Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought

The articles in the volume:

Yehuda Liebes - Clothed Nudity: The Esoteric Cult of Philo

Eran Viezel - Moses’ Role in the Writing of the Torah in Rabbinic Literature and in the Transition to the Middle Ages

Dov Schwartz - R. Shem Tov Falaquera’s Method in Abridging R. Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s Fons Vitae

Eliezer Haddad - ‘You Shall Not Murder’ in the Writings of Maimonides: Ethics vs. Politics

Avishai Bar-Asher - Perush shel Meor haQodesh: The Metamorphoses of Zoharic Homilies in R. Moses de León’s Hitherto Unknown Commentary on the Ten Commandments

Iris Felix and Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel - ‘Fire Bearing Fire’: An Unknown Zoharic Text and the Beginning of Zoharic Commentary in the Early Fourteenth Century – the Case of R. Menahem Recanati and R. Joseph Angilet

Hagai Pely - Halakhah, Pietism, Kabbalah and Revelation in Sixteenth Century Safed: A Study in R. Yosef Karo’s Works

Iris Brown (Hoizman)- Between ‘Rectification of Evil’ and ‘Plain Nonsense’: The Strict Requirement of ‘A Clean Body’ as a Case Study of the Relationship between Hasidism and Halakhah

Emmanuel Bloch - Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch and the Doctrine of ‘Torah im Derech Erets’ in the Eyes of the Hareidim

Uriel Barak - Anti-Semitism from a Theological Perspective: A Study in the Thought of Rabbi Avraham Itzhak HaCohen Kook and his Followers

Eli Schonfeld - Jewish Philosophy as Existential Hermeneutics: A Revisiting of the Relation between Philosophy and Judaism in Emanuel Levinas