Prof. Dariusz Dziadosz is a professor ordinarius of theological sciences in the discipline of biblical studies. He is the head of the Department of Historical, Prophetic, and Sapiential Books of the Old Testament at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. His research interests focus on the Old Testament historical books, especially the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic Historiography of Israel (Josh – 2 Kings).
Born in 1968 in Lidzbark Warmiński, he is a Roman Catholic priest of the Przemyśl archdiocese ordained in june 1993. He worked as a vicar in the parishes of Rymanów and Strachocina. From 2006 to 2017 he was a rector of Theological Seminary in Przemyśl. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer on the Old Testament at the Catholic University of Lublin and at Theological Seminaries in Lublin and Przemyśl. He completed his philosophical and theological studies with a master's degree in theology from the Catholic University of Lublin for his thesis on the Old Testament titled: Man Created in the Image of God, written under the direction of Rev. Prof. Stanisław Potocki. From 1995 to 2002, he studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, where he earned a bachelor's and a doctoral degrees in biblical studies. He received a doctoral degree for his dissertation: Gli oracoli divini in 1Sam 8 - 2Re 25, written under the guidance of Fathers Professors: Stephen Pisano, SJ and Maurice Gilbert, SJ and published under the title: Gli oracoli divini in 1 Sam 8 - 2 Re 25. Redazione e teologia nella storia deuteronomistica dei Re (Rome 2002). In 2007, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Theological Sciences in Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of Lublin on the basis of an evaluation of his overall scientific achievements and a monograph entitled: Monarch Rejected by God and the People. The process of redaction of biblical traditions about Saul (Przemyśl 2006). On August 4, 2023 the President of the Republic of Poland conferred on him the title of professor of theological sciences in the discipline of biblical sciences.
In addition to his doctoral and postdoctoral dissertations published in print, he is the author of four other monographs on Old Testament exegesis and theology: "So it was in the beginning..." Israel Tells Its History. Literary and Theological Analysis of the Leading Traditions of Genesis (Przemyśl 2011, pp. 557); The Book of Judges. Chapters 1-5 Series: New Biblical Commentary. Old Testament. Volume VII, Part I (St. Paul's Edition 2019, pp. 586); The Book of Judges. Chapters 6-12. series: New Bible Commentary. Old Testament. Volume VII, Part 2 (Saint Paul's Edition 2019, pp. 543); and Gilgal. Bible - Archaeology - Theology. A historical-critical study of the deuteronomistic traditions about the conquest of Canaan (DABAR School Library 4; Bonus Liber; Rzeszow 2022, pp. 696). The latter work is the first comprehensive collection and critical study of Hebrew and Greek biblical texts about Gilgal.
From 2017 to 2021, he taught at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome as an invited scholar and secondo relatore del dottorato at the invitation of H.M. Rector Michael Francis Kolarcik, SJ. Several years of teaching at the doctoral research seminar at PIB in the role of secondo relatore resulted in a doctorate in biblical studies obtained by Daniela De Panfilis on the basis of her dissertation: Il racconto doppio nel Libro di Samuele defended in 2021 and published in Rome in the prestigious publishing series Analecta biblica (235) in 2022.
He is a teacher at Dabar School (www.szkola-dabar.pl), a retreat preacher and a lecturer at the Center for Spiritual Formation of Salvatorian Fathers in Krakow, as well as a preacher regularly propagating the Word of God in various centers and parish communities both in Poland and abroad. He organizes and participates in international and national biblical and theological conferences both scientific and promoting biblical studies. As a reviewer, he cooperates with the editors of journals: Biblical Annals, Verbum Vitae, Pagina Sacra, Studia Gdańskie, Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia and publishers of scientific biblical monographs. He is a board member in the Program Council (Old Testament) of the Urbaniana University Journal. Euntes Docete (Rivista quadrimestrale della Pontificia Università Urbaniana di Roma). He publishes in Polish, English and Italian. He belongs to scientific biblical associations in Poland and abroad. Also, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Polish Biblical Scholars for the term 2023–2028.
