Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto was an early twentieth-century Italian historian, rabbi, and scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the ancient Near East, and Semitic languages. He served as chief rabbi of Florence and then became a professor, teaching at the University of Florence, the University of Rome La Sapienza, and finally the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Cassuto wrote a popular Hebrew commentary on the Bible and more detailed commentaries on the book of Genesis and part of the book of Exodus.
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