Moscati, Sabatino
MOSCATI, SABATINO
MOSCATI, SABATINO (1922– ), Italian semiticist and archaeologist. Moscati taught Hebrew, Semitic languages, and the history of religions at the universities of Florence, Naples, and Rome. He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and editor, the Rivista di Studi Orientali. His most important works deal with the origins of the Semites, the language and peoples of Palestine and Syria, and the history of the Arabs. Among them are Le antiche civiltà semitiche (1961; Ancient Semitic Civilizations, 1957); L'epigrafia ebraica antica 1935–50 (1951); I manoscritti ebraici del Deserto di Giuda (1955); I predecessori d'Israele (1956); Il profilo dell'Oriente mediterraneo (1956; The Face of the Ancient Orient, 1960, repr. 1963); and An Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages (1964).
Moscati took part in the excavations of Ramat Raḥel in Israel in the years 1960, 1961, and 1962.
From the 1970s on Moscati dedicated his research to the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians and their impact on ancient Italy. He was the greatest expert on the Punic civilization in Italy. He published I Cartaginesi in Italia (1977), Il mondo dei Fenici (1979), Il mondo punico (1980), I Cartaginesi (1982), and Italia punica (1986).
bibliography:
S. Moscati, I Fenici (1988).
[Alfredo Mordechai Rabello /
Samuele Rocca (2nd ed.)]