographic and Documentary Sources on the Ancient Near East is born from th... more The new Archive of Bibliographic and Documentary Sources on the Ancient Near East is born from the personal library of Msgr. Francesco Vattioni, which his Family donated in his memory to Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Catholic University. The inauguration ceremony held on March 10, 2016, an occasion for revisiting the scientific work of Vattioni, in the 20th anniversary of his death.

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The new Library of Historical and Philological Studies on the Bible is born from the personal lib... more The new Library of Historical and Philological Studies on the Bible is born from the personal library which prof. Felice Montagnini has donated to the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Catholic University. On October 24, 2013 the inauguration ceremony there will be, to express gratitude to the professor on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday

Colui che deve venire. Edizione italiana a cura di Giancarlo Toloni (Studi biblici 205), Torino, Paideia 2021, pp. 280. ISBN 9788839409652. © Claudiana srl Editrice, marchio Paideia., 2021

This is the revision of the English translation of Joseph A. Fitzmyer's volume, The One Who is to... more This is the revision of the English translation of Joseph A. Fitzmyer's volume, The One Who is to Come, Grand Rapids, MI, Wm.B. Eerdmans, 2007, and of the curatorship of its Italian edition. The essay examines the use of the term 'messiah' in Jewish and Judaic, as well as Christian, literature to highlight the differences between the perspectives of messianism in Judaism and Christianity

Peer-review. Articoli e note inviati per la pubblicazione alla rivista sono sottoposti -nella for... more Peer-review. Articoli e note inviati per la pubblicazione alla rivista sono sottoposti -nella forma del doppio anonimato -a peer-review di due esperti, di cui uno almeno esterno al Comitato Scientifico o alla Direzione. Nel secondo fascicolo delle annate pari è pubblicato l'elenco dei revisori.

The figure of Gershom ben Moseh Soncino, the greatest Jewish printer of all time, shines through ... more The figure of Gershom ben Moseh Soncino, the greatest Jewish printer of all time, shines through his biography. The Brescia period (1491-97) of its typographical activity stands between the beginnings in Soncino (1488-90) and the failed attempt to settle in Venice (1498-1502). In Brescia (1491-95) he published eight editions of biblical and secular texts, including the famous entire edition of the Hebrew Bible and the "Fable of the ancients" (Meshal ha-qadmoni); in Barco of Orzinuovi (1496-97) three works, among which the Selichot.

Conference held in the Convention "30 years of the Museum of Printing” - Second Session, organize... more Conference held in the Convention "30 years of the Museum of Printing” - Second Session, organized by the Soncino Jewish Printers Center, at the Martinengo Castle - Barco di Orzinuovi (Brescia), on November 18, 2018.

Conference held in the Convention "Twenty years after the death of Fr. Luigi Cagni, Barnabite, As... more Conference held in the Convention "Twenty years after the death of Fr. Luigi Cagni, Barnabite, Assyriologist and Hebrew Scholar of Brescia", at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Brescia, on May 3, 2018, for the inauguration of the "Luigi Cagni" Seminar Studies in Languages and Cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean, of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences

History and vicissitudes of the famous Jewish family of printers, descending from Moseh Spira's, ... more History and vicissitudes of the famous Jewish family of printers, descending from Moseh Spira's, and moved to Italy towards the end of the century. XIV. To them we owe the first partial editions of the Bible (Psalter and Torah), and the first complete (Hebrew Bible Soncino). Two important specimens (one with nice miniatures) of the third edition of this Bible, work by Gershom Soncino (Brescia 1494), are kept in the civic Biblioteca Queriniana. This is the best complete edition of the Bible Soncino; its reduced size, in eighth, ensured a wide diffusion. This "pocket" Bible was adopted by Luther for his translation of the AT into German (1522-34), conducted by texts written in the original languages.

Conference held at the Convention "Giovanni Garbini, Il vangelo aramaico di Matteo. Memoriale di ... more Conference held at the Convention "Giovanni Garbini, Il vangelo aramaico di Matteo. Memoriale di un maestro nell’ultima opera" - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia on April 10, 2017

The Library of Historical and Philological Studies on the Bible is born from the personal library... more The Library of Historical and Philological Studies on the Bible is born from the personal library which Felice Montagnini has donated to Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Catholic University, Brescia. This conference was held at the convention for the inauguration of the Library (October 24, 2013), a happy occasion to express gratitude to the professor, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday

The Archive of Bibliographic and Documentary Sources on the Ancient Near East is born from the pe... more The Archive of Bibliographic and Documentary Sources on the Ancient Near East is born from the personal library of Francesco Vattioni, which his Family donated in his memory to Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Catholic University, Brescia. This conference was held at the convention (March 10, 2016) for the inauguration of the Archive, a happy occasion for revisiting the scientific work of Vattioni in the 20th anniversary of his death

Biographical Profile, Research and Scientific Work of Francesco Vattioni and of Luigi Cagni, two ... more Biographical Profile, Research and Scientific Work of Francesco Vattioni and of Luigi Cagni, two eminent Orientalists of Brescia.
The activities of the Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Brescia to celebrate their memory, twenty years after their death