PD Dr. Francesco Zanella

• Rabbinic Judaism

- Working out lines of development of ancient and late antique Jewish thought on a philological basis.

- Research into the Tannaitic sources.
- Social and cultural history of rabbinic Judaism.

- Concepts of the soul in rabbinic Judaism

• Qumran writings

- “sectarian” and “non-sectarian” texts

- Qumranic halakha.

• Hebrew lexicography

-Semantic development of the Hebrew language, with special focus on Late Biblical Hebrew, Qumran Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew