Judith A Weiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5686201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith A Weiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith A |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiss |
| SIGNATURE | WEISS J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5292-9637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Spherical Sefirot in Early Kabbalah
In the vein of important observations made by several scholars, in this article I discuss a variegated corpus of early sefirotic passages attesting to the prevalence and conventionality of spherical perceptions of the sefirot , already at the earliest stages of the sefirotic literature known to us. First, I show that for at least a substantial number of the earliest authors, seeing the sefirot as a set of concentric, hierarchical spherical divine…
The Shekhina and Other Divine Female Figures in the Late Middle Ages: A Synchronic Account
Medieval Kabbalistic literature, especially from the last third of the thirteenth century onwards, was very much preoccupied with the notion of a lower-most Sefirah which was perceived by the Kabbalists as female in terms of gender, a notion commonly referred to in scholarship as "Shekhina". An important scholarly attempt to account for the appearance of this highly gendered version of the notion within medieval kabbalistic literature, focused on…
Covert Jewish Sources of Christian Kabbalah: The Case of Guillaume Postel and ʿIyyun Traditions
The article focuses on Guillaume Postel’s Latin Zohar Commentary (1553), with the aim of uncovering a hitherto unknown influence of the medieval ʿIyyun Corpus on Postel’s Kabbalistic thought. Following a prefatory methodological exposition it is demonstrated that in addition to the more common Kabbalistic doctrines, such as those of the Zohar and other central theosophical-Kabbalistic treatises, Postel was also influenced by a different trend of …
Guillaume Postel’s ‘Idea of the Zohar’
Following Boaz Huss’s coinage of an ‘Idea of the Zohar ’, I focus in this paper on the ‘Idea of the Zohar ’ held by the Kabbalistic Christian Guillaume Postel (1510–1581). Postel regarded the Zohar as an ultimate expression of his entire theological and messianic thought, and therefore he produced two Latin annotated translations of this treatise. Relying on a close analysis of the Incipit he attached to the earlier translation completed in early…
Structure amid the Chaos: The Quadruple Structure in Guillaume Postel's Thought
The "New Man" in Cuba: Culture and Identity in the Revolution
For scholars who grew up considering the Cuban Revolution to be a beacon for the world, it is a challenge to engage in serious criticism of Cuba after 1959, as if it may somehow be a betrayal of their own utopian ideals. Ana Serra notes that she certainly felt that personal conflict in examining the subjectivity that informs several novels of the Cuban Revolution, a subjectivity made all the more complicated and poignant because it operates withi…
Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
The bridge between Cuban scholarship and its foreign counterparts can be likened to the hanging rope bridges of the high Andes: a daunting but necessary journey for those who choose a Cuban subject for their research. Like those tenuous but firm rope crossings, too, is the relationship in Cuban historiography between periods marked off by radical ruptures. Scholars within and without Cuba tend to stay inside the perimeter of a given period, and t…
Latin American Popular Theatre: The First Five Centuries
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Latin American Popular Theatre: The First Five Centuries
Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
The bridge between Cuban scholarship and its foreign counterparts can be likened to the hanging rope bridges of the high Andes: a daunting but necessary journey for those who choose a Cuban subject for their research. Like those tenuous but firm rope crossings, too, is the relationship in Cuban historiography between periods marked off by radical ruptures. Scholars within and without Cuba tend to stay inside the perimeter of a given period, and t…
The "New Man" in Cuba: Culture and Identity in the Revolution
For scholars who grew up considering the Cuban Revolution to be a beacon for the world, it is a challenge to engage in serious criticism of Cuba after 1959, as if it may somehow be a betrayal of their own utopian ideals. Ana Serra notes that she certainly felt that personal conflict in examining the subjectivity that informs several novels of the Cuban Revolution, a subjectivity made all the more complicated and poignant because it operates withi…
Guillaume Postel’s ‘Idea of the Zohar’
Following Boaz Huss’s coinage of an ‘Idea of the Zohar ’, I focus in this paper on the ‘Idea of the Zohar ’ held by the Kabbalistic Christian Guillaume Postel (1510–1581). Postel regarded the Zohar as an ultimate expression of his entire theological and messianic thought, and therefore he produced two Latin annotated translations of this treatise. Relying on a close analysis of the Incipit he attached to the earlier translation completed in early…
Structure amid the Chaos: The Quadruple Structure in Guillaume Postel's Thought
Covert Jewish Sources of Christian Kabbalah: The Case of Guillaume Postel and ʿIyyun Traditions
The article focuses on Guillaume Postel’s Latin Zohar Commentary (1553), with the aim of uncovering a hitherto unknown influence of the medieval ʿIyyun Corpus on Postel’s Kabbalistic thought. Following a prefatory methodological exposition it is demonstrated that in addition to the more common Kabbalistic doctrines, such as those of the Zohar and other central theosophical-Kabbalistic treatises, Postel was also influenced by a different trend of …
The Shekhina and Other Divine Female Figures in the Late Middle Ages: A Synchronic Account
Medieval Kabbalistic literature, especially from the last third of the thirteenth century onwards, was very much preoccupied with the notion of a lower-most Sefirah which was perceived by the Kabbalists as female in terms of gender, a notion commonly referred to in scholarship as "Shekhina". An important scholarly attempt to account for the appearance of this highly gendered version of the notion within medieval kabbalistic literature, focused on…
Spherical Sefirot in Early Kabbalah
In the vein of important observations made by several scholars, in this article I discuss a variegated corpus of early sefirotic passages attesting to the prevalence and conventionality of spherical perceptions of the sefirot , already at the earliest stages of the sefirotic literature known to us. First, I show that for at least a substantial number of the earliest authors, seeing the sefirot as a set of concentric, hierarchical spherical divine…
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