Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987), scholar
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Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) was a Jewish-Italian scholar, who moved to Great Britain in 1938.
Biography
A specialist in Hellenistic Judaism and Professor at the University of Turin, moved to England in 1938, following the introduction of the Racial Laws in Italy, to teach at Oxford University and University College, London.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Prime linee di storia della tradizione maccabaica (1931)
- Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Hellenization (Cambridge 1975)
- Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography (Oxford 1977)
- On Pagans, Jews, and Christians (Middletown Conn. 1987)
Biblography
- Arnaldo Momigliano e la sua opera, Rivista Storica Italiana 100.2 (1988)