Mi amigo Senén Vidal. Una vida fecunda al servicio de la biblia

Abstract

Xabier Pikaza, companion and friend of Senén Vidal, collects the main moments of his life, teaching and theological itinerary, in a paper that is divided into two parts. (A) The first, more biographical, focuses on the doctoral thesis of S. Vidal (1979) and the years of his professorship at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (1980-1984), explaining the reasons for his “cessation”, which has marked his entire personal and intellectual life. (B) The second part, a bio-bibliographical type, collects and analyzes the themes and moments of S. Vidal’s research, highlighting his analysis of Paul’s “corpus”, the unfolding of Jesus’ history and the translation and commentary on the New Testament; it concludes by recalling the legacy of his biblical life, which was to end with a History of Primitive Christianity.