Jewish mysticism

Different forms of mysticism in Jewish history

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2022 Published 'Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation' through Yale University Press in the Jewish Lives series
2022 Matt was honored with the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize for his book 'Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation'.
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Joseph Dan
Joseph Dan passed away, concluding a distinguished career as a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism.
2021 Published 'Middot: On the Emergence of Kabbalistic Theosophies' with KTAV Publishing House.
2020 Published 'Vocal Rites and Broken Theologies: Cleaving to Vocables in R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov's Mysticism' with Crossroad.
2016 Published second edition of 'God & the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality'
2014 Published 'Mircea Eliade: From Myth to Magic' with Peter Lang and contributed to 'Representing God'.
2011 Published two scholarly works: 'Kabbalah in Italy 1280-1510' with Yale University Press and 'Saturn's Jews, On the Witches' Sabbat and Sabbateanism' with Continuum.

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