The Anatomy of the Sacred: Divine Anthropomorphism from Shiʿur Qomah to Christian Kabbalah
Delia is currently a PhD student at La Sapienza, University of Rome. Her project aims to delineate the figure of Solomon within the work of Yoḥanan ben Yiṣhaq Alemanno. To this end, she is preparing a critical edition, with a translation and a study on the sources and reception of his work Ḥesheq Shelomo (‘The Passion of Solomon’), a mystical commentary on the Song of Songs commissioned by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. She holds a Masters degree from La Sapienza University. Additionally, she received a Master’s degree in Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations from the Gregorian University in Rome. Her research interests focus on medieval and Renaissance Jewish texts and Jewish mysticism, particularly the Kabbalah current and Christian Kabbalah. In this regard, her previous research has investigated the Kabbalistic sources of ritual and performative theses in Pico della Mirandola’s 900 Theses and the reception of Judah Abravanel’s work, ‘Dialogues of Love’.

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Date: 20 May 2025, 20:00
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Speaker: Delia Del Prete
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