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Remaking a Kabbalist: Manuscript and Print Cultures in Early Modern Italy
The dissemination of Safedian Kabbalah in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy represents a critical turning point in the history of...
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Protecting the Image: Was Rav Hayyim of Volozhin’s Portrayal of the Vilna Gaon an Altered Image?
Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720–1797), known as the Vilna Gaon (the Gra), became an icon of Torah learning, saintliness, and devotion to Torah...
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A Sage of the Golden Age of Safed: Rabbi Moses Najara
Many studies have been devoted to the prominent scholars who lived in Safed, such as R. Joseph Karo and R. Isaac Luria, but these figures were...
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Conflicted Disciples: Graetz Through the Eyes of Dubnow, Baron, and Scholem
This essay analyses the twentieth century reception of the German-Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz. Specifically, it traces the ways in which three...
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Suspicion and Evidence: Manuscript Sources of the Hermeneutic Gates of German Pietism
This study presents a new manuscript witness for the hermeneutics gates that Eleazar of Worms apparently presented as the basis of the esoteric lore...
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Rabbi Isaac of Rus’ and His Esoteric Teachings
The paper focuses on the enigmatic thirteenth-century figure of R. Isaac of Rus’. A case study in the reconstruction of early East European Jewish...
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Manuscript Marginalia in a Fourteenth-Century Torah Commentary and the History of Jewish Reading: Ephraim ben Shabbetai on Eleazar Ashkenazi’s Revealer of Secrets
This article explores marginal notations in a manuscript of a resolutely rationalist commentary on the Torah written by the barely known...
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Old Prophesies, Multiple Modernities: The Stormy Afterlife of a Medieval Pietist in Early Modern Ashkenaz
What was the role of the medieval pietistic heritage in the re-formation of eighteenth century’s Jewish cultures, consciousness, and identities?...
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“Evangelical Illustrations”: Mather’s Experimental Exegesis
According to his son Samuel, Cotton Mather read at least fifteen chapters of Scripture a day since his youth. His interest in biblical scholarship...
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Erasmus and Reuchlin: The Jews and their Language
The positioning of the two greatest intellectuals north of the Alps against each other, in this chapter, may generate some injustice to Erasmus since...
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“Experimental Christians”: Mather’s Philosophical and Biblical Vitalism
Cotton Mather (1663–1728) was the most copious and learned biblical exegete in colonial New England. Like his Puritan forefathers, he labored to...
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Athanasius Kircher’s Life and Works
Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) was born in the small town of Geisa, near Fulda (Germany). He studied at the Jesuit college in Fulda and in 1618...
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Between Utopia and Reality (Modern Transhumanism Theories and Posthumanism)
Trans- and post-humanism associate the realization of their ideas with the development of modern technologies and especially convergent (NBICS)...