Samuele Rocca did a BA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Biblical and Classical Archaeology, and Ancient and Medieval History. He then did a MA in Classical Archaeology and History of the Jewish People in the Second Temple Period. He obtained his PhD from the University of Bar Ilan, under the supervision of Albert Baumgarten, on the topic Herod’s Judaea – A Mediterranean State in the Classical World (2007).
He then did a post-doc at the Biblical Pontifical Institute in Rome, under the supervision of Joseph Sievers, on the topic: The Jews of Roman Italy: A Mediterranean Diaspora between National Identity and Acculturation.
He currently teaches at the Neri Bloomfield School in Haifa.
