Piero Capelli (born in Bologna, 1964) studied classical languages and literatures, ancient Oriental studies and Jewish studies in the University of Pisa (degree in Classics, 1987), in the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (diploma in Humanities, 1987; postgraduate course in Humanities, 1987-1990; fellowship of the Fondazione Giorgio Pasquali, 1994-1995) and in the Universities of Turin (Ph.D. in Jewish Studies, 1995; postdoctoral fellowship, 1995-1997) and Vienna (grants of the Bundesministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung of the Federal Republic of Austria, 1993 and 1995).
He taught biblical and rabbinic Hebrew as contract lecturer in the Istituto di Scienze Religiose of Trent (1998-1999) and in the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples (1999). Since 2000 he has been contract lecturer, then assistant professor and associate professor of Hebrew language and literature at Ca' Foscari. During Trinity Term 2005 he was Visiting Scholar in the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
His research interests are focused on the history of texts and ideas in late ancient Judaism, especially in Hebrew and Aramaic rabbinical literature and in the Greek pseudepigrapha. At present he is attending to the first critical edition of the Hebrew account of the first public trial held against the Talmud in Paris in 1240. At Ca' Foscari he is director of the MA program in Cultures, Institutions and Languages of Eurasia and the Mediterranean (CILEM) and is a member of the teaching board of the Ph.D. program in Oriental Studies. He is a member of the scientific board of Biblia (laical association for biblical culture), of the directive board of the AISG (Italian Association for Jewish Studies), and of the Italian editorial board of Henoch (international journal of studies on Judaism and Christian origins).
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