Dr. Sara Moscone

Postdoc

E-Mail
sara.moscone@unibe.ch
Büro
Office 204
Postadresse
Lerchenweg 36
Bern 3012
University of Bern

Curriculum Vitae

CV

2023 - present

Postdoctoral Researcher in SNF-Project "The Jewish and Christian Samuel: Borrowings, Demarcations, Entanglements", Institute of Jewish Studies
2023 Four Month Research assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology, University of Bern.

2019-2023

PhD student in SNF-Sinergia-Project „Lege Iosephum!“ Ways of Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages at Prof. Dr. Katharina Heyden

2016-2019

Letters and History teacher in high school classes in Alba and Bra (Italy)

2018

24 ECTS credits in the anthropological, psychological and pedagogical fields - postgraduate high education course at Università degli Studi di Torino

2017

Post-graduate high education course: XX Settimana di Studi tardoantichi e romanobarbarici: “Il cristianesimo altomedievale tra agiografia ed enciclopedismo” at University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’

2013-2016

Master’s degree in Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity at Università degli Studi di Torino. Thesis in Ancient Christian Literature: “Divine Πρόνοια and Παιδεία in John Chrysostom’s De Anna sermo 1: translation and comment.”

2010-2013

Bachelor’s degree in Ancient Letters at Università degli Studi di Torino. Thesis in History of the Greek Language: “Philoctetes - translation and comment of Dio Chrysostom’s Speech 59”

2005-2010

Secondary school-leaving certificate ('A-levels') in classical subjects at Liceo Classico Statale ‘G. Govone’ of Alba (CN) Italy

Research Interests

  • The figure of Samuel in Judeo-Hellenistic sources.
  • Jewish and Christian relations in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages.
  • The influence of Flavius Josephus and other Jewish sources on Peter Comestor’s Historia Scholastica (Paris, 1160).

Publications

Moscone, Sara (2025). “‘Samuel, the Greatest of Kings and Prophets’ (Ebr. 143): Allegories of Hannah and Samuel in Philo of Alexandria”, Studia Philonica Annual 37 (2025): 17–50.

Moscone, Sara (2025). “Josephus, Comestor, and Women in Biblical Law: Excerpts from Numbers and Deuteronomy”, in C. Bay, A. Ellis, J. Mania, S. Moscone, L. Tröger (eds.) The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism: Reception & Reinvention in Western Europe, Basel: Schwabe, 161–180. https://doi.org/10.24894/978-3-7965-5260-1 

Moscone, Sara (2025). “The Story of Ruth according to Peter Comestor”, in R. Graybill and P. Guillalme (eds.), Ruth, Sheffield: Equinox Publishing 2025, 291–303. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=46882

Moscone, Sara (2025). Pro veritate historiae: Flavio Giuseppe e le fonti ebraiche nell’Historia Scholastica di Pietro Comestore, Basel: Schwabe, 2025. https://doi.org/10.24894/978-3-7965-5203-8

Moscone, Sara (2025, forthcoming). “Lost Oral Traditions: The Jewish Sources of Peter Comestor’s Historia Scholastica”, in M. Clark and R. Saccente (eds.) Texts and Studies in the Scholastic Thought of the High Middle Ages: The School of Paris, Washington: CUA Press.

Moscone, Sara (2023) “Magis Iosephi sententia sequimur: The compass of Comestor’s journey through the Historia.”, in IX Ciclo di Studi Medievali. Atti di Convegno, EBS Edizioni.

Moscone, Sara (2022) “Peter Comestor’s Historia Scholastica: Pursuing the veritas historiae Through the Works of Josephus.”, in Judaica: Neue Digitale Folge, Bern 2022. https://doi.org/10.36950/jndf.2022.19

Moscone, Sara (2017) “De Anna sermones di Giovanni Crisostomo: note di confronto con le omelie De Statuis” in Vetera Christianorum 54, Bari 2017.