Il suo campo di ricerca è la storia culturale dell’ebraismo, filosofia ebraica, magia, storia della medicina, le traduzioni bibliche ed il canone biblico. Tra le sue numerose pubblicazioni sono da annoverare: A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics. Studies in Religion, Magic and Language Theory in Ancient Judaism, Berlin: W. De Gruyter, 2015; Language of Conformity and Dissent: On the Imaginative Grammar of Jewish Intellectuals in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Boston: Academic Studies Press 2013; Scritti politici e filosofici di Simone Luzzatto, Rabbino e Filosofo nella Venezia del Seicento, ed. in cooperation with Paola Ferruta and Anna Lissa, Milano: Bompiani, 2013; Judah Moscato’s Sermons. Volume One, Volume Two, and Volume Three, together with Gianfranco Miletto and Jehuda Halper, Leiden: Brill 2011-2013; Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in 16th-17th Century, ed. together with Gianfranco Miletto, Boston-Leiden: Brill 2012; Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb: Foundations and Challenges in Jewish Thought on the Eve of Modernity, Boston-Leiden: Brill 2009; The Jewish Body. Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, ed. together with Maria Diemling, Boston-Leiden: Brill 2009; Libraries, Translations, and ‘Canonic’ Texts. The Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in Jewish and Christian Tradition, Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 109, Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2006.