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Fr. Pablo Gadenz
Fr. Pablo Gadenz is a priest of the Diocese of Trenton, NJ, and is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.
He received his licentiate in Scripture (S.S.L.) from the Pontifical Biblical Institute (2005) and his doctorate in biblical theology (S.T.D.) from the Pontifical Gregorian University (2008). His published dissertation is titled Called from the Jews and from the Gentiles: Pauline Ecclesiology in Romans 9–11 (WUNT 2.267; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck 2009).
Ordained in 1996, Fr. Gadenz served in various pastoral and administrative assignments in the diocese before continuing his biblical studies in Rome. Prior to his ordination, he obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton and Columbia Universities, and worked in that field for three years. He prepared for the priesthood at Franciscan University, Steubenville, and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia. On a personal note, he was born of native Italian parents near Santiago, Chile, in 1967, and his family moved to the U.S. in 1969.
Fr. Gadenz is also the author of two chapters in Catholic for a Reason: Scripture and the Mystery of the Family of God, an article on Rom 9:24-29 in the Letter & Spirit journal (2006), and several book reviews. Moreover, he is the translator (from Italian) of a monograph on Paul’s use of Scripture in Rom 9–11. Father Gadenz is a member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America and the Society of Biblical Literature.
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