Rachel Elior

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Rachel Elior is an Israeli professor of at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.^[1] Edition; Up Front She is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought, and has been a faculty member at the university since 1978. She achived her PhD Summa cum Laude, in 1976, and maintains interests in Early Jewish Mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Messianism, Sabbatianism, Hasidism, Frankism and the role of Women in Jewish Culture. She also is an expert on the concept of prophecy in the modern world, ^[2] and an expert on the modern Chabad movement.^[3]

[edit] Bibliography

The Mystical Origins of Hasidism, Oxford, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006
Heikhalot Literature and Merkavah Tradition Ancient Jewish Mysticism and its Sources, Tel Aviv: Yediot Ahronot; Sifrei Hemed: 2004 (Hebrew)
The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 2004
Herut al Haluhot – Studies in the Mystical Foundations of Hasidism, Tel Aviv: Broad Cast University: Defense Ministry Press 1999.
Paneiah ha-Shonot shel ha-Herut -Iyunim be-Mistika Yehudit (Alpayim 15, Am Oved 1998)
Jewish Mysticism: The Spiritual Quest for Freedom, Oxford: Littman Library 2007, (forthcoming)
The Paradoxical Ascent to God: The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad, Albany: State University of New York Press 1993.
Torat HaElohut BaDor haSheni shel Hasidut Habad, Jerusalem: Hebrew University: Magnes Press 1982 (Hebrew)
Heikhalot Zutarti: An Early Mystical Manuscript of the Mishnaic Talmudic Period, Jerusalem: Hebrew University: Magnes Press 1982 (Hebrew)
Galia Raza: 16th Century Kabbalistic Manuscript, Jerusalem: Hebrew University 1981 (Hebrew)

[edit] Citations

^ Hear me roar, Etta Prince Gibson, Jerusalem Post, December 24, 2004
^ Prophecy Now, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 24 September 2000
^ Decade after rebbe, Chabad alive and well Abigail Radoszkowicz, Jerusalem Post, June 24, 2004