BIBLICAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
A New Method for Understanding the Bible
RBS offers its customary three-day Biblical Rhetorical Analysis Learning Seminar at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
The Seminar will be held from 21 to 23 September 2026.
For information and to register, visit the page dedicated to the Thirteenth RBS Seminar.
REGISTRATION OPEN The first annual online seminar in English is launched for the year 2025/2026. The seminar sessions will be led by Bernard Witek, professor and member of the RBS and its Treasurer...
Rome, Pontifical Gregorian University 24/26 September 2026 The RBS Association invites contributions for its forthcoming Biennial Conference that relate to its specific field, biblical and Semitic...
Lectio Magistralis by Fr. Michel Cuypers at the Ninth International Conference of the RBS (Rome, 28 September 2024) We reproduce below the Closing Lecture of the Ninth International Conference on...
Lectio Magistralis by Fr Roland Meynet at the Ninth RBS International Conference (Rome, 26 September 2024) The following is the opening Lecture of the Ninth International Conference, by Fr Roland...
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome 26 – 28 September 2024 The Conference will be held in the Central Palace of the Pontifical Gregorian University (Room C 209) with lecturers and researchers...
Rome, 23-25 September 2024 OPEN REGISTRATIONS RBS offers its customary three-day Biblical Rhetorical Analysis Learning Seminar, before the International Conference (26-28 September) takes place, at...
Rome, Pontifical Gregorian University 26/28 September 2024 The RBS Association invites contributions for its forthcoming Biennial Conference that relate to its specific field, biblical and Semitic...
Rome, 25-29 September 2023 OPEN REGISTRATIONS RBS offers its Tenth Five-day Learning Seminar of Biblical Rhetorical Analysis, at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome). The Seminar will be held...
OPEN ENROLMENTS Launch of the first seminar in French, to be held on line during the academic year 2023-24. The work will be led by Roland Meynet, Jesuit, professor emeritus of biblical theology at...
As the Christmas festivities draw to a close, we offer you a beautiful reflection by Roland Meynet on the Christmas Gospel of Lk 2:1-20, the enigma of the manger! The reflection, in French, is taken...
Lecture by Fr Roland Meynet at the 8th RBS International Conference (1 October 2022) Below is the final lecture of our Eighth Conference, given by Fr Roland Meynet (in Italian). The lecture is...
Rome, from 29 September to 1 October 2022 The International Association for the Study of Biblical and Semitic Rhetoric returns for its biennial International Conference. The event will be held at the...
Rome, 26-28 September 2022 For more information, visit the page dedicated to the IX RBS Seminar.
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome from Thursday 29 to Saturday 1 October 2022 The Society is calling for papers to be presented in its specific field of Biblical and Semitic Rhetoric. Papers can...
Rome, September 27, 2021 / October 1, 2021 The RBS proposes a “Learning Seminar in Biblical Rhetorical Analysis“, lasting three days at the Gregorian University (Rome). The Seminar...
1. Programme The programme is set on R. Meynet’s Exercises on Biblical Rhetorical Analysis. The work will apply email communications and Zoom sessions called upon whenever the student will be...
R. Meynet, Exercises of Biblical Rhetorical Analysis. Translation of the Second French edition, RBSem 53, Peeters, Leuven 2025 (360 p.) These exercises are based on R. Meynet’s Treatise on...
R. Meynet, Treatise on Biblical Rhetoric. Second Complete English Edition. Translation of the Third Revised and Enlarged Edition, RBSem 52, Peeters, Leuven 2025 (653 p.) The fruit of a long history...
R. Meynet, Il Salterio. Quinto Libro (Sal 107-150), RBSem 50, Peeters, Leuven 2025 (751 p.) Classical commentaries study each psalm in isolation. However, there is a growing movement to see if the...
R. Meynet, Il Salterio. Primo Libro (Sal 1-41), RBSem 46, Peeters, Leuven 2025 (639 p.) This is the Italian translation of the first volume of the commentary on the Psalms, published in 2018: Le...
R. Meynet, L’évangile de Marc. Deuxième édition, revue et augmentée, RBSem 45, Peeters, Leuven 2025 (632 p.) For a long time, it was thought that the books of the Bible, being the product of...
R. Meynet, Jesus Christ accomplit les Écritures, RBSem 44, Peeters, Leuven 2024 (234 p.) The portrait of Jesus drawn by the first three Gospels, throughout the story of his passion and resurrection...
