In this study, Teresa Morgan offers a radically new interpretation of'in Christ'and related
expressions in the undisputed letters of Paul. Starting from a reassessment of Deissmann's …

The Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of
the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to …

In The Feminine Messiah: King David in the Image of the Shekhina in Kabbalistic Literature,
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel presents an in-depth study focusing on the centrality of the figure of …

All Abrahamic religions have developed hypostatic and semi-divine perceptions of scripture.
This article presents an integrated picture of a rich tradition developed in early kabbalah …

The relationship of Philo of Alexandria to Hellenistic philosophy is complex. 1 Philo was first
and foremost an interpreter of Moses: he wrote three different sets of commentaries on the …

Abstract The Booklet of Kabbalistic Forms—a name we have given to this anonymous and
untitled treatise—is a unique work in the kabbalistic library. The Italian kabbalist responsible …

The turn of the thirteenth century is a formative period for the historiography of medieval
Jewish thought. These years saw the dissemination of the Hebrew translations of the …

This essay explores Nahmanides' teachings concerning the holy spirit. It demonstrates that
he elevated the holy spirit to the highest possible gradation in the godhead—conceived as …

Love constitutes a paradigmatic emotion that is frequently deployed by mystics in the
Abrahamic traditions that offers a counterpoint to ratiocinative discourse transporting the …

The purpose of the paper is to explore the presumed link between love and self-sacrifice by
exploring the presuppositions through which it is established in Kierkegaard's thought, and …