Daniel Abrams and Avraham Elqayam Editors
A Cherub Press Publication, Los Angeles
VOLUME 4 (1999)
Konstantin Burmistrov and Maria Endel: Kabbalah in Russian Masonry: Some
Preliminary Observations.
Giacomo Saban: Sabbatean Genealogical Trees.
David Harari: Was the Author of Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo a Kabbalist?
New Books and Books Received
Boaz Huss: A Sage is Preferable to a Prophet: R. Simeon bar Yohai and Moses
in the Zohar.
Paul Fenton: R. Joseph Ibn Waqar’s Sefer Shoreshei ha-Qabbalah: A
Kabbalistic Lexicon.
Yoni Garb: The Kabbalah of Rabbi Joseph Ibn Sayyah as a Source for the
Understanding of Safedian Kabbalah.
Mordechai Pachter: ‘The Root of Faith is the Root of Heresy’ in the
Teaching
of R. Azriel of Gerona.
Israel Koren: Mystical and Prophetic Elements in the Works of Fredreich
Weinreb.
Dov Schwartz: From Theurgy to Magic: The Crystallization of the
Magical-Talismanic Interpretation of the Sacrifices in the School of
Nahmanides and his Interpreters.
Book Reviews in Hebrew
Rimmon Kasher: Ann Jeffers, Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine
and
Syria, Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East 8, Leiden-New York- Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996.
Meir Bar Ilan: Michael D. Swartz, Scholastic Magic: Ritual and
Revelation in
Early Jewish Mysticism, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1996.
Alon Goshen-Gottstein: Arthur Green, Keter: The Crown of God in Early
Jewish
Mysticism, Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1997.
VOLUME 5 (2000)
Avriel Bar-Levav: Games of Death in Jewish Books for the Sick and Dying in
the Early Modern Period.
Daniel Abrams: The Dimensions of the Creator - Contradiction or Paradox?
Corruptions and Accretions to the Manuscript Witnesses.
Elliot R. Wolfson: Megillat ’Emet we-’Emunah: Contemplative
Visualization and Mystical Unknowing.
Dan Shapira: אין מזל לישראל: Celestial Race, The Jews.
Andreas B. Kilcher: Scientia cabalistica as Scientia universalis:
Encyclopedism and Kabbalism in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Boaz Huss: NiSAN - The Wife of the Infinite: The Mystical Hermeneutics of
Rabbi Isaac of Acre.
Evgeny A. Torchinov: The Doctrine of the Origin of Evil in Lurianic and
Sabbatean Kabbalah and in the ‘Awakening of Faith’ in Mahhyana Buddhism.
Review Essays and Book Reviews in English
Arthur Green: Reply to Alon Goshen-Gottstein [Review of A. Green, Keter:
The
Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism,
Princeton, 1997, published in
Kabbalah 4 (1999)].
Giacomo Saban: Ilgaz Zorlu, Evet, ben Selanikliyim - Turkiye Sabetaycl -
Makaleler (Yes, I am a Salonician - Turkish Sabbateanism - Articles), Belge
Uluslararas Yayhnchlhk - Istanbul 1998.
J. H. Chajes: J. Z. Werblowsky: R. Yoseph Karo: Ba‘al Halakha u-Mequbal.
Translated by Yair Zoren. Third (Hebrew) edition, Jerusalem: Magnes Press,
1996.
Heidi Laura: Hanna Liss, El’azar ben Yehuda von Worms: Hilkhot ha-Kavod.
Die
Lehrstze von der Herlichkeit Gottes,
[Text and Studies in Medieval and
Early Modern Judaism, 12] Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997.
New Books and Books Received
Yuval Harari: Love Charms in Early Jewish Magic.
Moshe Idel: Enoch - The Mystical Cobbler.
Yair Lorberbaum: Nahmanides’ Kabbalah on the Creation of Man in the Image
of
God.
Melila Helner-Eshed: If You Awaken and Arouse Love: The Language of
Awakening in the Zohar.
Israel Ta-Shema: Additional Inquiries into the Problem of Ashkenazi Sources
to the Zohar.
Alexander Even-Chen: Mysticism and Prophecy in the Writings of Abraham
Joshua Heschel.
Yisrael Koren: Martin Buber-From Ecstasy to the Mysticism of Life.
Review Essays and Book Reviews in Hebrew
Zeev Gries: Between the Surgeons’ Blade of the Historian and the Brush of
the Researcher of Literature [Review Essay of: Moshe Rosman, Founder of
Hasidism - A Quest for the Historical Ba‘al Shem Tov, Berkeley, Los Angeles,
London: University of California Press, 1996].
Efraim Meir: Edward K. Kaplan, Holiness in Words - Abraham Joshua
Heschel’s
Poetics of Piety, Albany: SUNY Press, 1996; E. K.
Kaplan and S. H. Dresner,
Abraham Joshua Heschel - Prophetic Witness,
New Haven and London: Yale
University, 1998.