Name Manlio Simonetti | Role Author | |
Books Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church: An Historical Introduction to Patristic Exegesis | ||
Manlio Simonetti (Rome 2 May 1926) is a major Italian expert and scholar in Patristics and the history of Biblical interpretation.
His early studies were in Classics — philology and history, at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1959 he became Professor of Ancient Christian Literature at the University of Cagliari, in 1969 Professor of Church History at La Sapienza. He has also taught at the Augustinianum. He was elected member of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1997. In 2011 Manlio Simonetti was a co-recipient of the Joseph Ratzinger Prize.
His academic publications are numerous, privileging the domains of Biblical interpretation (Job, St. Matthew`s Gospel etc.) in Christian antiquity (e.g. Origen), Christology (notably during the Arian crisis of the Fourth Century), and early Christian literature (including anthologies) .
Several of his most recent articles have appeared (in prime position in most issues since 2000) of Vetera Christianorum published at Edipuglia for the Classics and Christianity Department of the Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro (Bari University).