Alexander Kulik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1459577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Kulik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Kulik |
| SIGNATURE | KULIK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3294-0905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Counting on God’s Name
This study reconstructs the numerological considerations behind a Judeo-Greek innovation in religious terminology, with a focus on its key element—Hellenization of the Hebrew name of God. It demonstrates that the Greek nomen sacrum can also be interpreted as a sacred number, a fact that directly infuses the otherwise broad term κύριος with numinosity. This observation carries multiple implications for understanding the phenomena of nomina sacra a…
Gilayon and “Apocalypse”
This paper examines various ways in which apocalyptic studies can benefit from the introduction of the term and concept of gilayon , a reconstructed Hebrew counterpart of the Judeo-Greek apocalypse. The term gilayon , which combines the meanings of “revealed book” and “book of revelation,” refers to a central image of early Jewish revealed literature and could serve to define an important corpus, the boundaries of which might well overlap with (b…
Rabbi Isaac of Rus’ and His Esoteric Teachings
Locating Hebrew Rusia
The study of the Jewish presence in early Eastern Europe has been severely hindered by the ambiguity of medieval nomenclature for Old Rus'. Some scholars even went so far as to deny any connection between the medieval Hebrew term Rusi(')a(h) (in its graphic variations) and the principalities of Rus'. This essay examines this term and others denoting Old Rus' in the medieval Jewish tradition and traces their historical development: from rendering …
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus n…
Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
The господь–господинъ Dichotomy and the Cyrillo-Methodian Linguo-Theological Innovation
This article investigates early Slavic exegesis and its influence on Slavic languages (and, more broadly, models for transferring Judeo-Christian thought onto the Slavic soil). The investigation is based on an example of a unique phenomenon related to the sacro-secular homonymy in the terminology defining the God of monotheistic religions. Out of all the languages of Christian civilization, only the languages belonging to Slavia Orthodoxa depart …
Virtually the ultimate research lab
Virtual reality (VR) can serve as a viable platform for psychological research. The real world with many uncontrolled variables can be masked to immerse participants in complex interactive environments that are under full experimental control. However, as any other laboratory setting, these simulations are not perceived equally to reality and they also afford different behaviour. We need a better understanding of these differences, which are ofte…
Jews and the Language of Eastern Slavs
The dating and localization of Jewish presence, origin and cultural characteristics of Jewish population in the Medieval Eastern Europe became a subject of tense discussion and extreme evaluations, often connected to extra-academic ideological agendas. The question of the spoken language of the Jews inhabiting Slavic lands during the Middle Ages is one of these unresolved questions. The most basic problem hindering the development of this field w…
How the Devil Got His Hooves and Horns
This paper reexamines the problem of the origins of a popular medieval and modern image of the devil as an anthropomorphic creature with hooves and horns and seeks to reconstruct the analogous ancient image of a satyr-like devil as it could be witnessed in diverse sources, including Hellenistic mythology, rabbinic legends, and early Christian texts. It seems that, not belonging completely to any of these worlds, this therianthropic motif emerges …
Jews from Rus' in Medieval England
The paper provides new data for the presence of Jews from Rus' in medieval England and contextualizes this presence based on the evidence of contacts between England and Rus', as well as on the known patterns of Jewish migration between Rus' and Western Europe and between England and the continent. Knowledge of a Slavic language as demonstrated by Jews from Rus' in England is witness to Slavic proficiency of remarkable range, from mastering taboo…
Genre without a Name
Although the term for “apocalypse” is not attested as a title or genre definition in the extant corpus of Hebrew or Jewish Aramaic documents, some early Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic texts may contain rudimentary evidence in favor of the existence of a Hebrew or Jewish Aramaic equivalent for the term. Moreover, its reconstruction can contribute to better understanding of certain wide spread apocalyptic imagery, which must be closely connected to the…
Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
Bread and Matzoth
The Gods of Nahor
Jews and the Language of Eastern Slavs
The dating and localization of Jewish presence, origin and cultural characteristics of Jewish population in the Medieval Eastern Europe became a subject of tense discussion and extreme evaluations, often connected to extra-academic ideological agendas. The question of the spoken language of the Jews inhabiting Slavic lands during the Middle Ages is one of these unresolved questions. The most basic problem hindering the development of this field w…
Virtually the ultimate research lab
Virtual reality (VR) can serve as a viable platform for psychological research. The real world with many uncontrolled variables can be masked to immerse participants in complex interactive environments that are under full experimental control. However, as any other laboratory setting, these simulations are not perceived equally to reality and they also afford different behaviour. We need a better understanding of these differences, which are ofte…
How the Devil Got His Hooves and Horns
This paper reexamines the problem of the origins of a popular medieval and modern image of the devil as an anthropomorphic creature with hooves and horns and seeks to reconstruct the analogous ancient image of a satyr-like devil as it could be witnessed in diverse sources, including Hellenistic mythology, rabbinic legends, and early Christian texts. It seems that, not belonging completely to any of these worlds, this therianthropic motif emerges …
The Gods of Nahor
Bread and Matzoth
Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
Genre without a Name
Although the term for “apocalypse” is not attested as a title or genre definition in the extant corpus of Hebrew or Jewish Aramaic documents, some early Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic texts may contain rudimentary evidence in favor of the existence of a Hebrew or Jewish Aramaic equivalent for the term. Moreover, its reconstruction can contribute to better understanding of certain wide spread apocalyptic imagery, which must be closely connected to the…
Jews from Rus' in Medieval England
The paper provides new data for the presence of Jews from Rus' in medieval England and contextualizes this presence based on the evidence of contacts between England and Rus', as well as on the known patterns of Jewish migration between Rus' and Western Europe and between England and the continent. Knowledge of a Slavic language as demonstrated by Jews from Rus' in England is witness to Slavic proficiency of remarkable range, from mastering taboo…
How the Devil Got His Hooves and Horns
This paper reexamines the problem of the origins of a popular medieval and modern image of the devil as an anthropomorphic creature with hooves and horns and seeks to reconstruct the analogous ancient image of a satyr-like devil as it could be witnessed in diverse sources, including Hellenistic mythology, rabbinic legends, and early Christian texts. It seems that, not belonging completely to any of these worlds, this therianthropic motif emerges …
Jews and the Language of Eastern Slavs
The dating and localization of Jewish presence, origin and cultural characteristics of Jewish population in the Medieval Eastern Europe became a subject of tense discussion and extreme evaluations, often connected to extra-academic ideological agendas. The question of the spoken language of the Jews inhabiting Slavic lands during the Middle Ages is one of these unresolved questions. The most basic problem hindering the development of this field w…
Virtually the ultimate research lab
Virtual reality (VR) can serve as a viable platform for psychological research. The real world with many uncontrolled variables can be masked to immerse participants in complex interactive environments that are under full experimental control. However, as any other laboratory setting, these simulations are not perceived equally to reality and they also afford different behaviour. We need a better understanding of these differences, which are ofte…
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus n…
Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
The господь–господинъ Dichotomy and the Cyrillo-Methodian Linguo-Theological Innovation
This article investigates early Slavic exegesis and its influence on Slavic languages (and, more broadly, models for transferring Judeo-Christian thought onto the Slavic soil). The investigation is based on an example of a unique phenomenon related to the sacro-secular homonymy in the terminology defining the God of monotheistic religions. Out of all the languages of Christian civilization, only the languages belonging to Slavia Orthodoxa depart …
Locating Hebrew Rusia
The study of the Jewish presence in early Eastern Europe has been severely hindered by the ambiguity of medieval nomenclature for Old Rus'. Some scholars even went so far as to deny any connection between the medieval Hebrew term Rusi(')a(h) (in its graphic variations) and the principalities of Rus'. This essay examines this term and others denoting Old Rus' in the medieval Jewish tradition and traces their historical development: from rendering …
Rabbi Isaac of Rus’ and His Esoteric Teachings
Gilayon and “Apocalypse”
This paper examines various ways in which apocalyptic studies can benefit from the introduction of the term and concept of gilayon , a reconstructed Hebrew counterpart of the Judeo-Greek apocalypse. The term gilayon , which combines the meanings of “revealed book” and “book of revelation,” refers to a central image of early Jewish revealed literature and could serve to define an important corpus, the boundaries of which might well overlap with (b…
Counting on God’s Name
This study reconstructs the numerological considerations behind a Judeo-Greek innovation in religious terminology, with a focus on its key element—Hellenization of the Hebrew name of God. It demonstrates that the Greek nomen sacrum can also be interpreted as a sacred number, a fact that directly infuses the otherwise broad term κύριος with numinosity. This observation carries multiple implications for understanding the phenomena of nomina sacra a…
History (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (7 works) · Judaism (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Hebrew (4 works)