Giuseppe Veltri

Giuseppe Veltri ( born January 4, 1958 in San Giovanni in Fiore, Calabria, Italy ) is an Italian Judaic scholar.

Life

Giuseppe Veltri was born in San Giovanni in Fiore, Calabria, Italy. He studied from 1978 to 1983 Philosophy and Theology in Siena and Viterbo. After receiving his diploma at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome he studied from 1983 to 1986 at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (PIB ) Biblical Studies. His mentor in Rome was the Targumexperte Roger Le Deo.

1990 Giuseppe Veltri went to the Free University of Berlin, where he studied with Peter Schäfer, an internationally renowned expert Judaizers and Comparative Religion, and the historian of religion and theologians Carsten Colpe.

From 1990 to 1996 Giuseppe Veltri worked in the direction of Peter Schäfer and DFG-funded research projects Magical Texts from the Cairo Genizah and Greco- Roman religion in Palestine. His 1991 doctoral submitted deals with translation concepts in Jewish- Hellenistic and rabbinic contexts.

1996 Habilitation Giuseppe Veltri, also at the Free University Berlin with a thesis on the relationship of magic, law and science. The work is still quoted today as an important study.

In 1997 he was appointed to the Chair of Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg. Making a call in 2013 to the Chair of Jewish religion and philosophy at the University of Hamburg he supposed.

Teaching and research

In the 1990s and beyond, Giuseppe Veltri has done to deserve the establishment and expansion of Jewish Studies in the new federal states. Thanks to his efforts, the Jewish Studies in Germany established as an academic discipline and a recognized academic department with its own distinctive profile. Since his appointment as professor at the University of Halle, the resident seminar for Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies from a one- man company has developed into an efficient teaching and research institution. Today, the seminar includes about 15 academic staff who are involved in teaching and various research projects, as well as about ten PhD students.

In 1998, Giuseppe Veltri, the Leopold Zunz Center for the Study of European Jewry at the Foundation Leucorea the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg. He took over publishing the newsletter of the European Association for Jewish Studies ( EAJS newsletter) and developed from the scientific and peer-reviewed European Journal of Jewish Studies, which appears at Brill and is financially supported by the Rothschild Foundation. The journal is listed by Thomson Reuters indices as ISI journal. In addition Giuseppe Veltri founded 2001, also appearing at Brill scientific publication series Studies in Jewish Culture and History, published in the 25 volumes to date.

From 2004 to 2012 was Giuseppe Veltri elected member of the review board 106 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Since 2009 he has been Chairman of the Association of Judaizers in Germany.

Research

At Giuseppe Veltris research interests include: religion of ancient Judaism, medieval philosophy, culture and philosophy of the Renaissance and early modern period, as well as science of Judaism. He is the director of international research projects that deal with these issues and are funded by the German Research Foundation.

His doctoral thesis on Jewish- hellinistische and rabbinic translation concepts as well as his habilitation thesis on magic and Halacha are considered fundamental work for the study of ancient Judaism. The former was named by the renowned Israeli researchers Emanuel Tov as the standard work on the subject, the latter by Hans -Dieter Betz, an expert, highly praised in the study of magic. His research in these areas deepened and broadened Giuseppe Veltri through his research project Midrash Tehillim (Edition of rabbinic Auslegungsmidrasch on the Psalms ) and the project language concepts that explores the relationship between biblical and rabbinic concepts of language and terminology of medieval Jewish grammarians.

In cooperation with researchers from Israel, France and the Netherlands Giuseppe Veltri realized the long-term project Peshat ( " Philosophic and Scientific Hebrew Terminology "). The project aims at the systematic study of philosophical and scientific Hebrew terminology of the pre-modern period, their formation and development in the cultural and historical context. The result will be, inter alia, an extensive multilingual thesaurus, which is already accessible online via the homepage of the project. This database is understood as an upgrade and supplement its printed precursor of the Thesaurus linguae philosophicus hebraicae et veteris et recentioris of Jacob Klatzkin, published in five volumes from 1928 to 1933 in Berlin.

Much of his research focuses Giuseppe Veltri researching the philosophy of the Renaissance. From this emerged and go in addition to numerous conferences and symposia on the intellectual life of the Jews in the early modern period and the translations and editions of philosophical sermons Judah Moscatos, as well as the edition of the Simone Luzzattos writings.

By exploring the science of Judaism, the name of Leopold Zunz is closely linked. He was not only its founder but also a doctoral student in Halle. Giuseppe Veltri created the Zunz center and made the now located in Jerusalem Zunz Archives by cataloging and digitizing the entire collection of over 30,000 fols. to the public.

Visiting Professorships and Awards

Giuseppe Veltri has held visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin, University College London, the University of Bologna, La Sapienza University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In recognition of his services he was appointed Honorary Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Leipzig in 2010. In November of the same year, he was the Head of the Department of Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies at the University Hall the right conferred by the Jewish community hall Emil Fackenheim - prize for tolerance and understanding. For the first time the prize was thus at an academic institution. In 2014 he was elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.

Publications (selection )

• Language of Conformity and Dissent: On the Imaginative Grammar of Jewish Intellectuals in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Academic Studies Press, 2013), ISBN 978-1-61811-238-5.
• Scritti politici e filosofici di Simone Luzzatto, Rabbino e Filosofo nella Venezia del Seicento, in collaboration with Paola Ferruta and Anna Lissa ( Milan: Bompiani, 2013). ISBN 978-88-452-7295-0.
• Judah Moscato 's Sermons. Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, together with Gianfranco Miletto and Yehuda Halper (Leiden: Brill 2011-2013), ISBN 978-90-04-17900-4, ISBN 978-90-04-21932-8, and ISBN 978 -90-04-26119-8.
• Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th - 17th Centuries, along with Gianfranco Miletto (Leiden: Brill 2012), ISBN 978-90-04-22225-0.
• Language awareness and concepts in the ancient Near East, Old Testament and Rabbinic Judaism, together with Johannes Thon and Ernst -Joachim Waschke (Hall: ZIRS 2012), ISSN 1617-2469.
• Studies in the History of Culture and Science. A Tribute to Gad Freudenthal, along with Resianne Fontaine, Ruth Glasner, Reimund and Easy ( Boston, Leiden: Brill 2011), ISBN 978-90-04-19123-5.
• Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb: Jewish Thought and Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity (Leiden: Brill 2009), ISBN 978-90-04-17196-1.
• The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, together with Mary Diemling (Leiden: Brill 2009), ISBN 978-90-04-16718-6
• Libraries, Translations, and ' Canonic ' Texts: The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions (Leiden: Brill 2006), ISBN 90-04-14993-7
• Catholicism and Judaism. Similarities and distortions from the 16th to the 20th century, together with Florian Schuller and Hubert Wolf ( Regensburg: Pustet 2005), ISBN 3-7917-1955-6.
• God language in the philological workshop. Hebrew Studies from the 15th to the 19th century, together with Gerold Necker (Leiden: Brill 2004), ISBN 90-04-14312-2.
• Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy, along with David Ruderman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. ), ISBN 0 - 8122-3779 -X.
• Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines: Papers in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, along with Klaus Herrmann, Margarete Schlüter (Leiden: Brill 2003), ISBN 90-04-13565-0.
• At the threshold of modernity. Jews in the Renaissance, along with Annette Winkelmann (Leiden: Brill 2003), ISBN 90-04-12979-0.
• Presence of the tradition. Studies on Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Leiden: Brill, 2002 ), ISBN 90-04-11686-9.
• Friedrich August Wolf. Studies, texts, bibliography, together with Reinhard Markner (Stuttgart: Steiner 1999), ISBN 3-515-07637-9.
• Magic and Halakha. Approaches to an empirical understanding of science in the late antique and early medieval Judaism (Tübingen: Mohr 1997), ISBN 3-16-146671-3.
• A Torah for the King Talmai. Studies on the translation understanding in the Judeo- Hellenistic and rabbinic literature (Tübingen: Mohr, 1994), ISBN 3-16-145998-9.