Philippe Cassuto

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. 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.

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. In 2005 Cassuto earned his Habilitation to Supervise Research.

Teaching

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