Joseph Dan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Dan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Dan |
| SIGNATURE | DAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History
"An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism...scholarly and complex." — Library Journal "An excellent work, clear and solidly documented by Joseph Dan on Gershom Scholem and on his work." — Notes Bibliographiques "An excellent guide to Scholem's work." — Christian Century
Inside Al-Shabaab
Preface
Geschichte der christlichen Kabbala, Band 1
Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann. Geschichte der christlichen Kabbala, Band 1: 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Clavis Pansophiae 10.1. Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2012. xiii + 700 pp. €128. ISBN: 978–3–7728–2569–9. - Volume 66 Issue 2
Kabbalah
Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction looks at the history and character of the systems developed by adherents of the Kabbalah and examines the key ancient texts of this tradition, including the Sefer Yezira or 'Book of Creation', The Book of Bahir, and the Zohar. Embraced by celebrities and integrated in many contemporary spiritual phenomena, Kabbalah has reaped a wealth of attention in recent years. But many critics argue that the form of Kabbala…
Creation and Re-Creation in Jewish Thought
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…
Medieval Jewish Influences On Renaissance Concepts of Harmonia Mundi
MEDIEVAL JEWISH INFLUENCES ON RENAISSANCE CONCEPTS OF HARMONIA MUNDI JOSEPH DAN It is the purpose of this study to present one of the lines of tradition which contributed to the establishment of the concept ofharmonia mundi as a domi- nant world-view in European culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- ries, mainly in the context of the variegated phenomena which are sometimes united under the general title "Christian kabbalah"'. My focus …
Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala
Der gebürtige Berliner Gershom Scholem (1897 - 1982), der 1923 nach Jerusalem emigrierte, wurde einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zunächst hauptsächlich als der Freund und Nachlaßverwalter Walter Benjamins, als Schüler, Verehrer und Antipode Martin Bubers und als Kritiker Franz Rosenzweigs bekannt. Erst in den letzten Jahrzehnten wurde die ungewöhnliche Breite und Tiefe seines Denkens zunehmend als herausragender Beitrag zur europäischen Geistesgesc…
A History of the Unique Cherub
The »Unique Cherub« Circle
The main point delivered by this book is that Jews living in Germany during the Middle Ages developped a dynamic and variegated culture which should be recognized as a constituent of European and German medieval religiosity. The esoterics, mystics and pietists who produced works like those analyzed in this volume derived their inspiration from the traditional Jewish texts, but were also part of the world they lived in, despite the seclusions enfo…
Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism
A classic text for all those interested in Jewish religious developments in eastern Europe, this paperback has a new introduction locating Weiss's work in the context of contemporary scholarship and the current resurgence of hasidism
Gershom Scholem
The Name of God, the Name of the Rose, and the Concept of Language in Jewish Mysticism
A Hebrew Alexander Romance According to MS London, Jews' College 145
The reader is presented here with a study of the text of a Hebrew manuscript which is a medieval version of the Alexander Romance or the legendary history of Alexander the Great. The Hebrew text in this unique manuscript, known as MS London, is a translation of the Historia de Preliis Alexandri Magni, a widespread Latin version on the Alexander Romance. The Latin text was very useful for establishing an almost complete text of the London version …
Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism
The Books of Contemplation
Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After
Gershom Scholems Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism
A Bow to Frumkinian Hasidism
Journal Article A BOW TO FRUMKINIAN HASIDISM Get access Joseph Dan Joseph Dan THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 2, May 1991, Pages 175–194, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.2.175 Published: 01 May 1991
Ubersetzung der Hekhalot-Literatur. Teil III
"Dan's "Gershom Scholem
"Dan and Kiener's "The Early Kabbalah
"Elior's "Theory of Divinity in Ḥabad
Gershom Scholem's Reconstruction of Early Kabbalah
Journal Article GERSHOM SCHOLEM'S RECONSTRUCTION OF EARLY KABBALAH Get access Joseph Dan Joseph Dan HEBREW UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 5, Issue 1, February 1985, Pages 39–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/5.1.39 Published: 01 February 1985
"Green's "Tormented Master
Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah
The description of the divine world as a mythical struggle between good and evil is one of the basic symbols of the kabbalah, and a detailed mythology based on it is found in the Zohar late in the thirteenth century. The main source of the Zohar on this subject is a treatise by Rabbi Isaac ha-Kohen, called “On the Emanation on the Left,” written in Spain at the beginning of the second half of the thirteenth century, a generation before the Zohar.…
A Late 13th and Early 14th-Century Tile Factory at Danbury, Essex
THE EXCAVATION of a practically complete medieval tile factory, in operation between c. 1275/85 and 1325/35, is described. The establishment comprised three buildings, interpreted as workmen's accommodation (A), a workshop (B), and a drying shed (C), together with two kilns, within a ditched roadside enclosure. The kilns were of the normal type, with two parallel flues; one had a walled stokepit reached by a tile staircase. The methods of tile ma…
Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah
The description of the divine world as a mythical struggle between good and evil is one of the basic symbols of the kabbalah, and a detailed mythology based on it is found in the Zohar late in the thirteenth century. The main source of the Zohar on this subject is a treatise by Rabbi Isaac ha-Kohen, called “On the Emanation on the Left,” written in Spain at the beginning of the second half of the thirteenth century, a generation before the Zohar.…
A Bow to Frumkinian Hasidism
Journal Article A BOW TO FRUMKINIAN HASIDISM Get access Joseph Dan Joseph Dan THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 2, May 1991, Pages 175–194, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.2.175 Published: 01 May 1991
Ḥokhmath Ha-'Egoz, Its Origin and Development
A Late 13th and Early 14th-Century Tile Factory at Danbury, Essex
THE EXCAVATION of a practically complete medieval tile factory, in operation between c. 1275/85 and 1325/35, is described. The establishment comprised three buildings, interpreted as workmen's accommodation (A), a workshop (B), and a drying shed (C), together with two kilns, within a ditched roadside enclosure. The kilns were of the normal type, with two parallel flues; one had a walled stokepit reached by a tile staircase. The methods of tile ma…
Current Israeli Scholarship on Medieval Hebrew Literature
Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah
The description of the divine world as a mythical struggle between good and evil is one of the basic symbols of the kabbalah, and a detailed mythology based on it is found in the Zohar late in the thirteenth century. The main source of the Zohar on this subject is a treatise by Rabbi Isaac ha-Kohen, called “On the Emanation on the Left,” written in Spain at the beginning of the second half of the thirteenth century, a generation before the Zohar.…
Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah
The description of the divine world as a mythical struggle between good and evil is one of the basic symbols of the kabbalah, and a detailed mythology based on it is found in the Zohar late in the thirteenth century. The main source of the Zohar on this subject is a treatise by Rabbi Isaac ha-Kohen, called “On the Emanation on the Left,” written in Spain at the beginning of the second half of the thirteenth century, a generation before the Zohar.…
"Green's "Tormented Master
Gershom Scholem's Reconstruction of Early Kabbalah
Journal Article GERSHOM SCHOLEM'S RECONSTRUCTION OF EARLY KABBALAH Get access Joseph Dan Joseph Dan HEBREW UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 5, Issue 1, February 1985, Pages 39–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/5.1.39 Published: 01 February 1985
"Elior's "Theory of Divinity in Ḥabad
"Dan and Kiener's "The Early Kabbalah
A Bow to Frumkinian Hasidism
Journal Article A BOW TO FRUMKINIAN HASIDISM Get access Joseph Dan Joseph Dan THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 2, May 1991, Pages 175–194, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.2.175 Published: 01 May 1991
Ubersetzung der Hekhalot-Literatur. Teil III
"Dan's "Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After
Gershom Scholems Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism
Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism
The Books of Contemplation
The Name of God, the Name of the Rose, and the Concept of Language in Jewish Mysticism
A Hebrew Alexander Romance According to MS London, Jews' College 145
The reader is presented here with a study of the text of a Hebrew manuscript which is a medieval version of the Alexander Romance or the legendary history of Alexander the Great. The Hebrew text in this unique manuscript, known as MS London, is a translation of the Historia de Preliis Alexandri Magni, a widespread Latin version on the Alexander Romance. The Latin text was very useful for establishing an almost complete text of the London version …
Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism
A classic text for all those interested in Jewish religious developments in eastern Europe, this paperback has a new introduction locating Weiss's work in the context of contemporary scholarship and the current resurgence of hasidism
Gershom Scholem
The »Unique Cherub« Circle
The main point delivered by this book is that Jews living in Germany during the Middle Ages developped a dynamic and variegated culture which should be recognized as a constituent of European and German medieval religiosity. The esoterics, mystics and pietists who produced works like those analyzed in this volume derived their inspiration from the traditional Jewish texts, but were also part of the world they lived in, despite the seclusions enfo…
A History of the Unique Cherub
Medieval Jewish Influences On Renaissance Concepts of Harmonia Mundi
MEDIEVAL JEWISH INFLUENCES ON RENAISSANCE CONCEPTS OF HARMONIA MUNDI JOSEPH DAN It is the purpose of this study to present one of the lines of tradition which contributed to the establishment of the concept ofharmonia mundi as a domi- nant world-view in European culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- ries, mainly in the context of the variegated phenomena which are sometimes united under the general title "Christian kabbalah"'. My focus …
Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala
Der gebürtige Berliner Gershom Scholem (1897 - 1982), der 1923 nach Jerusalem emigrierte, wurde einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zunächst hauptsächlich als der Freund und Nachlaßverwalter Walter Benjamins, als Schüler, Verehrer und Antipode Martin Bubers und als Kritiker Franz Rosenzweigs bekannt. Erst in den letzten Jahrzehnten wurde die ungewöhnliche Breite und Tiefe seines Denkens zunehmend als herausragender Beitrag zur europäischen Geistesgesc…
Creation and Re-Creation in Jewish Thought
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…
Kabbalah
Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction looks at the history and character of the systems developed by adherents of the Kabbalah and examines the key ancient texts of this tradition, including the Sefer Yezira or 'Book of Creation', The Book of Bahir, and the Zohar. Embraced by celebrities and integrated in many contemporary spiritual phenomena, Kabbalah has reaped a wealth of attention in recent years. But many critics argue that the form of Kabbala…
Philosophy (17 works) · Theology (15 works) · Judaism (14 works) · Art (13 works) · History (13 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Jewish mysticism (10 works) · Mysticism (10 works) · History (9 works)