David Biale
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Biale |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Biale |
| SIGNATURE | BIALE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chapter 3 Gershom Scholem, Einst und Jetzt: Zionist Politics and Kabbalistic Historiography
Response to Noam Zohar
Origins of the Kabbalah: Not Assigned
With the publication of The Origins of Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern France and Spain, showing its rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God.…
Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as a legitimate academic discipline, he overturned the rationalist bias of his predecessors and revealed an extraordinary world of myth and messiani…
Hasidism: A New History
The End of Enlightenment
The End of Enlightenment? David Biale (bio) The Bible had it wrong: the Jews are not "a people that dwells apart, not reckoned among the nations" (Numbers 23:9). On the contrary, their history, especially at crucial turning points, is deeply, inextricably entwined with the fate of "the nations." The reunification of Spain in 1492 was causally bound to the expulsion of Jews (and Muslims) who refused to convert. The French Revolution's creation of …
John M. Efron. German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic
German Jewry between the second half of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century confronted a dilemma: how to negotiate their relationship to a society that at once welcomed them but also resisted their acculturation. In the face of this challenge, they sought to demonstrate that they were not foreign, but they did so in ways that allowed them to still feel distinctive. In German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic, John M. …
The Many Secularisms Within the Jewish Tradition
Hasidism and Modern Man: Princeton University Press
Gershom Scholem on nihilism and anarchism
Gershom Scholem, the pioneering historian of Jewish mysticism, was fascinated throughout his career by the mystical sources of nihilism in the Jewish tradition, sources which ultimately produced the antinomian Sabbatian movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But in his own political philosophy, he eschewed nihilism for a more moderate religious anarchism, identifying the right-wing Revisionists with the Sabbatians. The relationship…
Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought
Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity but arose from forces long at play within Judaism itself. Biale explores how ancient H…
Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein
Not in the Heavens: The Premodern Roots of Jewish Secularism
The relationship between religion and secularism has become a central question in the study of religion. But secularism is just as diverse as religion. This article treats Jewish secularism as a phenomenon with its own unique characteristics derived in part from the religious tradition against which it revolted. Within premodern Judaism - the Bible, Talmud, and medieval philosophy - one finds precursors to modern secular ideas. The article demons…
Hillel J. Kieval, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
Response to Noam Zohar
Historical Heresies and Modern Jewish Identity
n The Heretical Imperative, Peter Berger argued that modernity, characterized as it is by a plurality of choices, necessarily embraces heresy, for heresy, as he defines it (going back hereisis in Greek) means to choose. In the Hellenistic oikumene, the word most commonly referred a faction or party, from which, in the letters of Paul, for example,1 it eventually developed the pejorative meaning of factionalism or sectarian disagreement. With the …
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: The Sefer toldot yeshu and the Sefer zerubavel
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: The Sefer toldot yeshu and the Sefer zerubavel David Biale (bio) Amos Funkenstein devoted a significant amount of his scholarly attention to polemics between Jews and Christians. 1 He was particularly interested in how each religion borrowed motifs from the other and inverted the other’s narrative, a procedure that he labeled “counter-history.” 2 He defined this genre of historical writing…
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: TheSefer toldot yeshuand theSefer zerubavel
L'A. elargit le concept de «contre-histoire», terme employe par Amos Funkenstein lorsqu'il etudiait les polemiques entre juifs et chretiens, en examinant deux textes. Le premier est le Sefer toldot yeshu, qui est l'exemple originel de Funkenstein d'une contre-histoire juive anti-chretienne. Ensuite l'A. montre que l'on peut etendre la categorie de contre-histoire a des textes apocalyptiques en prenant pour exemple un texte apocalyptique de la mem…
The Last German-Jewish Philosopher: Notes Toward an Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein
L'A. veut attirer l'attention sur des contributions intellectuelles majeures du penseur juif, Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995), ainsi que sur des aspects de sa methode. Toute sa vie il a cherche a comprendre l'Etre dont il doutait en essayant d'ecrire la biographie de Dieu. Pour ce faire, il a scrute les penseurs les plus profonds de la tradition occidentale, paienne, juive et chretienne, depuis les Grecs et la Bible hebraique en passant par les rabb…
Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism
Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America
Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History
Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader. Jehuda Reinharz
Eros and Enlightenment: Love Against Marriage in the East European Jewish Enlightenment
Gershom Scholem's Ten Unhistorical Aphorisms on Kabbalah: Text and Commentary
In 1958, Gershom Scholem published a series of ten aphoristic statements entitled Zehn unhistorische Satze iiber Kabbala.' Although later republished in the third volume of his collected German essays, Judaica,2 these aphorisms have received little or no attention in the English-reading world, despite their considerable interest both for Scholem's own thought and as philosophical reflections on some fundamental issues in the Kabbalah.3 The word u…
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: TheSefer toldot yeshuand theSefer zerubavel
L'A. elargit le concept de «contre-histoire», terme employe par Amos Funkenstein lorsqu'il etudiait les polemiques entre juifs et chretiens, en examinant deux textes. Le premier est le Sefer toldot yeshu, qui est l'exemple originel de Funkenstein d'une contre-histoire juive anti-chretienne. Ensuite l'A. montre que l'on peut etendre la categorie de contre-histoire a des textes apocalyptiques en prenant pour exemple un texte apocalyptique de la mem…
Historical Heresies and Modern Jewish Identity
n The Heretical Imperative, Peter Berger argued that modernity, characterized as it is by a plurality of choices, necessarily embraces heresy, for heresy, as he defines it (going back hereisis in Greek) means to choose. In the Hellenistic oikumene, the word most commonly referred a faction or party, from which, in the letters of Paul, for example,1 it eventually developed the pejorative meaning of factionalism or sectarian disagreement. With the …
Gershom Scholem's Ten Unhistorical Aphorisms on Kabbalah: Text and Commentary
In 1958, Gershom Scholem published a series of ten aphoristic statements entitled Zehn unhistorische Satze iiber Kabbala.' Although later republished in the third volume of his collected German essays, Judaica,2 these aphorisms have received little or no attention in the English-reading world, despite their considerable interest both for Scholem's own thought and as philosophical reflections on some fundamental issues in the Kabbalah.3 The word u…
The God with Breasts: El Shaddai in the Bible
Gershom Scholem on nihilism and anarchism
Gershom Scholem, the pioneering historian of Jewish mysticism, was fascinated throughout his career by the mystical sources of nihilism in the Jewish tradition, sources which ultimately produced the antinomian Sabbatian movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But in his own political philosophy, he eschewed nihilism for a more moderate religious anarchism, identifying the right-wing Revisionists with the Sabbatians. The relationship…
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: The Sefer toldot yeshu and the Sefer zerubavel
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: The Sefer toldot yeshu and the Sefer zerubavel David Biale (bio) Amos Funkenstein devoted a significant amount of his scholarly attention to polemics between Jews and Christians. 1 He was particularly interested in how each religion borrowed motifs from the other and inverted the other’s narrative, a procedure that he labeled “counter-history.” 2 He defined this genre of historical writing…
Not in the Heavens: The Premodern Roots of Jewish Secularism
The relationship between religion and secularism has become a central question in the study of religion. But secularism is just as diverse as religion. This article treats Jewish secularism as a phenomenon with its own unique characteristics derived in part from the religious tradition against which it revolted. Within premodern Judaism - the Bible, Talmud, and medieval philosophy - one finds precursors to modern secular ideas. The article demons…
Masochism and Philosemitism: The Strange Case of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
In the history of nineteenth-century sexuality, the erotic novels of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch occupy an important place as the literary source for the term 'masochism'. Writing primarily in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, Sacher-Masoch won a wide audience for his pornographic tales. But it is less well known today that in the same period he also wrote a long series of 'tales of the ghetto' which are distinguished by ardent philosemitism. In the foll…
The Kabbala in Nachman Krochmal's Philosophy of History
Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History
Introduction 1. From Berlin to Jerusalem 2. Mysticism 3. Myth 4. Messianism 5. The Politics of Historiography 6. Theology, Language, and History Epilogue: Between Mysticism and Modernity A Birthday Letter from Gershom Scholem to Zalman Schocken Selected Bibliography Notes Index
The Kabbala in Nachman Krochmal's Philosophy of History
Masochism and Philosemitism: The Strange Case of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
In the history of nineteenth-century sexuality, the erotic novels of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch occupy an important place as the literary source for the term 'masochism'. Writing primarily in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, Sacher-Masoch won a wide audience for his pornographic tales. But it is less well known today that in the same period he also wrote a long series of 'tales of the ghetto' which are distinguished by ardent philosemitism. In the foll…
Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History
The God with Breasts: El Shaddai in the Bible
Kinship and Consent. The Jewish Political Tradition and Its Contemporary Uses
Gershom Scholem's Ten Unhistorical Aphorisms on Kabbalah: Text and Commentary
In 1958, Gershom Scholem published a series of ten aphoristic statements entitled Zehn unhistorische Satze iiber Kabbala.' Although later republished in the third volume of his collected German essays, Judaica,2 these aphorisms have received little or no attention in the English-reading world, despite their considerable interest both for Scholem's own thought and as philosophical reflections on some fundamental issues in the Kabbalah.3 The word u…
Eros and Enlightenment: Love Against Marriage in the East European Jewish Enlightenment
Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader. Jehuda Reinharz
Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History
Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America
Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: The Sefer toldot yeshu and the Sefer zerubavel
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: The Sefer toldot yeshu and the Sefer zerubavel David Biale (bio) Amos Funkenstein devoted a significant amount of his scholarly attention to polemics between Jews and Christians. 1 He was particularly interested in how each religion borrowed motifs from the other and inverted the other’s narrative, a procedure that he labeled “counter-history.” 2 He defined this genre of historical writing…
Counter-History and Jewish Polemics Against Christianity: TheSefer toldot yeshuand theSefer zerubavel
L'A. elargit le concept de «contre-histoire», terme employe par Amos Funkenstein lorsqu'il etudiait les polemiques entre juifs et chretiens, en examinant deux textes. Le premier est le Sefer toldot yeshu, qui est l'exemple originel de Funkenstein d'une contre-histoire juive anti-chretienne. Ensuite l'A. montre que l'on peut etendre la categorie de contre-histoire a des textes apocalyptiques en prenant pour exemple un texte apocalyptique de la mem…
The Last German-Jewish Philosopher: Notes Toward an Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein
L'A. veut attirer l'attention sur des contributions intellectuelles majeures du penseur juif, Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995), ainsi que sur des aspects de sa methode. Toute sa vie il a cherche a comprendre l'Etre dont il doutait en essayant d'ecrire la biographie de Dieu. Pour ce faire, il a scrute les penseurs les plus profonds de la tradition occidentale, paienne, juive et chretienne, depuis les Grecs et la Bible hebraique en passant par les rabb…
Response to Noam Zohar
Historical Heresies and Modern Jewish Identity
n The Heretical Imperative, Peter Berger argued that modernity, characterized as it is by a plurality of choices, necessarily embraces heresy, for heresy, as he defines it (going back hereisis in Greek) means to choose. In the Hellenistic oikumene, the word most commonly referred a faction or party, from which, in the letters of Paul, for example,1 it eventually developed the pejorative meaning of factionalism or sectarian disagreement. With the …
Hillel J. Kieval, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein
Not in the Heavens: The Premodern Roots of Jewish Secularism
The relationship between religion and secularism has become a central question in the study of religion. But secularism is just as diverse as religion. This article treats Jewish secularism as a phenomenon with its own unique characteristics derived in part from the religious tradition against which it revolted. Within premodern Judaism - the Bible, Talmud, and medieval philosophy - one finds precursors to modern secular ideas. The article demons…
Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought
Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity but arose from forces long at play within Judaism itself. Biale explores how ancient H…
Gershom Scholem on nihilism and anarchism
Gershom Scholem, the pioneering historian of Jewish mysticism, was fascinated throughout his career by the mystical sources of nihilism in the Jewish tradition, sources which ultimately produced the antinomian Sabbatian movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But in his own political philosophy, he eschewed nihilism for a more moderate religious anarchism, identifying the right-wing Revisionists with the Sabbatians. The relationship…
Hasidism and Modern Man: Princeton University Press
The Many Secularisms Within the Jewish Tradition
Hasidism: A New History
Philosophy (22 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (21 works) · Judaism (20 works) · History (17 works) · Theology (15 works) · Religious studies (11 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Political science (9 works)