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Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. An important contribution of the book is the integration of the rise and fall of Jewish life in Mu…
The book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theory of the history of philosophy. The book surveys Abulafia's sources and concentrates on the esoteric meaning on the famous parabl…
The nineteenth century witnessed the decline of traditional structures and the birth of new forms of Judaism. During this time, Jews reevaluated the extent to which they were bound by traditional norms. Central to this reevaluation was the authority of traditional Jewish texts, …
This project investigates challenges to the New Testament’s presentation of the Incarnation of the Son of God which derive from the theological and philosophical worldviews of Orthodox Judaism, namely those promoted by Maimonides and Kabbalah. Maimonides’s worldview entailed tha…
This dissertation addresses the reciprocal relations between rational speculation and devotional piety in the life and thought of Rabbi Moses Cordoeiro (= Cordovero - RaMaK, Safed, 1522-1570), arguably the most important mystical thinker in Jewish history. By featuring numerous …
Hayyim Vital was a Jewish mystic (kabbalist) who lived in Safed, Israel in the sixteenth-century. This dissertation examines the implications of Vital's concept of “the oral and the written.” Informed by research in the field of linguistic anthropology, I look at how Vital's vie…
An Italian rabbi, kabbalist, publisher and thinker of Moroccan descent who lived in the Tuscan port city of Livorno and championed the Risorgimento, Elia Benamozegh's abundant writings encompass exegesis, historical studies and various newspaper contributions, in Hebrew, Italian…
Poetry is a creative instrument of inquiry and revelation expressed through images, sounds, and metaphors. In this dissertation, I argue that Solomon Alkabez's poem "Lecha Dodi" (Come, My Beloved) demonstrates this hypothesis. The poem's mythological story connects with people o…
The phenomenology of devekut (mystical union or communion) has been one of the central issues to occupy scholarly attention in the analysis of kabbalistic sources. Although previous studies of devekut have acknowledged the relationship between individuality and devekut, no previ…
This thesis examines the life and works of Benjamin Wolf Rosoff (1869–1957), a pious Jewish tailor and mystical visionary of the period of the great immigration of East European Jews to the United States. The thesis focuses on Rosoff as a member of this migration who sought neit…
The emergence of Kabbalah in twelfth-century Provence gives the impression of historical discontinuity in three respects. The first is the sudden appearance of a relatively complete and highly ramified kabbalistic system in the thought of Rabbi Isaac the Blind, considerably adva…
This intertextual study explores the interrelationship between some modern and postmodern Hebrew writers and kabbalistic texts. The premise is that some early mystical-theosophical texts have certain fundamental poetic characteristics that became a fertile source for later Hebre…