Ricordo di Marco Adinolfi (1919-2005) servitore della Parola di Dio

Father Marco Adinolfi, an Italian Friar Minor (1919-2005) has been a Professor of Sacred Scripture for many years in the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum of Jerusalem and in the Theological Faculty of the Pontificia Universitas Antonianum of Rome. The author remembers though briefly the life, the curriculum of studies, and the special rapport Fr. Adinolfi had with the SBF and with the Custody of the Holy Land. All his publications are shown in chronological order. The vast bibliography of Fr. Adinolfi centers around some arguments which he particularly developed in depth in his teaching and research: History and Historiography, Mary of Nazaret, the Holy Places, the Twelve Apostles and St. Paul, the Common Priesthood of the Faithful, Feminism of the Bible, and the relationship between Hellenistic Culture and the Bible. Lastly, Fr. Adinolfi has shown himself to be an untiring servant of the Word of God in his biblical apostolate in the Church.