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Elliot R. Wolfson

Author of Through a Speculum That Shines

25+ Works 252 Members 0 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Elliot R. Wolfson is the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Among Wolfsons many books, Fordham has published Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination, winner of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship. show more Wolfsons Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination won the 2012 American Academy of Religion Award for Constructive and Reflective Studies. show less

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Do not combine Elliott Wolfson and Elliot R. Wolfson. They are two different authors.

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Works by Elliot R. Wolfson

Through a Speculum That Shines (1994) 45 copies

Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination (2004) 25 copies

Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (2009) 23 copies

A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (2011) 22 copies

Alef, Mem, Tau (2006) 19 copies

Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism (1995) 18 copies

Giving beyond the gift : apophasis and overcoming theomania (2014) 14 copies

Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics (1995) 14 copies

Venturing Beyond: Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism (2006) 14 copies

Luminal Darkness: Imaginal Gleanings from Zoharic Literature (2007) 13 copies

Suffering Religion (2002) — Editor — 10 copies

The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other (2018) 8 copies

The Book of the Pomegranate (1988) 6 copies

Rending the Veil: Concealment and Secrecy in the History of Religions (1999) 4 copies

The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes: Between Nihilism and Hope (Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism) (2023) 3 copies

Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis (2019) 2 copies

Pathwings: Philosphic and Poetic Reflections on the Hermeneutics of Time and Language (2004) 2 copies

Footdreams and Treetales: 92 Poems (2007) 2 copies

Abraham Aboulafia, cabaliste et prophète (2000) 2 copies

Languge, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination 1 copy

Studies in Jewish Mysticism, Esotericism and Hasidism (1993) 1 copy

Abraham Abulafia — Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy and Theurgy 1 copy

Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic Reflections on Temporality (Supplements to the Journal of… (2021) 1 copy

The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy (Vol. 11, No. 1, May 2002). (2002) 1 copy

Eternal light : the 2004 Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica prize (2004) 1 copy

Associated Works

Christianity in Jewish Terms (2000) — Contributor — 175 copies, 1 review

The Generations of Adam (1995) — Preface — 37 copies

Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality) (2001) — Preface, some editions — 36 copies

History of Jewish Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies) (1997) — Contributor — 32 copies

Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (2007) — Contributor — 30 copies

Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality (2009) — Contributor — 20 copies

The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of… (2004) — Contributor — 17 copies

Talmudic transgressions : engaging the work of Daniel Boyarin (2017) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Wolfson, Elliot R.
Birthdate: 1956-11-23
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Education: Brandeis University (MA|1983|Ph.D|1986)
Queens College (BA|MA|1979)
Occupations: scholar of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
university professor
Organizations: University of California, Santa Barbara
New York University
Awards and honors: Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2008)
Fellow, American Society for the Study of Religion (2013)
American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence (1995, 2012)
Fellow, American Academy of Jewish Research (1998)
National Jewish Book Award (1995, 2006)
Disambiguation notice: Do not combine Elliott Wolfson and Elliot R. Wolfson. They are two different authors.

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Awards

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National Jewish Book Award

Through a Speculum That Shines (Winner – Scholarship – 1995)

AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion

A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (Constructive-Reflective Studies – 2012)

Through a Speculum That Shines (Historical Studies – 1995)

Statistics

Works: 25
Also by: 8
Members: 252
Popularity: #90,785
Rating: 3.9

ISBNs: 66
Languages: 3
Favorited: 1

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