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A Dynamic Linguistic Picture: The Name YHWH in Sefer ha-Bahir and in Early Provencal and Geronese Kabbalah
This chapter offers a detailed discussion of the Name in the early Kabbalah of Provence and Gerona. It follows the writings of R. Isaac the Blind, R....
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Rabbi Salim Shabazi and Sufism: Synthesis or Juxtaposition?
In eighteenth-century Yemen, Jews began to write paraliturgical poetry using the Arabic language or alternating stanzas of Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew....
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Introduction: A Deconstructive Approach to Heidegger. Ontology and Critical Theory
A deconstructive analysis of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism and the possibility of develo** deconstruction into a real (Jewish) ontology are two...
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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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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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The Role of Transnational Actors in the Growth of Chabad-Lubavitch among Argentine Jews
This paper addresses the current rise in acceptability and legitimacy of and participation in Chabad-Lubavitch by non-Orthodox Argentine Jews, both...
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Conclusion
My attempt to deconstruct Heidegger’s metaphysics has deeply depended on the “discovery” of his onto-erotic interest for Judaism. This interest has...
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Modena, Leon
In early modern Hebrew usage, the verb leha-atik means to translate, to copy, or to transfer. Leon Modena used the verb regularly to describe his...
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Bringing People Back into the Study of American Jewry: A Response to Debby Kaufman’s Sklare Award, 2022
In a field whose knowledge base has relied especially on analyzing the American Jewish population based on data large scale surveys, Kaufman offered...
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Metaphysical, Religious, and Spiritual Aspects
MetaphysicalMetaphysical concernsMetaphysical give important context to evolutionary theory, for they aim to describe what exists at a more general...
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Delmedigo, Elijah
Elijah Delmedigo is one of the most representative Jewish philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. As a staunch follower of Averroes, he played a key...
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The Study of ‘Hinduism’ and the Study of ‘Judaism’: A Personal Journey
Two religious traditions have informed my personal and academic life – Judaism and Hinduism. This is a reflection on their intersection over a period...
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Kabbalah Map of Motolinía’s Angelopolis
Folio 86v of the Voynich Codex, a large foldout sheet equivalent to six ordinary pages, contains an interconnected series of 11 circles (rosettes)...
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Osiander, Andreas
Andreas Osiander was a Lutheran theologian of the first generation of reformers. He was a preacher and worked as a teacher of Hebrew in Nuremberg. He...
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Conway, Anne
Anne Conway (née Finch) (1631–1679) composed a systematic philosophical treatise, published posthumously in 1690, that outlines a vitalist...
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Joy and Judaism at the Battle of Bunker Hill
One of the central expressions of joy in Jewish tradition is through Torah study. The prophetic tradition envisioned this joy as infectious, charging...
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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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Fractals, Narrative, and Cognition
Joseph Campbell’s theory of the “monomyth” posits a narrative deep structure underlying all human storytelling. In his words, the monomyth represents...
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Introduction
Mystical Traditions: Approaches to Peaceful Coexistence is another installment in the series of volumes flowing from the “Sacred Texts and Human...
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Camillo Delminio, Giulio
Giulio Camillo was a poet and a scholar active in the first half of the sixteenth century. Involved against Erasmus of Rotterdam in the controversies...