Anna Angelini (Merate, 1979) is Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Literature. A graduate (cum laude) of the University of Milan, Dr. Angelini completed her doctorate in “Anthropology of the Ancient World” at the University of Siena in 2008. She has since held posts as Boursière d'excellence at the University of Geneva (2012-2013), Polonski Fellow at the University of Oxford (2018), and Senior researcher at the universities of Lausanne (2013-2019) and Zurich (2020-2024). In Zurich, she participated in the project “How God Became a Lawgiver: The Place of the Torah in Ancient Near Eastern Legal History” (European Research Council, Horizon 2020/No. 833222).
Dr. Angelini’s work focuses on the relationship between the Greek world and the ancient Near East, the ancient Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible, and Hellenistic and Greek-speaking Judaism. Her research engages historical semantics, the anthropology of the ancient world, and the history of religion.
Among her publications are L'imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante. Une analyse comparée de la notion de “démon” dans la Septante et dans la Bible Hébraïque (Leiden: Brill 2021), Dal Leviatano al drago. Mostri marini e zoologia antica fra Grecia e Levante (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018), To Eat or Not to Eat: Studies on the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions (with Peter Altmann; Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2024), and The Language of Colour in the Bible. Embodied Colour Terms Related to Green (with Lourdes Garcia Urena et al; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022).
Dr. Angelini is Associate Editor of The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures and a member of the Advisory board of Journal for the Study of Judaism. She is also a member of the editorial board of I Quaderni del ramo d’oro on-line; Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni; AABNER. Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research; and the series Transformation and Crisis in the Mediterranean (CNR Editions).