IN MEMORIAM
FR. Francolino Gonçalvès OP
PROFESSOR EMERITUS,
Member of the Scientific Council of Cadmo (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon),
Member of the Scientific Council of Revista Lusófona of Ciência das Religiões (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon).
Province of Portugal
Born on 28 March 1943 in Corujas, Macedo de Cavaleiros (Portugal).
Died on 15 June 2017 in Jerusalem (Jerusalem).
Specialty: Biblical prophecy and prophetic literature and the Old Testament yahvisms.
MODERN LANGUAGES
– French (read, written, spoken)
– Portuguese (read, written, spoken)
– English (read, written, spoken)
ANCIENT LANGUAGES
– Ancient Hebrew
Features
Since 2013 – Professor Emeritus of the Biblical and Archaeological School.
Member of the Scientific Council of Cadmo (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon).
Member of the Scientific Council of Revista Lusófona of Ciência das Religiões (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon).
Member of the “Consejo de Asesoramiento Internacional” of Revista Bíblica, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Member of the Editorial Board of Revista Dominicana de Teologia, São Paulo (Brazil).
“Investigador integrado”, Centro de Estudos of Religiões and Culturas Cardeal Höffner, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon.
Member of the Advisory Board of Res Antiquitatis. Journal of Ancient History “, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Universidade dos Açores (Portugal).
Member of the Scientific Council of Roczniki Kulturoznawcze / Annals of Cultural Studies / Annals of Cultural Studies, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Lublin, Poland.
Academic degrees
1960-65 – Studium Sedes Sapientiae, Padres Dominicanos, Fátima. Studies in philosophy and theology.
1965-67 and 1968-69 – Faculty of Theology, Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology, Ottawa (Canada): Reader in Sacred Theology (1967) and Maîtrise in Theology (1969).
1969-75 – French Biblical and Archaeological School, Jerusalem. Fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (1970-75): Full-time student (1970) and Graduate student (1971).
1970-1971 – Pontifical Biblical Commission: Baccalauréat (1970) and Bachelor’s degree (1971) in Biblical sciences.
1980-1985 – Orientalist Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium): Bachelor (1981) and Doctorate in Eastern philology and history (1986).
1987 – Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal): Doctorate in History of Antiquity.
Education
1975-1988 – Lecturer.
1988-1995 – Extraordinary Professor of the Old Testament.
1995-2013 – Ordinary Professor of the Old Testament.
Awards
Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru (09/09/2000).
Member of Academia Portuguesa da História, elected “Académico de Mérito” the 16/07/2010.
Price “Pedro Hispano” 2011 (Portugal).
Academic and scientific activities
At the École Biblique :
Administrative and / or scientific activities
1976-1979 and 1986-1992, Vice-Director of the School.
1991-2015, Director of the Bibliographic Studies and Cahiers de la Revue Biblique (Paris, Gabalda).
1991-1997, Director of the Studies Collection of the Jerusalem Bible (Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf),
1994-2015, Secretary of the Bible Review for the Old Testament.
In other institutions
Academic Activities
Member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (since 04/11/2008).
Professor at the Instituto São Tomás de Aquino (ISTA), Fátima and Lisbon, Portugal), since 1968.
Invited professor in several academic institutions, the most representative being:
Facultad de Teología, Universidad Pontificia de México, Mexico, 1989.
Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1990.
Instituto Oriental, Universidade de Lisboa, regularly between 1991 and 2009.
Faculdade de Teologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 1991, 1993, 1998, 2004 and 2009.
Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome (“Joseph Gregory McCarthy Professorship 1995”).
Faculty of Theology, Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology, Ottawa, Canada, 1998.
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Religious Sciences Section, Paris, (Visiting Director of Studies in 2001, 2003 and 2007).
Faculdade de Teologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2004).
Facultad de Teología, Universidad Pontifícia of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, 2012).
Publications
* L’expédition de Sennachérib en Palestine dans la littérature hébraïque ancienne (Études Bibliques, NS 7). xi-578 pp. Paris, J. Gabalda, 1986 = (Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 34), Louvain-la-Neuve, Université Catholique de Louvain/Institut Orientaliste, 1986.
* En collaboration avec Th. L. THOMPSON et J. M. VAN CANGH, Toponymie palestinienne. Plaine de st Jean d’Acre et Corridor de Jérusalem (Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 37). 132 pp. Louvain-la-Neuve, Université Catholique de Louvain/Institut Orientaliste, 1988.
Last Articles
* “Raab” in Verbo. Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Cultura (Lisboa-São Paulo: Editorial Verbo/Edição Século XXI, 2002) vol. 22, col. 682; “O fim e o recomeço no profetismo bíblico” Revista Portuguesa de Ciência das Religiões 1 (2002) 33-42.
* “Concepção deuteronomista dos profetas e sua posteridade” Disaskalia 33 (2003) 73-96.
* « Deux systèmes religieux dans l’Ancien Testament: de la concurrence à la convergence », Annuaire de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études. Section des sciences religieuses 115 (2006-07) 117-122 (publié en 2008).
* «A Vida e a Morte no Antigo Testamento», Cadernos ISTA 20 (2007) 69-108 (publié en 2008).
* «As mulheres na Bíblia: Realidades e metáforas», Cadernos ISTA 21 (2008) 109-159.
* «Fundamentos da mensagem moral dos profetas bíblicos», Cadmo 18 (2008) 9-29.
* «Enjeux et possibilités de la quête du sens historique originaire. Est-ce la même chose que le sens littéral ? », in Olivier-Thomas Venard (ed.), Le sens littéral des Écritures (Lectio Divina. Hors Série), Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2009, pp. 47-74.