David Castelli (December 30, 1836,
Leghorn,
Tuscany
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– 1901,
Florence
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) 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.
Biography
David Castelli was born in
Livorno, a city which in the 19th century, under the guidance of
Rabbi Elia Benamozegh, became the seat of one of the liveliest
Italian Jewish communities of the time. Of Castelli's numerous works and essays the following may be mentioned. Initiated by his father to the rabbinical profession, Castelli was self-taught for his higher education until from 1857 to 1863 he was a teacher of
Hebrew language
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and literature in the schools of the city.
* ''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
* ''Il Cantico dei Cantici, Studio Esegetico, Traduzione e Note'', Florence, 1892
* ''Ammaestramenti del Vecchio e del Nuovo Testamento, Raccolti e Tradotti'', Florence, 1896
* ''Il Poema Semitico del Pessimismo (Il Libro di Job), Tradotto e Commentato'', Florence, 1897
* ''Gli Ebrei, Sunto di Storia Politica e Letteraria'', Florence, 1899
References
* Facchini, C., ''David Castelli. Ebraismo e scienze delle religioni tra Otto e Novecento'', Brescia: Morcelliana, 2005
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Brief biographical information
1836 births
1901 deaths
19th-century Italian educators
19th-century Jewish biblical scholars
Italian biblical scholars
Jewish educators
19th-century Italian Jews
Livornese Jews
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