Dr. Lucas Brum Teixeira

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

1996-1998 Associate in Arts (A.A.) in Classical Humanities, Cheshire CT, USA

1998-2000 Bachelors in Philosophy (Ph.B), Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome, IT

2004-2007 Bachelors in Sacred Theology (S.T.B.), Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome, IT

2007-2010 Licentiate in Sacred Scripture (S.S.L.), Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, IT
Licentiate Thesis: “Σπλάγχνα ἐλέους. Exegesis and Theology of Lk 1:78-79”
[Director: Prof. Dr. Ansgar Wucherpfennig, SI, SSL, SThD]

2010-2017 Doctorate in Sacred Scripture (S.S.D), Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, IT
Doctoral Dissertation (OT, Deuterocanonical Literature, Book of Tobit): “Poetics
and Narrative Function of Tob 6:2-18” (defended: May 29th, 2017) Director: Prof. Dr. Luca Mazzinghi SSD
[Publication: Poetics and Narrative Function of Tobit 6 (DCLS Series 41; Walter De Gruyter, Berlin 2019)]

2020-2023 Post-Doctoral Research: DFG-Project: Jerome’s Vulgata Version of Tobit and Its Reception in 
the Jewish Medieval Text ”Hebraeus Londini of Tobit” (Prof. Dr. Beate Ego)


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2010-2011 Pentateuch and Historical Books of the OT Biblical Hebrew (English Course)

2011-2012 Pentateuch and Historical Books of the OT Biblical Hebrew (English Course) Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome

 

 

Publications

MONOGRAPHS

2014 Vida de María - Life of Mary (Bilingual Edition Spanish-English for Children) (Liguori Publications - Liguori, MO 2014)
Guadalupe (Bilingual Edition Spanish-English for Children) (Liguori Publications - Liguori, MO 2014)

CO-AUTHOR WITH W. A. ANDERSON, PhD FOR “ESTUDIO BÍBLICO CATÓLICO DE LIBROS LIGUORI” (Liguori Publications USA):
2015 Libros Históricos: Josué, Jueces, Ruth, 1 y 2 de Samuel, 1 y 2 de Reyes, 1 y 2 de Crónicas, Esdras y Nehemías 
(EBCLL; Liguori, MO 2015)

Epístolas universales y Apocalipsis: Juan 1, 2 y 3, Santiago, Pedro 1 y 2, Judas, Apocalipsis (EBCLL; Liguori, MO 2015)

Narraciones Bíblicas: Tobías, Judit, Ester y 1o y 2o Macabeos (EBCLL; Liguori, MO 2015)

2016 Libros Sapienciales: Job, Salmos, Proverbios, Qohelet, Cantar de los Cantares y Sirácide (EBCLL; Liguori, MO 2016)

2017 Libros proféticos I: Isaías, Jeremías, Lamentaciones, Baruc, Ezequiel y Daniel (EBCLL; Liguori, MO 2017)

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2019 Poetics and Narrative Function of Tobit 6 (DCLS 41; Berlin – New York 2019)

2023 A Bíblia. Translation into Portuguese with Introductions and Notes (Tobit, Judith, Baruc, Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon) 
(São Paulo 2023) 

ARTICLES

2007 “Povo da Vida e pela Vida”. A Igreja Povo de Deus e sua vocação missionária pela Vida (M. P. Casanova - T. D. Williams (eds.) 
Discípulos y misioneros de Jesucristo (Coll. Saggi 6; Roma 2007)

2008 “La Sacra Scrittura è essenziale per conoscere Cristo”. Intervista al Card. Albert Vanhoye, SI (in zenit.org, Sept. 9th, 2008)

2020 “‘Magis sensum e sensu quam ex verbo verbum’ (Hier. Prol. Iud.): Jerome’s Translation Art in the Vulgate of Tobit in Dossier 
Revista de Cultura Teológica 1600 Anos da Morte de São Jerônimo, n.97 (Set/Dez) (São Paulo 2020)

2021 “Ideas of Time in the Diaspora Tale of Tobit: Tobit’s Incipit (1:1–2) as Case Study” in S. Beyerle – M. Goff (eds.), Notions of 
Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (DCLY 2020/2021; De Gruyter: Berlin – Boston 2021) 285-294.

2022 “Narrative Criticism, Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) vol. 20 
(ed. T. Römer – S. L. McKenzie et al.) (Berlin – New York 2022) 807-809

2022 “Narrate omnia mirabilia eius” (Tob 12:20 Vg). Jerome’s Vulgate Version of Tobit as a Wundergeschichte (with Beate Ego) 
in József Zsengellér (ed.) Understanding Texts in Early Judaism. Studies on Biblical, Qumranic, Deuterocanonical and Cognate 
Literature in Memory of Géza Xeravits (DCLS 48; Berlin – New York 2022) 153-160

2022 “Accipite Iudith Viduam (Hier. Prol. Iud. 11). Jerome’s Ideas of Christian Widowhood in the Book of Judith of the Vulgate” 
in Vulgata in Dialogue 6 (2022) 35-40

2023 “Jerome’s Vg of Tobit in Medieval Judaism”; “Jerome’s Knowledge of Aramaic” in Michael Fieger – Brigitta Schmid (Hg.), 
Sprache und Welt der Vulgata linguistische und historische Schlaglichter (Berlin – Boston 2023) (forthcoming)

2023 “Accipies virginem cum timore Domini (Tob. 6:22 Vg). Jerome’s Translation Technique and Ascetic Ideals in the Vulgate of 
Tobit” in Vulgata in Dialogue (Special Issue 2022, 2023) 85-92