David Castelli

Deceased Person

1836 – 1901

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Who was David Castelli?

David Castelli was an Italian scholar and educator in the field of secular Jewish studies. He was educated at the rabbinical college of Leghorn, and from 1857 to 1863 was teacher of Hebrew and Italian in the Jewish schools of that city. Then he became secretary of the Jewish congregation in Pisa, where at the same time he was a private teacher. From January 1876 until his death he occupied the chair of Hebrew at the Istituto di Studi Superiori Pratici e di Perfezionamento in Florence.

Of Castelli's numerous works and essays the following may be mentioned:

L'Ecclesiaste, Traduzione e Studio Critico, Pisa, 1866

Leggende Talmudiche, Traduzione con Prefazione Critica, Pisa, 1869

Il Messia Secondo gli Ebrei Florence, 1874

Il Diritto di Testare nella Legislazione Ebraica, Florence, 1878

Della Poesia Biblica, Florence, 1878

"Il Commento di Sabbatai Donnolo al Libro della Creazione, Testo Ebraico con Note Critiche e Introduzione in Ebraico e in Italiano", Florence, 1880, in Pubblicazioni del Regio Istituto di Studi Superiori

La Profezia nella Biblia, Florence, 1882

La Legge del Popolo Ebreo nel suo Storico Svolgimento, Florence, 1884

Storia degli Israeliti Secondo le Fonti Bibliche Criticamente Esposte, 2 vols., Milan, 1887–88

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Born
Dec 30, 1836
Died
1901

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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