Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, and Shaul Magid
For Elliot Wolfson, by Haviva Pedaya
PART I. STUDIES ON RELIGION
Elliot Wolfson's Philosophical Theology (A Hypothesis), by Martin Kavka
“What We Are to Remember in the Future”: Thoughts on Elliot Wolfson's Book on Dreams, by Elisabeth Weber
Demonology Beyond Dualisms, by Annette Yoshiko Reed
The History of Our Present Disaster: Apocalyptic Time, Buber, and 4 Ezra, by Dustin Atlas
Bad Faith; or, Why the Jews Aren't a Religion, by Daniel Boyarin
Divine Economy: Notes on the Religious Apparatus, by Hent de Vries
In the Name of Time: Marcel Proust, the Zohar, and Elliot Wolfson's Notion of Timeswerve, by Clémence Boulouque
The Timeswerve: Reading Elliot Wolfson in a Block Universe, by Jeffrey Kripal
See Under: Erich Neumann's Typologies of the Great Mother and the Kabbalistic Lexical Tradition, by Pinchas Giller
The Being of Institutional Logics? Notes for a Religious Institutionalism Without God, by Roger Friedland
PART II. STUDIES ON KABBALAH
The Tree and the Ministering Angels in Sefer ha-Bahir, by Ronit Meroz
Gender and Vision in Otzar Hayyim/Heikhal ha-Brakha by R. Itzhak Eizik Safrin of Komarno, by Jonathan Garb
Love Letters: The Literal Foundations of Love in the Zohar on the Song of Songs, by Joel Hecker
A King Without the Matronita Is Not Called “King”: Between Queen Consort and Divine Consort in Thirteenth Century Kabbalah, by Sharon Koren
Androcentric Readings of Kabbalistic Texts by Kabbalists: Delimiting the Polysemia of Kabbalistic Writings, by Daniel Abrams
Secrecy, Kabbalah, and Maimonideanism in the Thirteenth Century, by Jonathan Dauber
On Kabbalah and Nature: Language, Being, and Poetic Thinking, by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Fear and the Feminine: Kabbalistic Theurgy of the Negative Commandments, by Leore Sachs-Shmueli
PART III. STUDIES ON JEWISH THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY
Mysticism and the Ontology of Language in the Poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik, by Michael Fishbane
Universal Singularities: Elliot R. Wolfson on Jewish Ethnocentrism, by Hartley Lachter
Prophetic Vision and Imagination: Reading Maimonides with Wolfson and Wyschogrod, by Andrea Dara Cooper
Philosophy and Dissimulation in Elijah of Vilna's Writings and Legacy Eliyahu Stern
Idols in the Sanctuary: Elliot Wolfson and Modern Jewish Thought, by Robert Erlewine
To Infinity, Not Beyond: Spinoza's Ontology of the Not One, by Gilah Kletenik
A Trace of Levinas: Wolfson's Phenomenology of Vulnerable Learning, by Sarah Pessin
The Mirror Through Which One Sees the Other: Wolfson, Heidegger, Kabbalah, and the Making of a Primary Jewish Text, by Shaul Magid
A Stolperstein for Blumenberg?, by Steven M. Wasserstrom
Home(s) in Future Anteriors; or, Paths of Poiesis Fourfolded Forward, by Almut Sh. Bruckstein
When the Particular Is Not Indexical of the Universal: Some Thoughts on the Study of Judaism in Light of Elliot R. Wolfson's Work, by Aaron W. Hughes
Religion and Technology: The Star of Redemption in the Language of New Media, by Zachary Braiterman
PART IV. WORKS BY ELLIOT R. WOLFSON
Poems
Publications
Contributors
Index
Glenn Dynner is the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies and director of the Bennett Center at Fairfield University. He is coeditor of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies and a recent Guggenheim Fellow. He is author of “Men of Silk”: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society and Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland. His latest book is entitled The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust.
Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus; The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany; and Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung. Her forthcoming book, written with Sarah Imhoff, is Jewish Studies and the Woman Question. A Guggenheim Fellow, she also is the recipient of five honorary doctorates from institutions in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland, and she has held research grants from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Shaul Magid is a professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion at Harvard, and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He has rabbinical ordination from Jerusalem in 1984. Among other books, he is the author of From Metaphysics to Midrash; American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society; and Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism. He is the editor of the column Teiku for the Ayin Journal and writes regularly for +972 and Religion Dispatches. He is an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the American Society for the Study of Religion.
