PD Dr. Gianfranco Miletto

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: i frammenti della Genizah, (Silvio Zamorani Editore, Torino 1992); Die Heldenschilde des Abraham ben David Portaleone, 2 vols. (Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 2003); Glauben und Wissen im Zeitalter der Reformation: Der salomonische Tempel bei Abraham ben David Portaleone (1542-1612), (Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004). Currently he works in Heidelberg at the „Abraham Berliner Center“ of the „Hochschule für Jüdische Studien“ for a research on the Biblical manuscripts with Babylonian vocalization.