Liber Annuus

A group of polychrome glass pendants from the Museum of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum is published here for the first time. It represents an updating of M. Seefriedʼs work, “Les pendantifs en verre sur noyau des pays de la Méditerranée antique”. Seven polychrome glass pendants, four of which are polychrome glass animal figurines and four small glass heads, are studied here. They can be classified in the following manner: A – demon heads -, B3 – male heads with twisted hair style -, B4 – double-faced heads -, C2 – the male heads with curly hair -, D2 – female heads. The animal figurines are classified by Seefried as type E, which includes the animal representations. Finally, the group of the four small heads, different from the type identified by Seefried, represent the head of the hat-pins or of the small stick for the make-up known both in the East and in the West, especially in the burial equipments dating back to imperial Rome.

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.