Alfredo Mordechai Rabello (b.1940), scholar

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Alfredo Mordechai Rabello (b.1940) is an Italian-Israeli scholar.

Biography

Alfredo Mordechai Rabello was born at Bologna, Italy on August 12, 1940. During the Nazi occupation of Italy (1943-1945), his family took refuge in Switzerland and went back to Italy at the end of the war. In 1964 Rabello became Dottore in giurisprudenza at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 1965 he emigrated to Israel. In 1972 he became Doctor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the same year he became Lecturer of Roman Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1979 he became Professor at the Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2003 he was honored as "Professor Emeritus" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Rabello was visiting Professor at Harvard University, Annenberg Research Institute at Philadelphia, and at the Mc Gill Law School, Montreal. Professor Rabello is member of L'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto, Bologna, Societé Internationale des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIDA), International Academy of Comparative Law, Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana, Perugia.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Rabello has written extensively on the position of the Jews in Roman Law, as well as on Jewish Law.

Books

Articles in edited volumes

  • The Legal Condition of the Jews in the Roman Empire", / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / ANRW 2/13, Berlin (Temporini 1980), edited volume
  • Les Effets personnelles de la puissance paternelle en droit hébraique à travers la Bible et le Talmud, / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Melanges Prévost, Paris (1982) edited volume
  • Il problema della 'Circumcisio' in Diritto Romano fino ad Antonino Pio, / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Studi in onore di Arnaldo Biscardi II, Milano (1982) edited volume
  • Divorce in Josephus, / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Josephus Flavius Historian of Eretz- Israel in the Hellenistic-Roman Period, Jerusalem, (1982) edited volume
  • The Edicts on Circumcision as a Factor in the Bar – Kokhva Revolt”, / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / The Bar-Kokhva Revolt: A New Approach, Jerusalem (Oppenheimer and Rappaport 1984) edited volume
  • L'observance des fêtes juives dans l'Empire Romain, ANRW, / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / ANRW 2/13, Berlin (Temporini 1984), edited volume
  • Civil Justice in Palestine from 63 BCE to 70 CE", / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Classical Studies in Honor of David Sohlberg, Ramat Gan (Katzoff, Petroff , Shaps 1996), edited volume
  • Jewish and Roman Jurisdiction, / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law, Oxford, (1996), edited volume
  • The attitude of Rome towards Conversions to Judaism / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Atheism, Circumcision, Proselytism, Towards a new European Ius Commune, Jerusalem, (1999), edited volume
  • E Gesù venne in Gerusalemme ed entrò nel Tempio (Marc.11,11); aspetto socio-politico di Gerusalemme e funzione istituzionale del Tempio / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Il processo contro Gesù, Napoli, (Amarelli and Lucrezi 1999), edited volume
  • La situazione giuridica degli ebrei nell’impero romano / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Gli ebrei nell’impero romano, Saggi vari, Firenze, (Lewin 2001), edited volume
  • Il diritto e le feste degli ebrei / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Gli ebrei nell’impero romano, Saggi vari, Firenze, (Lewin 2001), edited volume
  • L’atteggiamento di Roma verso le conversioni all’Ebraismo / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / La condition des “autres” dans les systèmes juridiques de la Méditerranée, Paris (Castro and Catalano 2004), edited volume
  • La Gerusalemme che vide Gesù / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Il processo a Gesù e il giudice C.Cohn, Parma, (2004), edited volume
  • Assetto socio-politico di Gerusalemme e funzione istituzionale del Tempio / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Atti del XXV Colloquio ebraico-cristiano, Gerusalemme/Camaldoli (Gargano 2004), edited volume

Articles in academic journals

  • The “Lex de Templo Hierosolymitano”, Prohibiting Gentiles from Entering Jerusalem’s Sanctuary / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Christian News from Israel 21,3, (1970)
  • The `Lex de Templo Hierosolymitano' prohibiting gentiles from entering Jerusalem's Sanctuary / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Sinai 70, (1972)
  • On the paternal power in Roman and Jewish Law / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Dine Israel 5, (1974)
  • Herod’s Domestic Court? The Judgement of Death for Herod’s Sons / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Jewish Law Annual 10, (1992)
  • The Edicts on Circumcision as a Cause in the Bar – Kokhba Revolt / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Israel Law Review 29, (1995)
  • La giurisdizione civile nella Iudea romana fra il 63 a.E.V. ed il 70 E.V. / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Zakhor 2, (1998)
  • Il Divorzio degli Ebrei nell’Impero Romano / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello / Zakhor 3, (1999)

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