Beatrice Bonanno

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Dr. Beatrice Bonanno is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biblical Studies, Department of New Testament.

She earned her Ph.D. in Theology from UCLouvain (Belgium) in 2022. Prior to that, she completed a degree in Classical Philology (University of Bologna, Italy; BA 2015, MA 2018) as well as a Certificat en études bibliques (UCLouvain, 2018). At UCLouvain, she held a postdoctoral position funded by the prestigious Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and taught Biblical Greek (2022–2025). She undertook several research stays abroad, including at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2019), the University of Vienna (2021, 2024), Arizona State University (Phoenix, USA, 2023), and the Phoenix Seminar (Phoenix, USA, 2023).

Her research focuses on the Greek Bible (the Septuagint, its revisions, and the New Testament) as well as on the relationships between Jews and Christians in the early centuries. She is interested in the textual transmission of the Bible and, consequently, in all its textual witnesses (of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the New Testament, and the deuterocanonical literature).

In addition to several scholarly articles, she is the author of The Septuagint of Ruth: Translation Technique, Textual History, and Theological Issues (Brepols, 2024) and of the adaptation La mia Rut (Paoline, 2024).

Furthermore, she serves as Program Chair and Meeting Coordinator of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) for the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) and is co-founder and co-chair of the research unit “The Greek Bible between Judaism and Christianity” within the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS).