Emma Abate

Doctor of EPHE (IVth section, Sorbonne, Paris) and associate researcher at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Studies

  • 2006 - 2010: PhD degree at the EPHE (IVth section, Sorbonne, Paris) and at the SAS (“Fondazione Collegio San Carlo”, Modena). Advisors: Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Prof. Alessandro Catastini. Thesis title : « Manuscrits de la Genizah à la bibliothèque de l’Alliance Israélite Universelle : un regard sur la magie hébraïque ».
  • 2002 - 2005: PhD degree at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Advisors Prof. Alessandro Catastini and Prof. Pier Giorgio Borbone. Thesis title: “La fine del regno di Sedecia in 2Re e in Geremia”.
  • 2002: Italian degree (approximately BA+MA) in Hebrew Literature, at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Conferences

  • 6th–9th July 2009. Tenth EAJS Summer Colloquium. Manuscripts and History in the Jewish Middle Ages, Wolfson College, Oxford (UK). Lecture title: “Studies on Hebrew Amulets from the Alliance Israelite Universelle’s Geniza Collection”.
  • 14th–16th September 2009. XXIII Convegno Internazionale AISG, Ravenna (Italy). Lecture title : “Testi magici della biblioteca dell’Alliance Israelite Universelle di Parigi”.
  • 16th November 2009. Journée d’études doctorale et post-doctorale de l’EPHE et de la Société des Etudes Juives (Paris, France). Lecture title : « Pages manquantes : une étude sur les fragments magiques de la Guéniza conservés dans la bibliothèque de l’Alliance Israélites Universelle ».

Publications

Articles

  • “Sedecia e l’assedio di Gerusalemme: funzioni mitiche e rituali in un racconto biblico”, Rivista degli Studi Orientali. 77 (2003).[2005], pp. 9-22.
  • “I frammenti manoscritti del Sefer Mitzwot Gadol di Mosheh ben Ya‘aqov da Coucy posseduti dalla Biblioteca Angelica di Roma”, Sefarad 69 (2009), pp. 477-489.

Books

  • I libri ebraici della Biblioteca Angelica I. Incunaboli e cinquecentine (eds. E. Abate, S. De Gese), Rome 2005.
  • La fine del regno di Sedecia in 2Re e in Geremia, Textos y Estudios “Cardenal Cisneros” de la Biblia Poliglota Matriense, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid 2008.

 

News

EAJS ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM: Books within Books - New Discoveries in Old Book Bindings

Thursday May 19, 2011

Program 
Wolfson College, Oxford - 18th - 20th July 2011

EAJS ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM: Books within Books - New Discoveries in Old Book Bindings

Thursday March 17, 2011

Wolfson College, Oxford 18th - 20th July 2011

2de Journée d'Etude EPHE - IVe section

Friday October 22, 2010

Organisée par l'Ecole Doctorale de l'EPHE et la Fondazione San Carlo da Modena
THÈME 2010 : LES MANUSCRITS HEBREUX ET L’ITALIE
Salle Vasari, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris

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