The Team
Principal Investigator
Corrado Martone, PhD (1995) in Jewish Studies, University of Turin, is Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and Jewish History at the University of Turin. He is President of the Italian Association for Jewish Studies (AISG) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Journal Henoch - Historical and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity and of the Conseil Académique of Revue de Qumran. Corrado has extensively written on Jewish history and literature of the Second temple period and on textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. He is the author of the most complete Italian translation of the Qumran texts and of an Introduction to the Judaism of the Second Temple period.
Unit Coordinator (Florence)
Romina Vergari, PhD (2010) in Linguistics (University of Perugia), is Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Florence. She has been a member of the editorial board of the first volume of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2020). She has written on Hebrew semantics and pragmatics as well as on contrastive analysis of Hebrew and Greek lexica. On this topic she authored Toward a Contrastive Semantics of the Biblical Lexicon. The nouns of Rules and Regulations in Biblical Hebrew Historical-narrative Language and their Greek equivalents in the Septuagint (Firenze, SEF, 2021).
Sebastiano Crestani, PhD (2023) in Jewish Studies, University of Bologna, is Research Fellow at the University of Turin and Lecturer of History of Judaism at the University of Padua and at the University of Venice. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Henoch - Historical and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity. His main research areas include Jewish medieval apocalypticism and eschatology and Jewish medieval literature and culture.
Alberto Legnaioli, PhD (2019) in Comparative Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Linguistics and Oriental Studies), University of Florence, is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Florence. He is Adjunct Professor of Hebrew Literature at the same institution. His research interests range from Hebrew linguistics and lexical semantics to literary criticism.