Tommaso Tesei

Tommaso’s academic interests center on the transmission of knowledge and culture across diverse communities and languages in Antiquity and Late Antiquity, with a primary focus on the Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean regions. His first book, published by Oxford University Press in 2024, explores apocalypticism and ideology in Roman and Iranian societies during the reign of Justinian (6th century CE). He is currently working on a second book examining the reception of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic in late antique legends surrounding Alexander the Great and in the Qur’an.

Tommaso earned his Ph.D. through a joint program between the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and the Department of Arabic Studies at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris. From 2018 to 2019, he was the Patricia Crone Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Before that, he spent five years as a Polonsky Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem.

Tommaso Tesei的学术兴趣主要集中在古代和晚期古代不同时期及语言社区间的知识与文化传播，研究重点是近东和东地中海地区。他的第一本书由牛津大学出版社于2024年出版，探讨了公元6世纪查士丁尼时期罗马和伊朗社会中的启示论与意识形态。他目前正在撰写第二本书，研究巴比伦《吉尔伽美什史诗》在晚期古代关于亚历山大大帝的传说以及《古兰经》中的接受与影响。

Tommaso通过罗马大学（拉萨皮恩扎大学）东方研究系与巴黎东方语言文化学院（Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INALCO）阿拉伯研究系的联合培养项目获得了博士学位。2018年至2019年期间，他担任普林斯顿高级研究院的Patricia Crone会员。在此之前，他曾在耶路撒冷范·里尔研究所（Van Leer Jerusalem Institute）担任Polonsky研究员五年之久。