Philippe Cassuto

Philippe Cassuto
Born1 November 1959
Rhône, France
Died2 March 2020
Paris, France
Academic background
Alma materJean Moulin University Lyon 3
ThesisLa place de l'hébreu dans le Tractatus theologico-politicus et le Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae de baruch de Spinoza
Academic work
DisciplineHebraic and Semitic studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Aix-Marseille
Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman

Philippe Cassuto (1959 – 2020) was a French professor of Hebraic and Semitic Studies at the University of Aix-Marseille and a researcher at the Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman.[1][2] His scientific career and the publication of many books and works led him to be recognized before his death as one of the greatest international specialists in Hebrew massorah and grammar.[3]

Life

Education

From 1991 Cassuto holds a PhD from the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 with the dissertation La place de l'hébreu dans le Tractatus theologico-politicus et le Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae de baruch de Spinoza, under the tutelage of Pierre Cariou.[4][5] In 2005 Cassuto earned his Habilitation to Supervise Research.[3]

Teaching

In 1992, Cassuto was appointed lecturer in Hebrew and Semitic languages and literature at the University of Aix-Marseille I.[6] In 2003 he become deputy Director at the Center for Continuing Education of the Université de Provence-Aix-Marseille I,[1] qualified to direct research in 2005, and full professor in 2008.

Bibliography

Thesis

  • Cassuto, Philippe (1991). La place de l'hébreu dans le Tractatus Theologico-Politicus et le Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae de Baruch de Spinoza (PhD diss. Jean Moulin University Lyon 3) (in French). OCLC 872601326.

Books

  • Cassuto, Philippe (1999). Spinoza hébraïsant: L'hébreu dans le Tractatus theologico-politicus et le Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae. Collection de la Revue des études juives, ISSN 0777-785X. Peeters. ISBN 9789042907959.
  • —————— (2017-01-01). "Switching of Labials in Biblical Hebrew". In Sartori, Manuel; Giolfo, Manuela E.B.; Cassuto, Philippe (eds.). Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher. ISBN 9789004325883.

Articles

References

  1. ^ a b IREMAM.
  2. ^ Mion 2020, pp. 275.
  3. ^ a b Lombardi 2023.
  4. ^ Cassuto 1991.
  5. ^ Theses.fr.
  6. ^ Busa 2024, p. 159.

Sources

Book reviews

  • Borel, Jean (1998). "Review of Spinoza et les Commentateurs juifs (Publication de l'Université de Provence), by P. Cassuto". Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie. 130 (4): 442–443. JSTOR 44358613.
  • Dichy, Joseph (2003). "Review of La Sémitologie, aujourd'hui, by P. Cassuto & P. Larcher". Arabica. 50 (2): 252–258. JSTOR 4057677.
  • Ghersetti, Antonella (2008). "Review of La formation des mots dans les langues sémitiques (Langues et Languages, 15), by P. Cassuto & P. Larcher". Quaderni Di Studi Arabi. 3: 254–255. JSTOR 25803071.
  • Hasselbach, Rebecca (2010). "Review of La formation des mots dans les langues sémitiques, by Philippe Cassuto/Pierre Larcher". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 160 (1): 165–168. JSTOR 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.160.1.0165.
  • Owens, Jonathan (2008). "Review of La formation des mots dans les langues sémitiques, by P. Cassuto & P. Larcher". Arabica. 55 (2): 332–335. doi:10.1163/157005808X310714. JSTOR 25162287.