Knowledge Theories

I’ve published several studies looking at the history of allegorical interpretation in the early modern era. My particular interest is in the influence of Jewish, Arab and Christian philosophy on the reading of the Bible in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Selected publications:

Pico’s Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics, Leiden: Brill, 2006

“From Kabbalah to Psychology: The Allegorizing Isagoge of Paulus Ricius, 1509–41”, Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft 2.2 (2007)

“Eucherius of Lyon, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Sixtus Of Siena: Early Christian Exegesis and Kabbalah in the Bibliotheca Sancta (1566)”, in Giovanni Pico e la cabbalà, ed. F. Lelli, Florence: Olschki, 2014