Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533-1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. The book Sefer Nefuṣot Yehudah belongs to the very centre of his homiletic and philosophical oeuvre.

Gianfranco Miletto is university private lecturer ("Privatdozent") at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. He has published on Biblical Philology and on the Jewish culture in Italy at the time of the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation: L' Antico Testamento Ebraico nella tradizione babilonese (1992); Die Heldenschilde des Abraham ben David Portaleone, 2 vols. (2003); Glauben und Wissen im Zeitalter der Reformation (2004), and Judah Moscato Sermons: Edition and Translation, Volume One (2011) and Volume Two (2012).
Giuseppe Veltri, is professor for Jewish Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and honorary Professor for History of Religions at the University of Leipzig. He has published numerous monographs and articles including: Scritti politici e filosofici di Simone Luzzatto (2013), Language of Conformity & Dissent (2013), Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb (2009), and Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts (2006).