Monografie
Jesus in the Latin Talmud. Judaism and Christianity During the Disputation of Paris in 1240, Leiden, Brill, 2024;
Judaism, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis in Heidegger’s Ontology Harrowing the Heath, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2023;
Cábala y Traducción. Un ensayo sobre Paul Celan, Barcelona, Libros del Tábano, 2023, 228 pp.;
The Lexical Field of the Substantives of “Word,’ Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2021, 278 pp.;
La via ebraica alla meditazione, Milano, Corriere della Sera, 2021, 157 pp.;
Il linguaggio della violenza. Estremismo e ideologia nella filosofia contemporanea, Bologna, Biblioteca Clueb, 2020, 160 pp.;
Deconstructing the Talmud. The Absolute Book, London-New York, Routledge, 2019, 242 pp.;
Qabbalah e traduzione. Un saggio su Paul Celan, Salerno, Orthotes, 2019, 179 pp.;
Emanation and Philosophy of Language in Yoseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, Jerusalem, Cherub Press 2019, lxx + 452 pp.;
Massekhet Keritot. Text, Translation and Commentary (A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud), Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2013, 487 pp.;
La lingua malata. Linguaggio e violenza nella filosofia contemporanea, Bologna, Clueb, 2008, 140 pp.;
La Legge e il volto di Dio. La rivelazione sul Sinai nella letteratura ebraica e cristiana, Firenze, La Giuntina, 2004, 103 pp.;
Società e discorso. L’etica della comunicazione in K.O. Apel e J. Derrida, Milano, Mimesis, 2002, 218 pp.
Curatele
(con N. Polloni and M. Benedetto), Salomon Ibn Gabirol. Sources, Doctrines, and Influence on Medieval Philosophy, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023, 412 pp.;
(con A. Castore), Untying the Mother Tongue, Berlin, ICI Press, 2023, 252 pp.;
«Chi dite che io sia?» Gesù nel suo e nel nostro tempo, Ferrara, Gallio Editori, 2007, 272 pp;
Articoli e capitoli
“Ibn Gabirol between Philosophy and Kabbalah. A Comprehensive Insight into the Jewish Reception of Ibn Gabirol in Medieval and Modern Jewish Scholarship,” in N. Polloni, M. Benedetto and F. Dal Bo (eds), Salomon Ibn Gabirol. Sources, Doctrines, and Influence on Medieval Philosophy, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023, pp. 359-381;
“The Sephardic Task of the Translator. Ibn Falaquera’s Paraphrastic Hebrew Translation of Ibn Gabirol’s Fons Vitae,” in N. Polloni, M. Benedetto and F. Dal Bo (eds), Salomon Ibn Gabirol. Sources, Doctrines, and Influence on Medieval Philosophy, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023, pp. 27- 48;
“My Mother Tongue Is a Foreign Language’: On Edmond Jabès’s Writing in Exile,” in A. Castore – F. Dal Bo (eds), Untying the Mother Tongue, Berlin, ICI Press, 2023, pp. 45-84;
“Cinque trattati qabbalistici. Un’indagine preliminare di alcuni testi provenienti dalla Collezione Antonelli della Biblioteca Ariostea di Ferrara,” in Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni, 88, 2 (2022), pp. 533-588;
“‘The Exile from the Law.’ Keeping and Transgressing the Limits in Jewish Law,” in Christoph F. E. Holzhey – Arnd Wedemeyer (eds), Errans: Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing, Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, ICI Berlin Press, 2022, pp. 201–31;
“‘Smarrirsi in alto.’ Su linguaggio e profezia. Appunti a margine di alcuni scritti di Maurizio Malaguti,” in A. Baggio – C. Calvani – A. Migliari – N. Rubbi (eds.), Vivere in Filosofia. Scritti in ricordo di Maurizio Malaguti, Roma, Tab Editrice, 2022, pp. 103-114;
“‘If you will judge me to have merit.’ Isaac Aboab da Fonseca’s Preface to his Hebrew Translation of Abraham Cohen De Herrera’s Puerta del Cielo,” in S. Brentjes (ed.), Narratives on Translation across Eurasia and Africa. From Babylonia to Colonial India, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022, pp. 249-259;
“Paul’s Definition of ‘Circumcision of the Heart.’ A Transcultural Reading of Romans 2:28-29,” in J. Zurawski (ed.), Torah: Functions, Meanings, and Diverse Manifestations in Early Judaism and Christianity, Atlanta, SBL, 2022, pp. 397-410;
“Mysticism and Political Extremism in Henry Bean’s Script The Believer (2001),” in C. Bartlett and J. Schlör (eds), The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 117–132;
“Giqatilla’s Philosophical Poems on the Hebrew Vowels: Poetry, Philosophy, and Theology in Giqatilla’s Ginnat Egoz and Sefer ha-Niqqud,” in Religions, 12, 554 (2021), pp. 1-20;
“A Foetus Shaped like a Sandal. Birth Anomalies in Talmudic Tractate Niddah,” in L. Lehmhaus (ed), Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2021, pp. 93-118;
"The Evolution of Rabbi Mordekhay ben Yehudah Dato’s Messianism: from his Early Sabbatical Hymn Vieni ò sposa to his Later Vernacular Texts,” in Journal of Jewish Studies, LXXI, 1 (2020), pp. 93-120;
“La Mística de los Palacios Divinos en Siglo XIII. Los Heikhalot Bereshit y Heikhalot Pekudei en el Zóhar,” in H.S. Fermin (ed), Kabbala Judía y Mística Carmelitana. Encuentros en Sefarad, Avila, Grupo Editorial Forte & CITeS – Universidad de la Mistica, 2020, pp. 169-193;
“Sexualities and Il/licit Relationships in Late Ancient Jewish Literatures,” in G. Kessler – N. Koltun-Fromm (eds), A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: 3rd Century BCE - 7th Century CE, Hoboken, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020, pp. 307-321;
“Hebrew as ‘Remedy’ to the Shoah in Dan Pagis’ Poetry,” in B. Hofmann – U. Reuter (eds), Translated Memories. Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust, Lanham, Lexington, 2020, pp. 165-182;
“‘L’immediata intensità messianica del cuore.’ Paolinismo nel Frammento teologico-politico di Walter Benjamin,” in T. Tagliacozzo – G. Guerra (eds.), Felicità e tramonto. Sul Frammento teologico-politico di Walter Benjamin, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2020, pp. 139-152;
“Textualizing, De-Textualizing, and Re-Textualizing the Talmud. The Dimension of Text in the Extractiones de Talmud,” in A. Fidora – G.K. Hasselhoff (eds.), The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages, Bellaterra, Servei de Publicacions de la UAB, 2019, pp. 101-124;
“Nihilism and Extremist Religious Education in Contemporary Israel. The King's Torah and its Discontents,” in S. Kunze – F. Jacob (Eds.), Jewish Radicalisms. Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 241-267;
“Testifying, Writing, and Putting God in the Dock. Elie Wiesel’s Novels and the Crisis of Traditional Theodicy,” in V. Nesfield – Ph. Smith (Eds), The Novels of Elie Wiesel, New York: SUNY, 2019, pp. 169-193;
“Jesus’ Trial In The Latin Talmud. Tractate Sanhedrin and its Translation in the Extractiones de Talmud,” in Henoch, 41, 1 (2019), pp. 140-176;
“Jesus’ Punishment in Hell in the Latin Translation of the Babylonian Talmud. A Passage from Tractate Gittin in the Extractiones de Talmud,” in Henoch, 40, 1 (2018), pp. 165-195;
[con A. Fidora] “‘Inicium Creationis Iesu Nazareni.’ Toledot Yeshu in the Thematic Version of the Extractiones de Talmud,” in Henoch, 40, 1 (2018) pp. 206-222;
“Hebrew and Aramaic Terms in the ‘Extractiones de Talmud.’ Some Remarks on a Thirteenth- Century Latin Translation of the Talmud,” in Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies 5, 2 (2018), pp. 241-260;
“Economic speculation and the sacred,” “Market prices,” “Market intervention and the common good,” and “Market intervention and the common good,” in M. Satlow (Ed.), Judaism and the Economy. A Sourcebook, London, Routledge, 2018, pp. 46-47, 48, 53-54, 69-70;
“‘Women Are Like Cattle.’ Some Remarks on Early Jewish Judicial Vocabulary on Women and Nature, in S.L.Budin – M. Cifarelli – A. Garcia-Ventura – A. Millet Albà (Eds), Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the Second Workshop held at the Universitat de Barcelona, February 1-3, 2017, Barcelona, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2018, pp. 23-34;
“Appendix Glossarum. A Preliminary Edition of the Glosses Contained in the Extractiones de Talmud,” in U. Cecini–Ó. de la Cruz Palma, Extractiones de Talmud per Ordinem Sequentialem, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018, pp. 597-710;
“‘So then, the Law is Holy, and the Commandment is Holy, Righteous and Good.’ Augustine’s Ambiguities on the Jewish Law,” in S.K. Danielson –F. Jacob (Eds), Intellectual Anti- Semitism, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2018, pp. 21-40;
“A Contemporary Midrash: Saramago’s Re-Telling of the ‘Sacrifice of Isaac’”, in C. Salzani – K. Vanhoutte (Eds), Saramago’s Philosophical Heritage, Basingstoke, Palgrave McMillan, 2018, pp. 121-142;
“Talmudic Angelology and the Tosafists: On Metatron in the Latin Translation of Tractates Sanhedrin and Avodah Zarah,” in Jewish Studies Quarterly 25 (2018) pp. 42-61;
“‘A Sage Understands of His Knowledge’ (mHag 2:1). Degrees and Hierarchy of Knowledge in Abraham Abulafia,” in Mediaevalia. Textos e estudos, 36 (2017) (= online release February 2019) pp. 63-75;
“Emmanuel Levinas' Messianism and the World to Come. A Gnostic-Philosophical Reading of Tractate Sanhedrin 96b-99a,” in L.J. Greenspoon, Olam ha-Ze v'Olam ha-Ba. This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practise, Lafayette (Indiana), Purdue University Press, 2017, pp. 197-213;
“A Priest’s ‘Uncircumcised Heart.’ Some Theological-Political Remarks on a Rashi’s Gloss in tractate Sanhedrin and its Latin translation in Extractiones de Talmud,” in U.Cecini – E. Vernet i Pons (Eds), Studies on the Latin Talmud, Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017, pp. 129-144;
“Legal and Transgressive Sex, Heresy, and Hermeneutics in the Talmud: The Cases of Bruriah, Rabbi Meir, Elisha ben Abuya and the Prostitute,” in E. Ancselovits – G. Wilkes (eds.), Jewish Law and Academic Discipline. Contributions from Europe, Liverpool, Deborah Charles, 2016, pp. 128-151;
“Between the ‘City of Man’ and the ‘City of God.’ Levinas on the Biblical Institution of the “Cities of Refuge” in Talmudic literature (bMakk 9b-10a),” in HannahArendt.net – Zeitschrift für Politisches Denken/ Journal for Political Thinking, 1, 8 – April 2016, pp. 74-92;
“Die ‘Opferung Isaaks’ zwischen jüdischem Midrasch und der Poetik des Aristoteles nach ihrer griechischen, syrischen, arabischen und hebräischen Überlieferung,” in M. Menicacci (ed.), Das Tragische: Dichten und Denken. Literarische Modellierungen eines ‚pensiero tragico,‘ Heidelberg, Winter Verlag, 2016, pp. 39-55;
“Textualism and Scepticism: Post-modern Philosophy and the Theology of Text,” in Melilah: Atheism, Scepticism and Challenges to Monotheism, vol. 12, 2015, pp. 84-96;
“The Theological and Cultural Challenge of ‘Messianic Jews.’ Towards a New Jewish Paradigm?,” in Pardes, Issue 21 (2015): Jesus in the Jewish Culture of the 19th and 20th century / Issue 20 (2015): Die Figur Jesu in der Jüdischen Kultur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, pp. 33-58;
“Dan Pagis e il Meridiano della Memoria,” in Dan Pagis, Papà, Firenze, La Giuntina, 2014, pp. 53- 75;
“Du solltest dich verfolgen lassen. Eine theologisch-politische Auslegung vom Talmudischen Traktat Baba Kamma 93,” in Täter und Opfer. Verbrechen und Stigma im europäisch- jüdischen Kontetxt, Würzburg, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2014, pp. 69-95;
The entry “Leom” in Theologische Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten / Theological Dictionary of the Qumran manuscripts, (ThWQ), Vol. 2, Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 2013, p. 466;
“A Reading of the ‘Epistle to the Romans’ in Mithridates’ Latin translation of Giqatilla’s ‘Gates of Justice’ for Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” in M. Perani – G. Corazzol (Eds.), Flavio Mitridate mediatore fra culture nel contesto dell’ebraismo siciliano del XV secolo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale. Caltabellotta, 30 luglio-1 agosto 2008, Palermo, Officina di Studi Medievali, 2012, pp. 137-147.
The entry “Bamah”, in: Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten / Theological Dictionary of the Qumran manuscripts, (ThWQ), Vol. I, Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 2011, pp. 460-462;
The entry “Hutz”, ibidem, pp. 916-917;
The entry “Hoq”, ibidem, pp. 918-923;
“The Theory of ‘Emanation’ in Gikatilla's ‘Gates of Justice,’” in Journal of Jewish Studies, 62, 1, 2011, pp. 79-104;
“Traduzione come mediazione linguistica: Celan traduttore di Ungaretti tra italiano e francese, in Italian Poetry Review, Columbia University, 3, 2008, pp. 476-493;
“Il poeta traduttore. Paul Celan e Ingeborg Bachmann si confrontano con Ungaretti” in Comunicare, 2006, pp. 197-219;
“Traduzione come poesia: Bachmann e Celan interpreti di Ungaretti, in Traduzione e poesia, edited by A. Dolfi, Roma, Bulzoni, 2004, pp. 743-763;
“Tra la sabbia e le stelle: Scholem e la traduzione di Zohar 22a-26b,” in Materia Giudaica, VIII, 2, 2004, pp. 297-309;
“La testimonianza della pace. Derrida lettore di Celan,” Filosofia e pace, edited by I. Malaguti, Rimini, Fara, 2000, pp. 224-239;
“Ebraismo e filosofia. Levinas e la comunità occidentale,” in La comunità, la sua legge, la sua giustizia, edited by R. Panattoni, Padova, Il Poligrafo, 2000, pp. 117-127;
“Lo spazio della memoria nelle Confessioni di Agostino” in Studia Patavina, 47, I (2000) pp. 149-166;
“L’utopia dell’angelo. Note a L’angelo necessario di M. Cacciari,” in Arcipelago, 5, 2000, pp. 114-121;
“Filosofia del linguaggio e morale della comunicazione in K.O. Apel,” in Segni e comprensione, XIV, n. 39-40, 2000, pp. 76-110;
“La teoria della nevrosi in Freud e il movimento della metafora,” Rivista di psicologia, 1, 1999, pp. 55-78;
Postfazione al testo di G. Hottois, Il segno e la tecnica, Ferrara, Gallio Editori, 1999, pp. 224-257;
“Il medico e la filosofia. Un commento a L’interesse per la psicoanalisi di Freud,” in Rivista di psicologia 3, 1996, pp. 81-101;
“Il teatro del sapere: un’interpretazione della Repubblica platonica,” in Philo:logica, V, 9, March 1996, pp. 91-104;