Acknowledgement

My heartfelt gratitude goes to Giacinto Palmieri, who helped me conceive this project and its call for papers. I would also like to express my sincere appreciation for the authors’ enthusiasm and active collaboration, which has made this book truly engaging and thought-provoking. I believe that we all had the opportunity to learn so much from one another and I believe this is the spirit that should inspire all scholarly research. I would also like to extend my thanks to all the anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback and invaluable comments, which have contributed to shaping the volume in its current form. Finally, I would like to thank Ephraim Nissan, Esther Roth and all the staff at John Benjamins for their support and the editorial work throughout the whole process.