Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries

Giuseppe Veltri, is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Zunz Centre (Halle). He has published widely in the subjects of hermeneutics and philosophy including "Gegenwart der Tradition" (2002), "Cultural Intermediaries" (2004 with D. Ruderman); "Libraries, Translation and 'Canonic texts'" (2006); "The Jewish Body" (2008, with M. Diemling); "Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb" (2009); "Judah Moscato s Sermons" (2011). Gianfranco Miletto is university private lecturer ( Privatdozent ) at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. He has published on Biblical Philology and on the Jewish culture in Italy at the time of the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation: "L Antico Testamento Ebraico nella tradizione babilonese" (1992); "Die Heldenschilde des Abraham ben David Portaleone," 2 vols. (2003); "Glauben und Wissen im Zeitalter der Reformation" (2004); "Judah Moscato s Sermons" (2011).