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Name
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Title
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Dept
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Research fields
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Tel
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Rachel
Elior
|
Prof.
|
JT
|
·
History of Jewish mysticism
·
Early Jewish mystical thought
·
Qumran-Hekhalot
·
Kabbalah – early modern period
·
Messianism
·
Pietism and Hasidism
·
Frankism – 18th and 19th
centuries
·
Mystical autobiography
·
Women through Jewish history:
presence and omission in law
·
Literature and myth
·
Mysticism, magic and angelogy in
Hekhalot literature
·
The influence of the priestly
tradition
|
02-588
0250
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|
Jonathan
Garb
|
Dr.
|
JT
|
·
Jewish thought, with special focus
on rabbinic thought, the Renaissance and the Kabbalah
·
Comparative study of mystical
techniques and experiences, with special focus on Shamanism and trance
experiences
·
Post-Modern theory, especially the
work of Foucault and its antecedents (eg. Machiavelli)
·
20th century kabbalah
|
02-588
3508
|
|
Moshe
Halbertal
|
Prof.
|
JT
Phil.
|
·
Jewish philosophy- classical and
romantic
|
02-588
3601
|
|
W.
Zeev Harvey
|
Prof.
|
JT
|
·
Philosophy of Crescas
·
Maimonidean philosophy
·
Spinoza
·
Hobbes
|
02-588
3663
|
|
Moshe
Idel
|
Prof.
|
JT
|
·
Kabbalah: the mergence of Kabbalah
and the problem of continuity of ancient Jewish esoterism in the Middle
Ages
·
The history of ecstatic Kabbalah
·
Jewish Renaissance
·
Concepts of music in Renaissance
thought. Kabbalah music
·
Lurianic kabbalah and the
Shabbatean movement
·
The beginning of Kabbalah in North Africa
|
02-588
1599
|
|
Yehuda
Liebes
|
Prof.
|
JT
|
·
Jewish mysticism
·
Kabbalah
·
The development of Jewish myth, mysticism,
poetry and creativity
·
Sefer Yetsira, the founding
treatise of Jewish mysticism
·
The nature of Jewish myth and the
ways of Jewish mythopoesis
|
02-588
3642
|
|
Shlomo
Naeh
|
Prof.
|
JT
Talmud
|
·
Rabbinic Hebrew, mainly lexicology
·
Textual interpretative study of
the Sifra
·
Thoughts and beliefs of the Rabbis
and their contemporaries
·
Talmud Yerushalmi
|
02-588
3520
|
|
Maren
Niehoff
|
Dr.
|
JT
|
·
Biblical exegesis in the context
of ancient Jewish and Christian identities
·
Circumcision as a marker of
identity – Philo, Origen and the Rabbis on Gen.
·
Philo – and the Roman context
|
02-588
3579
|
|
Aviezer
Ravitzky
|
Prof.
|
JT
|
·
Medieval Jewish philosophy
·
20th century religious
thought
·
Jewish political thought
·
Messianism
·
Religious radicalism
·
Israel: society and
ideology
·
Awe and fear of the Holy Land in Jewish tradition
|
02-588
3603
|
|
Caterina
Rigo
|
Dr.
|
JT
|
·
Jewish philosophy and Christian
scholastics
|
02-588
3575
|
|
Avinoam
Rosenak
|
Dr.
|
JT
|
·
Meditation and halacha
·
Modern Jewish thought- with
emphasis on Rabbi A.I Kook, Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik, and Rabbi M.A. Amiel
|
02-588
3533
|
|
Sarah
Stroumsa
|
Prof.
|
JT
Arab
L&Lit
|
·
History of philosophical and
theological thought in Arabic in the early Islamic Middle Ages (8th-13th
centuries C.E.)
·
Medieval Judeo-Arabic literature
·
Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain
|
02-588
3676
|
|
Arab
L&Lit - Arabic Language
& Literature
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