University / institution contact details
Position: Lecturer/Professor
Università degli Studi di CATANIA
Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche
University of Catania
Dept. of Humanities
Piazza Dante 32 - 95124 CATANIA
Italia - Italy
http://www.disum.unict.it/docenti/marco.moriggi
Second university / institution contact details
Position: Honorary Senior Research Fellow
University of Exeter
College of Humanities
Theology and Religion
https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/theology/staff/moriggi/
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
1. Bible and Related Literature: T
3: Bible versions: T
4: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: T
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Ancient Near East: TR
Second Temple period: TR
Late Antiquity: TR
Archaeology: TR
Epigraphy: TR
Palaeography: TR
Biographical Studies: TR
3. Religion and Religious Movements: R
31: Comparative Religion: R
32: Liturgy and prayer: R
5. Rabbinic Literature: R
38: Early (including Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash): R
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): R
42: Ancient (including Hellenistic): R
43: Medieval (including scientific, poetry, Genizah studies): R
7. Languages: TR
Ancient Near Eastern Languages: TR
Hebrew: TR
52: Greek: R
Aramaic: TR
54: Arabic, including Judeo-Arabic: R
59: Judeo-Italian: R
9. Contemporary Studies: R
67: Anthropology, Ethnography and Folklore: R
69: Anti-Semitism: R
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: R
77: Scholarship, history of: R
11. Digital Humanities: TR
Digital humanities: TR
Description
Marco Moriggi, Ph.D. (2003) Semitic Linguistics (Florence), is Associate Professor in Semitic Philology at the University of Catania. He has published on various Aramaic varieties, including Syriac. His latest titles include: Aramaic Graffiti from Hatra. A Study based on the Archive of the Missione Archeologica Italiana (with Ilaria Bucci, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019), “‘And the impure and abominable priests fled for help to the names of the devils.’ Amulets and magical practices in Syriac Christian culture between Late Antiquity and the modern world,” Hugoye 19/2 (2016): 371-384.
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