Giovanni Stefano Menochio

Giovanni Stefano Menochio (born December 9, 1575 in Padua , † February 4, 1655 in Rome ) was an Italian Jesuit , university teacher and exegete in the Renaissance .

Menochio's father was the well-known lawyer Giacomo Menochio (1532-1607) from Pavia, who had taught law in Milan. In 1625 Menochio wrote a voluminous work (956 pages of text without indices, dedication and foreword) on the priestly rule, which was entitled: Hieropoliticon, sive institutionis politicae e sacris Scripturis depromptae libri tres , Lyon 1625. In addition to the Latin scripts, works also appeared in his Italian mother tongue. His Brevis explicatio sensus literalis totius Sacrae Scripturae ex optimis quibusque auctoribus per epitome collecta (1630) has been reissued many times and has been widely received .

In 1648 his De republica Hebraeorum libri octo appeared . Menochio wanted to build on the work of Carlo Sigonios , but remained much more committed than this to Roman Catholic theology. With Menochio's work, which comprised almost 800 pages of two columns each, and its Orthodox-Reformed counterpart, the work De republica Hebraeorum. Libri XII (1704) by the Dutch theologian Melchior Leydecker (1642–1721), the Respublica Hebraeorum literature reached its peak in terms of volume.

Even in the introduction Menochio refers to Sigonio and tries to portray him as an Orthodox author who remained committed to Roman Catholic teaching. But although Menochio's title architecture of the work still shows similarities in many points and there is still a main interest in a legal consideration, his De republica Hebraeorum libri octo no longer have much in common with Sigonio's contribution to the subject. Menochio gave new subjects such as B. paid attention to the habits ( consuetudines ) and rites of the Hebrews and chose a question-and-answer scheme ( Quaestio method) for treatment for the entire presentation in relation to Sigonio . Above all, Menochio's Roman Catholic focus is on an independent priesthood, which for him, in addition to a kingship, which is also represented positively, already existed under the Hebrews.

Works

• Giovanni Stefano Menochio: Hieropoliticωn siue Institutiones politicæ e S. Scripturis depromptæ, libri tres . Sumptibus Ludovici Prost, haeredis Roville, Lugduni 1625 (Latin, google.it ).
• Giovanni Stefano Menochio: Institutionis oeconomicae ex sacris litteris depromptae libri duo . ex officina Rouilliana: sumptib. Andreae et Iacobi Prost, Lugduni 1627 (Latin, google.it ).
• Giovanni Stefano Menochio: Brevis explicatio sensus litteralis totius scripturae . Ioannes Kinchius, Coloniae Agrippinae 1630 (Latin, google.it ).
• Giovanni Stefano Menochio: De republica Hebreorum . sumptibus Antonii Bertier, via Iacobæa, sub signo Fortunæ, Parisiis 1648 (Latin, google.it ).
• Historia vitae Christi , in-4 °;
• Historia sacra ex libro Actuum Apostolorum , in-4 °.
• Diatribae eruditae seu storeae etc., 6 full. in-4 °, Rome , 1647.
• De Œconomia Christiana , Venice , in-4 °, 1656
• Historia sacra miscella ex variis auctoribus , Venice, 1657.

literature

• Markus M. Totzeck: The Political Laws of Moses: Origin and Influences of Politia Judaica Literature in the Early Modern Age (= Refo500 academic studies. Volume 49). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-647-57073-0 .
• Walter Drum:  Giovanni Stefano Menochio . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.
• Stefania Pastore:  Menochio, Giovanni Stefano. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 73:  Meda-Messadaglia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2009.

Web links

• Publications by im Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
• Menochio, Giovanni Stefano. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved October 15, 2019.