Rachel Elior

Biographic Data

ID1649570
NAMERachel Elior
GIVEN NAMESRachel
FAMILY NAMEElior
SIGNATUREELIOR R
AFFILIATIONS1The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX0

  • The Mystical Origins of Hasidism

    Rachel EliorBOOKMystical Origins of Hasidism2006

    Publisher's Note on the Translation and Transliteration 1 The Origins of Hasidism 2 The Hasidic Library 3Mystical Societies and the Spread of Hasidism: Internalizing and Reviving the Kabbalistic Myth 4 The Hasidic Concept of Language: The Window in the Word 5 Israel Ba'al Shem Tov's Uniqueness: Myth, Bibliography, Facts, and Image 6 The Hasidic Revolution 7 Hasidism in the Context of its Time 8 The Unity of Opposites: Being and Nothingness 9 'For…

  • Creation and Re-Creation in Jewish Thought

    Joseph Dan, Peter Schafer et al.EDITORBOOKCreation and Re-Creation in…2005

    Joseph Dan, the Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah Emeritus at the Hebrew University and long-time Professor of Jewish Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, is one of the most influential figures in the fields of Jewish mystical thought, homiletical and ethical literature, modern Messianism and Hasidism, and contemporary 'belles-lettres'. His studies of the diverse aspects of Jewish creativity, with close attention to the dialectics of reli…

  • Ancient Jewish Calendars

    Rachel EliorARTICLEAleph2005

    My discussion of the calendar as it appears in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the pseudepigraphic literature was not intended in any way to be a contribution to the history of science, nor should it be read nor considered in this context. The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism was intended to be a contribution to the history of the marginal voices of the deposed and the ousted, as well as an addition to the history of the bitter disput…

  • Keter

    Rachel EliorARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1999

  • The Lubavitch Messianic Resurgence

    Rachel EliorCHAPTERToward the Millennium1998

  • Paradoxical Ascent to God, The

    Rachel EliorBOOKParadoxical Ascent to God, The1993

  • Merkabah Mysticism

    Rachel EliorARTICLENumen1990

  • Merkabah Mysticism

    Rachel EliorARTICLENumen1990

  • "Schäfer's "Geniza-Fragmente zur Hekhalot-Literatur

    Rachel Elior, Peter SchaferARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1989

  • Messianic Expectations and Spiritualization of Religious Life in the Sixteenth Century

    Rachel EliorARTICLERevue des Études Juives1986

    L'Expulsion d'Espagne qui contraignit les expulsés à changer de langue et de milieu culturel et religieux, les obligea aussi à rechercher un nouveau sens à l'existence juive en diaspora et à élaborer de nouveaux cadres de référence spirituels. Incapables de trouver remède à leur désarroi dans la simple explication des faits ayant conduit à l'Expulsion, ils penchèrent vers l'inter¬ prétation méta-historique et spirituelle de l'événement. L'Expulsi…

  • "Schäfer's "Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur

    Rachel Elior, Peter Schafer et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1986

  • "Elior's "Theory of Divinity in Ḥabad

    Joseph Dan, Rachel EliorARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1986