Elliot R. Wolfson
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Jewish historian and poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elliot R. Wolfson is a scholar of Jewish studies. Wolfson earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University, where he trained under the supervision of Alexander Altmann.
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- Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (1994) (122)
- Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination (2009) (68)
- Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism (1995) (52)
- By Way of Truth: Aspects of Naḥmanides' Kabbalistic Hermeneutic (1989) (43)
- Venturing Beyond: Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism (2006) (39)
- Merkavah Traditions in Philosophical Garb : Judah Halevi Reconsidered (1990) (34)
- Circumcision, Vision of God, and Textual Interpretation: From Midrashic Trope to Mystical Symbol (1987) (33)
- Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (2009) (33)
- God, the Demiurge and the Intellect (1990) (28)
- Circumcision and the Divine Name: A Study in the Transmission of Esoteric Doctrine (1987) (26)
- Not Yet Now: Speaking of the End and the End of Speaking (2015) (26)
- Secrecy, Modesty, and the Feminine: Kabbalistic Traces in the Thought of Levinas (2006) (22)
- The Problem of Unity in the Thought of Martin Buber (1989) (22)
- Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics (1995) (21)
- Iconicity of the Text: Reification of Torah and the Idolatrous Impulse of Zoharic Kabbalah (2004) (21)
- Facing the Effaced: Mystical Eschatology and the Idealistic Orientation in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig (1997) (20)
- Assaulting the border: kabbalistic traces in the margins of Derrida (2002) (17)
- Messianism in the Christian Kabbalah of Johann Kemper (2001) (17)
- Heidegger and Kabbalah (2019) (17)
- The theosophy of Shabbetai Donnolo, with special emphasis on the doctrine ofSefirot in hisSefer $$\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{H} $$ akhmoni (1992) (16)
- The Tree That Is All: Jewish-Christian Roots of a Kabbalistic Symbol in Sefer ha-Bahir (1994) (16)
- Structure, Innovation, and Diremptive Temporality: The Use of Models to Study Continuity and Discontinuity in Kabbalistic Tradition (2010) (15)
- The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other (2018) (15)
- Murmuring secrets: Eroticism and esotericism in medieval Kabbalah (2008) (15)
- Gottwesen and the De-Divinization of the Last God: Heidegger’s Meditation on the Strange and Incalculable (2017) (15)
- Left Contained in the Right: A Study in Zoharic Hermeneutics (1986) (14)
- Rending the Veil: Concealment and Secrecy in the History of Religions (1999) (12)
- Along the path (1995) (12)
- ICONIC VISUALIZATION AND THE IMAGINAL BODY OF GOD: THE ROLE OF INTENTION IN THE RABBINIC CONCEPTION OF PRAYER (1996) (12)
- The Mystical Significance of Torah Study in German Pietism (1993) (12)
- Alef, Mem, Tau (2019) (12)
- "Tiqqun ha-Shekhinah": Redemption and the Overcoming of Gender Dimorphism in the Messianic Kabbalah of Moses ḥayyim Luzzatto (1997) (11)
- The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow (2018) (11)
- Mysticism and the Poetic-Liturgical Compositions from Qumran: A Response to Bilhah Nitzan (1994) (11)
- Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death (2006) (11)
- The Book of the Pomegranate: Moses de Leon's Sefer Ha-Rimmon (1988) (10)
- The hermeneutics of visionary experience: Revelation and interpretation in the Zohar (1988) (8)
- Vía negativa in Maimonides and its Impact in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah (2007) (8)
- The Body in the Text: A Kabbalistic Theory of Embodiment (2005) (8)
- Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia’s Polemic with Christianity (2012) (7)
- Giving Beyond the Gift: Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania (2014) (7)
- Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications (2009) (7)
- Phantasmagoria: the Image of the Image in Jewish Magic From Late Antiquity To the Early Middle Ages (2001) (7)
- Studies in medieval Jewish intellectual and social history : festschrift in honor of Robert Chazan (2012) (7)
- Hebraic and Hellenic Conceptions of Wisdom in Sefer ha-Bahir (1998) (7)
- The Holy Cabala of Changes: Jacob Böhme and Jewish Esotericism (2018) (6)
- Coronation of the Sabbath Bride: Kabbalistic Myth and the Ritual of Androgynisation (1997) (6)
- Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism (1998) (6)
- Language, Eros, Being (2004) (6)
- Hai Gaon's Letter and Commentary on "'Aleynu": Further Evidence of Moses de León's Pseudepigraphic Activity (1991) (6)
- Inscribed in the Book of the Living: Gospel of Truth and Jewish Christology (2007) (5)
- New directions in Jewish philosophy (2010) (4)
- Nihilating Nonground and the Temporal Sway of Becoming (2012) (4)
- Through a Speculum That Shines (2020) (4)
- Occultation of the Feminine and the Body of Secrecy in Medieval Kabbalah (2015) (4)
- Sacred space and mental iconography: "imago Templi" and contemplation in Rhineland Jewish pietism (1999) (4)
- Suffering Eros and Textual Incarnation:: A Kristevan Reading of Kabbalistic Poetics (2007) (4)
- Light Through Darkness: The Ideal of Human Perfection in the Zohar (1988) (4)
- Open Secret in the Rearview Mirror (2011) (3)
- Ontology, Alterity, and Ethics in Kabbalistic Anthropology (2000) (3)
- In the Mirror of the Dream: Borges and the Poetics of Kabbalah (2014) (3)
- 2 Retroactive Not Yet: Linear Circularity and Kabbalistic Temporality (2015) (3)
- FIVE: Beyond the Spoken Word: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (2017) (3)
- Mythopoetic Imagination and the Hermeneutic Bridging of Temporal Spacing: On Michael Fishbane's Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2006) (3)
- Yeridah la-Merkavah: Typology of Ecstasy and Enthronement in Ancient Jewish Mysticism (2005) (2)
- Angelic Embodiment And The Feminine Representation Of Jesus: Reconstructing Carnality In The Christian Kabbalah Of Johann Kemper (2009) (2)
- Metatron and Shi’ur Qomah in the Writings of Haside Ashkenaz (1995) (2)
- Becoming Invisible: Rending the Veil and the Hermeneutic of Secrecy in the Gospel of Philip (2013) (2)
- "Imago Templi" and the Meeting of the Two Seas: Liturgical Time-Space and the Feminine Imaginary in Zoharic Kabbalah (2007) (2)
- Asceticism and Eroticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophical and Mystical Exegesis of the Song of Songs (2003) (2)
- Flesh Become Word:: Textual Embodiment and Poetic Incarnation (2004) (2)
- Eternal Duration and Temporal Compresence: The Influence of Ḥabad on Joseph B. Soloveitchik (2015) (2)
- Asceticism, Mysticism, and Messianism: A Reappraisal of Schechter’s Portrait of Sixteenth-Century Safed (2016) (2)
- Divine suffering and the hermeneutics of reading: Philosophical reflections on Lurianic mythology (2002) (2)
- Embodied Letter: Sufi and Kabbalistic Hermeneutics (2013) (1)
- Moshe Idel. The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. 245 pp. Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. 178 pp. (1989) (1)
- ZOHARIC LITERATURE AND MIDRASHIC TEMPORALITY (2016) (1)
- The theosophy of Shabbetai Donnolo, with special emphasis on the doctrine of Sefirot in his Sefer akhmoni (1992) (1)
- Introduction: The study of religion (2002) (1)
- Book Review:The Books of Contemplation: Medieval Jewish Mystical Sources Mark Verman (1993) (1)
- Neusner's "The Incarnation of God" (1990) (1)
- Revisioning the Body Apophatically: Incarnation and the Acosmic Naturalism of Habad Hasidism (2009) (1)
- Timemask and the Telling of Time in the Time of Telling (2021) (1)
- The Unknown, Remembered Gate Religious Experience and Hermeneutical Reflection (2002) (1)
- Heeding the Law beyond the Law: Transgendering Alterity and the Hypernomian Perimeter of the Ethical (2020) (1)
- Teaching Jewish Mysticism (2011) (1)
- Apophatic Vision and Overcoming the Dialogical (2014) (1)
- Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (review) (2006) (0)
- Arthropod Diversity in Corn and Mixed Prairie Biofuel Crops (2010) (0)
- Theolatry and the Making-Present of the Nonrepresentable: Undoing (A)Theism in Eckhart and Buber (2017) (0)
- Differentiating (In)Difference: Heresy, Gender, and Kabbalah Study (2004) (0)
- The Status Of The (Non)Jewish Other In The Apocalyptic Messianism Of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (2010) (0)
- 1. Concealing The Concealment The Politics of the Esoteric (2009) (0)
- Rosenzweig on Human Redemption: Neither Nothing nor Everything, but Only Something (2021) (0)
- Showing The Saying: Laying Interpretative Ground (2004) (0)
- Suffering Eros and Textual Incarnation: A Kristevan Reading of Kabbalistic Poetics (2020) (0)
- Envisioning Eros: Poiesis and Heeding Silence (2004) (0)
- Phallomorphic Exposure: Concealing Soteric Esotericism (2004) (0)
- Introduction Behind the Veil Unveiled (2009) (0)
- 1. Thinking Time / Hermeneutic Suppositions (2019) (0)
- Through a Speculum That Shines Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish (2008) (0)
- 23 Skepticism and the Philosopher’s Keeping Faith (2014) (0)
- Book Review:Origins of the Kabbalah Gershom Scholem, R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, Allan Arkush (1989) (0)
- Echo of the Otherwise and the Lure of Theolatry (2014) (0)
- Metaphor, Dream, and the Parabolic Bridging of Difference: A Kabbalistic Aesthetic (2021) (0)
- Judaism: Saturnine Melancholy and Dylan’s Jewish Gnosis (2021) (0)
- Immanent Atheology and the Trace of Transcendence (2014) (0)
- Phallic Jewissance and the Pleasure of No Pleasure (2017) (0)
- Kabbalah: New Perspectives. Moshe Idel (1992) (0)
- Chapter Ten Echo of the Otherwise: Ethics of Transcendence and the Lure of Theolatry (2012) (0)
- Maimonidean Studies ; 5 (2008) (0)
- Coming-To-Head, Returning-To-Womb: (E)Soteric Gnosis and Overcoming Gender Dimorphism (2004) (0)
- HEIDEGGER AND KABBALAH: HIDDEN GNOSIS AND THE PATH OF POIĒSIS. By Elliot R.Wolfson. Indiana University Press, 2019. Pp. xxiii+ 453. $110 (hdbk); $48 (ppbk). (2019) (0)
- Gershom Scholem, "Origins of the Kabbalah" - Moshe Idel, "Kabbalah: new perspectives" (1991) (0)
- Via Negativa and the Imaginal Configuring of God (2014) (0)
- Male Androgyne: Engendering E/Masculation (2004) (0)
- Recovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory (2018) (0)
- Anxiety, Lament, and the Language of Silence: Poetic Redemption and Gnostic Alienation (2019) (0)
- Undoing (K)not of Apophaticism: A Heideggerian Afterthought (2014) (0)
- Crossing gender boundaries in kabbalistic ritual and myth (2018) (0)
- BOOKS RECEIVED (2011) (0)
- Listening to Speak: A Response to Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy (2018) (0)
- Is there any room for women in Jewish kabbalah? (2019) (0)
- 4. Within Mem / Returning Forward (2019) (0)
- 2. A/Voiding Place Apophatic Embodiment (2009) (0)
- To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner’s Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology (2020) (0)
- Breaking the Brokenness and the Healing of the Poem: A Brief Meditation (2019) (0)
- Concealing the Concealment: Towards a Politics of Kabbalistic Esotericism (2022) (0)
- ‘Sage is preferable to prophet’: revisioning midrashic imagination (2009) (0)
- 4. Messianic Torah Hypernomian Transvaluation (2009) (0)
- Biodiversity in Managed vs . Unmanaged Sites (2009) (0)
- Tikkun Passover Supplement 2009 (2021) (0)
- Eunuchs Who Keep Sabbath: Erotic Asceticism / Ascetic Eroticism (2004) (0)
- Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality (2021) (0)
- Dreaming the Dream of the Poem: Flattened Curves of Infinitivity (2011) (0)
- The Book of the Pomegranate (2020) (0)
- Apophasis and the Trace of Transcendence: Wyschogrod’s Contribution to a Postmodern Jewish Immanent A/Theology (2011) (0)
- The Doctrine of Sefirot in the Prophetic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia (2016) (0)
- CHAPTER 5. Flesh Become Word (2020) (0)
- Imagination and the Prism of the Inapparent (2014) (0)
- Suffering Time (2021) (0)
- Secrecy of the Gift and the Gift of Secrecy (2014) (0)
- Kenotic Overflow and Temporal Transcendence (2009) (0)
- Epilogue: Theology and religious studies (2002) (0)
- 6. Apocalyptic Crossing Beyond the (Non)Jewish Other (2009) (0)
- Note on Transliteration (2009) (0)
- 2. Linear Circularity / (A)Temporal Poetics (2019) (0)
- Robert Chazan: In Appreciation and Friendship (2012) (0)
- After Tau/ Where Eendings Begin (2006) (0)
- 5. After Tau / Where Endings Begin (2019) (0)
- Postface In an Instant—Advent of the (Non)event (2009) (0)
- Parting of the Ways that Never Parted: Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Jacob Neusner (2014) (0)
- 3. Semiotic Transubstantiation Of The Somatic (2009) (0)
- Letter to the Editor (2012) (0)
- 5. Female Encircles Male Gender Transposition (2009) (0)
- Halperin's "The Faces of the Chariot" (1991) (0)
- Book Review:On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in Kabbalah Gershom Scholem (1993) (0)
- Destiny (2020) (0)
- Heidegger’s Apophaticism: Unsaying the Said and the Silence of the Last God (2017) (0)
- Melancholic Redemption and the Hopelessness of Hope (2022) (0)
- 3. Before Alef / Where Beginnings End (2019) (0)
- Biodiversity in Managed vs. Unmanaged Sites A Comparison of Species Richness and Abundance in the Upland Forest of (2009) (0)
- Imagination and the Theolatrous Impulse: Configuring God in Modern Jewish Thought (2012) (0)
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