עברית

Prof. Daniel Abrams

Email
danielabrams@hotmail.com
Office
jacobovitz building, (1002) floor 4 room 408
Fields of Interest

My research has focused on Jewish mysticism in Europe in the middle ages, in Ashkenaz, Provence, Gerona and Castile. I have published a number of editions of texts from the Early Kabbalah and a series of articles on divine hypostases and angelic figures, tracing traditions from rabbinic times through the Spanish Expulsion. I have published a number of studies on the meanings of the masculine and feminine in kabbalistic literature and a book that discusses for the first time the positive description of the subjective and embodied experience of the divine female body in kabbalistic literature. I have published a number of studies on the Zohar showing that it was not composed as a book but rather was edited as such at a much later date. More recently, I published a book of textual scholarship and methodologies of kabbalistic research in light of the wide-spread phenomenon of textual fluidity in Kabbalah and the existence of multiple versions with which that the editor and academic interpreter of these texts works. Since 1996 I have served as editor of ‘Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts’.

Personal Website
https://biu.academia.edu/DanielAbrams
Research

My research has focused on Jewish mysticism in Europe in the middle ages, in Ashkenaz, Provence, Gerona and Castile. I have published a number of editions of texts from the Early Kabbalah and a series of articles on divine hypostases and angelic figures, tracing traditions from rabbinic times through the Spanish Expulsion. I have published a number of studies on the meanings of the masculine and feminine in kabbalistic literature and a book that discusses for the first time the positive description of the subjective and embodied experience of the divine female body in kabbalistic literature. I have published a number of studies on the Zohar showing that it was not composed as a book but rather was edited as such at a much later date. More recently, I published a book of textual scholarship and methodologies of kabbalistic research in light of the wide-spread phenomenon of textual fluidity in Kabbalah and the existence of multiple versions with which that the editor and academic interpreter of these texts works. Since 1996 I have served as editor of ‘Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts’.

Courses

Introduction to Kabbalah

In this course we will learn basic concepts of Kabbalah and the major historical periods in the development of Jewish esotericism. The course is comprised of readings of texts we will study in class and article that will provide the background for additional explanations.

Gates of Light by R. Joseph Gikatilla

The aim of the course is to study Sefer Shaarei Orah, The Gates of Light, which is the most important medieval primer or introduction to the ten sefirot. We will read in class from the Warsaw printing, 1883.

Gates of Light

Readings in the Zohar

The purpose of this course is to provide the academic background regarding the status and character of the Zohar and to read during the course from the text of the Zohar.

Sefer Tiqqunei Zohar

In this course we will study the book Tiqqunei Zohar which has been the most important book in Kabbalah. We will study the importance of this work, definitions of the work in manuscript form, its edition and the relationship it has to the Zohar in copies in medieval manuscripts. We will also study the history of the first printings. The core of the course will be devoted to reading the text of Tiqqunei Zohar in order to understand its worldview and spiritual orientation, its relation to the Zohar and its agenda.

Tiqqunim Haddashim and Other Writings by the Author of Tiqqunei Zohar

In this course we will study the other writings of the author of Sefer Tiqqunei Zohar. Scholarship has devoted much attention to the corpus of writings in Hebrew and Aramaic of this author, his self-awareness, and the writing techniques, such as automatic writing, that he employed to produce his associative style of writing. We will study his various works such as the Tiqqunim Hadashim, his unnamed Hebrew works and the ‘Faithful Shepherd’.

 

 

 

Publications

Doctoral Dissertation

  1.  ‘The Book of Illumination of R. Jacob ben Jacob Ha-Kohen: A Synoptic Edition From Various Manuscripts’ (in Hebrew), Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, 1993, Advisor: Prof. Elliot Wolfson. Unpublished, available through UMI.

    Books

  2.  The Book Bahir: An Edition based on the Earliest Manuscripts, with an introduction by Moshe Idel, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1994, 360 pages (in Hebrew).  ספר הבהיר על פי כתבי היד הקדומים, עם מבוא מאת משה אידל, לוס אנג'לס: הוצאת כרוב, תשנ"ד, 360 עמודים [Reviews: Boaz Huss, Tarbiz 65 (1996), pp. 333-340; Annelies Kuyt, Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge 22 (1995), pp. 197-199; Charles Mopsik, Études Augustiniennes 42 (1996), pp. 204-206].
  3.  R. Asher ben David: His Complete Works and Studies in his Kabbalistic Thought, Including The Commentaries to the Account of Creation by the Kabbalists of Provence and Gerona, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1996, 378 pages (in Hebrew). ר' אשר בן דוד כל כתביו ועיונים בקבלתו ונוסף לו פירושי מעשה בראשית, של המקובלים בפרובאנס ובגירונה, לוס אנג'לס: הוצאת כרוב, תשנ"ו, 378 עמודים
  4.  Sexual Symbolism and Merkavah Speculation in Medieval Germany: A Study of the Sod ha-Egoz Texts, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1997, 216 pages.
  5.  R. Judah the Pious’ Sefer Gematriot, introduced by Daniel Abrams and Israel Ta-Shma, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1998, 154 pages (in Hebrew).  ספר גימטריאות לר' יהודה החסיד, עם מבואות מאת דניאל אברמס וישראל תא-שמע, לוס-אנג'לס: הוצאת כרוב, תשנ"ח, 154 עמודים
  6. The Female Body of God in Kabbalistic Literature: Embodied Forms of the Love and Sexuality of the Divine Feminine, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005, 221 pages (in Hebrew). הגוף האלוהי הנשי בקבלה: עיון בצורות של אהבה גופנית ומיניות נשית של האלוהות, ירושלים: הוצאת מאגנס תשס"ה, 221 עמודים
  7. Abrams, Daniel and Asi Farber-Ginat. The Commentaries to Ezekiel’s Chariot of R. Eleazar of Worms and R. Jacob ben Jacob ha-Kohen, edited and introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat and Daniel Abrams, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 2004, 180 pages (in Hebrew). פירושי המרכבה לר' אלעזר מוורמס ולר' יעקב בן יעקב הכהן, ההדירו על פי כתבי יד והוסיפו מבוא אסי פרבר-גינת ודניאל אברמס, לוס אנג'לס: הוצאת כרוב, תשס"ד, 180 עמודים
  8. Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism, with a foreword by David Greetham, Los Angeles: Cherub Press and Jerusalem: Magnes Press 2010. Second revised edition with a new chapter: Textual Fixity and Textual Fluidity: Kabbalistic Textuality and the Hypertexualism of Kabbalah Scholarship, 2013, 832 pages.
  9. Ten Psychoanalytic Aphorisms on the Kabbalah (Lecture Delivered at the Ceremony for the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Scholarship at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities on the Anniversary of Gershom Scholem’s Birth, December 5, 2010), Los Angeles: Cherub Press 2011 [Bilingual edition, English and Hebrew, 88 pages total]. עשרה מאמרים פסיכואנליטיים על הקבלה, הרצאה שניתנה בטקס הענקת הפרס בחקר הקבלה על שם גרשם שלום באקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים ביום הולדתו של גרשם שלום כ"ט בכסלו תשע"א, לוס אנג'לס, הוצאת כרוב, תשע"א

    Books Edited

  10. Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Moshe Idel, edited and annotated by Daniel Abrams, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1997, 64 pages. רשימת הכתבים של פרופסור משה אידל, לוס אנג'לס: הוצאת כרוב, תשנ"ז, 64 עמודים
  11. R. Joseph Gikatilla’s Commentary to Ezekiel’s Chariot, Critically Edited and Introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat, edited for publication by Daniel Abrams, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1998, 114 pages (in Hebrew). פירוש המרכבה לר' יוסף ג'קטילה, ההדירה וצירפה מבואות אסי פרבר-גינת; ערך והביא לדפוס דניאל אברמס, לוס אנג'לס: הוצאת כרוב, תשנ"ח, 114 עמ'
  12. R. Moses De Leon’s Commentary to Ezekiel’s Chariot, Critically Edited and Introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat, edited for publication by Daniel Abrams, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1998 98 pages (in Hebrew) פירוש המרכבה לר' משה די ליאון, ההדירה וצירפה מבואות אסי פרבר-גינת; ערך והביא לדפוס דניאל אברמס, לוס אנג'לס: הוצאת כרוב, תשנ"ח, 98 עמ'
  13. Sex of the Soul: On the Vicissitudes of Sexual Difference in Kabbalah, by Charles Mopsik, edited, with a foreword by Daniel Abrams, Los Angeles 2005, 204 pages.
  14. Lurianic Kabbalah: Collected Studies by Gershom Scholem, edited and introduced by Daniel Abrams (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 22); Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 2008, 440 pages [in Hebrew]. קבלת האר"י: אוסף מאמרים מאת גרשם שלום, לוס אנג'לס: הוצאת כרוב תשס"ח, 440 עמודים

    Editor of Journal

  15. Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית; Avraham Elqayam co-editor, volumes 1-17: 1 (1996) [312 pages]; 2 (1997) [358 pages]; 3 (1998) [394 pages]; 4 (1999) [456 pages]; 5 (2000) [458 pages]; 6 (2001) [328 pages]; 7 (2002) [400 pages]; 8 (2003) = Special volume on Sabbateanism [368 pages]; 9 (2003) = Special volume on Sabbateanism; [396 pages] 10 (2004) [360 pages]; 11 (2004) [400 pages]; 12 (2004) [352 pages] 13 (2005) [336 pages] 14 (2006) [384 pages] 15 (2006) [368 pages]; 16 (2007) [360 pages]; 17 (2007) [336 pages]; 18 (2008) [320 pages]; 19 (2009) [336 pages]; 20 (2009) [368 pages]; 21 (2010) [384 pages]; 22 (2010) [304 pages]; 23 (2010) [304 pages]; 24 (2011) [304 pages]; ; 25 (2011) 26 (2011) 320 pages; 27 (2012) 320 pages; 28 (2012) 320 pages; 29 (2013), 320 pp.; 30 (2013), 320 pp.; 31 (2014), pp. 320 pp.; 32 (2014), 320 pp.; 33 (2013), 320 pp.; 34 (2016), 320 pp.; 35 (2016), 320 pp.; 34 (2106) 320 pp.; 35 (2016), 320 pp.

    Book Series Editor

    ‘Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism’, Cherub Press

  1. The Book Bahir: An Edition Based on the Earliest Manuscripts, ספר הבהיר על פי כתבי היד הקדומים by Daniel Abrams with an introduction by Moshe Idel (volume 1) [in Hebrew]
  2. R. Asher ben David: His Complete Works and Studies in his Kabbalistic Thought, Including the Commentaries to the Account of Creation by the Kabbalists of Provence and Gerona, ר' אשר בן דוד כל כתביו ועיונים בקבלתו ונוסף לו פירושי מעשה בראשית, של המקובלים בפרובאנס ובגירונה by Daniel Abrams (volume 2) [in Hebrew]
  3. R. Moses de Leon’s Sefer Sheqel ha-Qodesh, שקל הקדש לר' משה די ליאון Critically Edited and Introduced by Charles Mopsik with an introduction by Moshe Idel (volume 3) [in Hebrew]
  4. R. Joseph Gikatilla’s Commentary to Ezekiel’s Chariot, פירוש המרכבה לר' יוסף ג'קטילה, Critically Edited and Introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat (volume 4) [in Hebrew]
  5. R. Moses De Leon’s Commentary to Ezekiel’s Chariot, פירוש המרכבה לר' משה די ליאון Critically Edited and Introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat (volume 5) [in Hebrew]
  6. Sefer Gematriot of R. Judah the Pious: Facsimile Edition of a Unique Manuscript, ספר גימטריאות Introduced by Daniel Abrams and Israel Ta-Shema (volume 6) [in Hebrew]
  7. Abraham Abulafia – Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy and Theurgy, by Elliot R. Wolfson (volume 7) [in Hebrew]
  8. Vision and Speech: Models of Revelatory Experience in Jewish Mysticism, המראה והדיבור by Haviva Pedaya (volume 8) [in Hebrew]
  9. The Mystical Meaning of Lekhah Dodi and Kabbalat Shabbat, קבלת שבת ולכה דודי by Reuven Kimelman [co-published with the Magnes Press, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem] (volume 9) [in Hebrew]
  10. Roots of Faith and Devequt: Studies in the History of Kabbalistic Ideas, by Mordechai Pachter, (volume 10) [in Hebrew]
  11. The Commentaries to Ezekiel’s Chariot of R. Eleazar of Worms and R. Jacob ben Jacob ha-Kohen, פירושי המרכבה לר' אלעזר מוורמס ולר' יעקב בן יעקב הכהן edited and introduced by Asi Farber-Ginat and Daniel Abrams, (volume 11) [in Hebrew]
  12. Words of the Righteous (Divrei Saddiqim): An Anti-Hasidic Satire by Joseph Perl and Isaac Baer Levinsohn, דברי צדיקים critically edited and introduced by Jonatan Meir, co-published with The Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (volume 12) [in Hebrew]
  13. The Intention of Prayers in Early Ecstatic Kabbalah: A Study and Critical Edition of an Anonymous Commentary to the Prayers, כוונת המברך למקום המעשה by Adam Afterman (volume 13) [in Hebrew]
  14. Joseph b. Abraham Ibn Waqar: Principles of the Qabbalah, ספר שרשי הקבלה Edited from Hebrew and Arabic Manuscripts, by P. B. Fenton (volume 14) [in Hebrew]
  15. Enchanted Chains: Rituals and Techniques in Jewish Mysticism, by Moshe Idel, with a foreword by Harold Bloom (volume1 5) [in Hebrew]
  16. Sex of the Soul: On the Vicissitudes of Sexual Difference in Kabbalah, by Charles Mopsik, with a foreword by Daniel Abrams (volume 16) [in Hebrew]
  17. The Interpretation of Secrets and the Secret of Interpretation: Midrashic and Hermeneutic Strategies in Sabba de-Mishpatim of the Zohar, פרשנות הסוד וסוד הפרשנות: מגמות מדרשיות והרמנויטיות ב'סבא דמשפטים' שבזוהר by Oded Yisraeli, (volume 17) [in Hebrew]
  18. Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah: The Masculine and Feminine in Lurianic Kabbalah, פסיכואנליזה וקבלה: לתהליכי זיווג הזכרי והנקבי בקבלת האר"י by Devorah Bat-David Gamlieli (Volume 18) [in Hebrew]
  19. The Secret of Unity: Unifications in the Kabbalistic and Hasidic Thought of R. Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer of Czernowitz, בסוד היחוד: היחודים בהגותו הקבלית-חסידית של ר' חיים בן שלמה טירר מטשרנוביץ by Ron Wacks, (volume 19) [in Hebrew]
  20. Mystical Society: Sociology, Jewish Mysticism and Education, by Philip Wexler, (volume 20) [in English].
  21. Analogy in Midrash and Kabbalah: Interpretive Projections of the Sanctuary and Ritual, by Maurizio Mottolese (volume 21) [in English]
  22. Lurianic Kabbalah: Collected Studies by Gershom Scholem, קבלת האר"י: אוסף מאמרים מאת גרשם שלום edited by Daniel Abrams (volume 22)
  23. Concealed and Revealed: ‘Ein Sof’ in Theosophic Kabbalah, בנסתר ובנגלה: עיונים בתולדות ה'אין סוף' בקבלה by Sandra Valabregue-Perry (volume 23)
  24. Automatic Writing in Zoharic Literature and Modernism, שם הכותב וכתיבה אוטומטית בספרות הזוהר ובמודרניזם by Amos Goldreich (volume 24)
  25. Sefer ha-Shem Attributed to R. Moses de León, ספר השם המיוחס לר' משה די ליאון Edited, annotated and introduced by Michal Oron, (volume 25).
  26. Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism, with a foreword by David Greetham (volume 26).
  27. The Dates of Composition of The Zohar and The Book Bahir: The History of Biblical Vocalization and Accentuation as a Tool for Dating Kabbalistic Works, by Jordan S. Penkower, (volume 27).
  28. Devequt: Mystical Intimacy in Medieval Jewish Thought, דבקות: התקשרות אינטימית בין אדם למקום בהגות היהודית בימי הביניים by Adam Afterman (volume 28).
  29. Ten Psychoanalytic Aphorisms on the Kabbalah (Lecture Delivered at the Ceremony for the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Scholarship at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities on the Anniversary of Gershom Scholem’s Birth, December 5, 2010) עשרה מאמרים פסיכואנליטיים על הקבלה, הרצאה שניתנה בטקס הענקת הפרס בחקר הקבלה על שם גרשם שלום באקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים ביום הולדתו של גרשם שלום כ"ט בכסלו תשע"א, by Daniel Abrams, Bilingual edition (volume 29).
  30. The Appearance of the High Priest – Theophany, Apotheosis and Binitarian Theology: From Priestly Tradition of the Second Temple Period through Ancient Jewish Mysticism, מראה כהן: תיאופניה, אפותיאוזה, ותיאולוגיה בינארית – בין ההגות הכהנית בתקופת הבית השני לבין המיסטיקה היהודית הקדומה by Michael Schneider, (volume 30); 2012
  31. Scattered Traditions of Jewish Mysticism: Studies in Ancient Jewish Mysticism in Light of Traditions from the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha Hellenistic Literature, Christian and Islamic Sources, המסורות הגנוזות של המיסטיקה היהודית: מחקרי המיסטיקה היהודית הקדומה על פי עדויות של ספרים חיצונים, ספרות הלניסטית, מקורות נוצריים ומוסלמיים by Michael Schneider (volume 31); 2012
  32. The Divine Retinue: Variety of Jewish Mysticism, פמליא של מעלה: ריבוי פניה של המיסטיקה היהודית by Michael Schneider (volume 32); 2012 (forthcoming)
  33. Window to the Stories of the Zohar: Studies in the Exegetical and Narrative Methods of the Zohar צוהר לסיפורי הזוהר: עיונים בדרכי הדרוש והסיפור בספר הזוהר by Michal Oron (volume 33); 2013
  34. The Works of Iyyun: Critical Editions, כתבי העיון, edited by Oded Porat (volume 34), 2013
  35. Illuminated Piety: Pietistic Texts and Images in The North French Hebrew Miscellany, by Sara Offenberg, (volume 35); 2013.
  36. Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism, by Daniel Abrams, foreword by David Greetham (second revised edition, volume 36), 2103.
  37. R. Moses de León, Sefer Mishkan ha-Edut, ספר משכן העדות לר' משה די ליאון, Critically edited, introduced and annotated by Avishai Bar-Asher, (volume 37)
  38. From Safed to Kotsk: Studies in Kabbalah and Hasidism, by Morris M. Faierstein, (volume 38)
  39. Vision as a Mirror: Imagery Techniques in Twentieth Century Jewish Mysticism, by Daniel Reiser (volume 39) הַמַּרְאֶה כַּמַּרְאָה: טכניקת הַדִּמְיוּן במיסטיקה היהודית במאה העשרים
  40. Sabbatean Millenarianism in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of Moshe Abudiente's Fin de los Dias, Avraham Elqayam (volume 40). המסע לקץ הימין: בשורת הגאולה השבתאית למשורר משה בן גדעון אבּודיֶנטֵי
  41. The Myth of the Edomite Kings in Zoharic Literature: Creation and Revelation in the Idrot Texts of the Zohar, by Avishar Har-Shefi (volume 41) אבישר הר שפי: 'מלכין קדמאין': הבריאה וההתגלות בספרות האידרות של הזוהר
  42. R. Jonathan Eibeschütz, And I Came this Day unto the Fountain, ואבוא היום אל העין, Critically Edited and Introduced by Paweł Maciejko, With Additional Studies by Noam Lefler, Jonatan Benarroch and Shai Alleson Gerberg, 2014 (volume 42),
  43. Megalleh ‘Amuqot – The Enoch-Metatron Tradition in the Kabbalah of Nathan Neta Shapira of Kraków (1585-1633), by Agata Paluch, 2014 (volume 43).
  44. A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of Jewish Magic: MS New York Public Library, Heb. 190 (Formerly Sassoon 56), Introduction, Annotated Edition and Facsimile, by Gideon Bohak (volume 44), ספר כשפים יהודי מהמאה הט"ו כתב יד ניו יורק, הספריה הציבורית 190 (לשעבר ששון 56) מבוא, מהדורה מבוארת וצילום כתב היד מאת גדעון בוהק
  45. Human Self-Perfection: A Re-Assessment of Kabbalistic Musar-Literature of Sixteenth-Century Safed, by P Patrick B. Koch, (volume 45).
  46. Commentary to Sefer Yesira Attributed to R. Saadia Gaon, פירוש ספר יצירה המיוחס לסעדיה גאון, by Na’ama Ben-Shachar, (Volume 46)
  47. Bodily Rituals in Jewish Mysticism: The Intensification of Cultic Hand Gestures by Medieval Kabbalists, by Maurizio Mottolese (Volume 47).
  48. R. Jonathan Eibeschütz, And I Came this Day unto the Fountain, ואבוא היום אל העין , Critically Edited and Introduced by Paweł Maciejko, With Additional Studies by Noam Lefler, Jonatan Benarroch and Shai Alleson Gerberg, 2016 second revised edition (volume 48), 2016.
  49. Modern Kabbalah as an Autonomous Domain of Research: Lecture Delivered at the Ceremony for the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Scholarship at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities on the Anniversary of Gershom Scholem’s Birth December 9, 2014, by Jonathan Garb הקבלה בעת החדשה כתחום מחקר אוטונומי: הרצאה שניתנה בטקס הענקת הפרס בחקר הקבלה על שם גרשם שלום באקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים ביום הולדתו של גרשם שלום י"ז בכסלו תשע"ה, מאת יהונתן גארב (volume 49)

    Articles

  1. ‘The Shekhinah Prays Before God: A New Text Toward the Theosophic Orientation of the German Pietists and Their Method for the Transmission of Esoteric Doctrines’, Tarbiz 63 (1994), pp. 509-533 (in Hebrew). 'השכינה המתפללת לפני הקב"ה: מקור חדש לתפישה תיאוסופית בתורת הסוד של חסידות אשכנז ותפישתם לגבי מסירת סודות', תרביץ סג (תשנ"ד), עמ' 509-533
  2. ‘When was the "Introduction" to the Zohar Written, and Changes within Differing Copies of the Mantua Printing’, Asufot 8 (1994), pp. 211-226 (in Hebrew). 'אימתי חוברה ה"הקדמה" לספר הזוהר? ושינויים בטפסים שונים של ההקדמה שבדפוס מנטובה', אסופות ח (תשנ"ד), עמ' 226-211
  3. ‘"The Secret of Secrets": The Concept of the Divine Glory and the Intention of Prayer in the Writings of R. Eleazar of Worms’, Da'at 34 (1994), pp. 61-81 (in Hebrew). 'סוד כל הסודות: תפישת הכבוד וכוונת התפילה בכתבי ר' אלעזר מוורמס', דעת 34 (תשנ"ד), עמ' 81-61
  4.  ‘"The Unity of God" of R. Eleazar Ha-Darshan’, Qoves ‘al Yad 12 (1994), pp. 149-160 (in Hebrew). 'ספר הייחוד לר' אלעזר הדרשן', קבץ על יד יב (תשנ"ד), עמ' 160-149
  5. ‘The Boundaries of Divine Ontology: The Inclusion and Exclusion of Metatron in the Godhead’, Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994), pp. 291-321.
  6. ‘The Literary Emergence of Esotericism in German Pietism’, Shofar 12 (1994), pp. 67-85. (see below for other versions)
  7. ‘L’émergence de l’ésoterisme dans le piétisme allemand’, Pardès 19 (1993), pp. 117-133 (French version of ‘The Literary Emergence’. above)
  8. ‘Esoteric Writings in Ashkenaz and the Transference to Spain’, Mahanayim 6 (1993), pp. 94-103. (Hebrew version of ‘The Literary Emergence’, above). 'כתיבת הסודות באשכנז והמעבר לקבלה בספרד', מחניים 6, תשנ"ד, עמ' 103-94
  9. ‘The Evolution of the Intention of Prayer to the "Special Cherub": From the Earliest Works to a Late Unknown Treatise’, Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge 22 (1995), pp. 1-26.
  10. ‘Orality in the Kabbalistic School of Nahmanides: Preserving and Interpreting Esoteric Traditions and Texts’, Jewish Studies Quarterly 2 (1995), pp. 85-102. (expanded version later included in book: Kabbalistic Manuscripts)
  11. ‘Critical and Post-Critical Textual Scholarship of Jewish Mystical Literature: Notes on the History and Development of Modern Editing Techniques’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 1 (1996), pp. 17-71. (expanded version later included in book: Kabbalistic Manuscripts).
  12. ‘From Divine Shape to Angelic Being: The Career of Akatriel in Jewish Literature’, Journal of Religion 76 (1996), pp. 43-63.
  13. ‘From Germany to Spain: Numerology as a Mystical Technique’, Journal of Jewish Studies 47 (1996), pp. 85-101.
  14. ‘Special Angelic Figures: The Career of the Beasts of the Throne World in Hekhalot Literature, German Pietism and Kabbalistic Literature’, Revue des études juives 155 (1996), pp. 287-310.
  15. ‘Recent Translations of Kabbalistic Texts’, Henoch 18 (1996), pp. 197-204.
  16. ‘New Manuscripts to the "Book of Secrets" Compiled by R. Shem Tov bar Simha and the Sources He Possessed’, Asufot 10 (1997), pp. 49-70 (in Hebrew). 'כתובי-יד חדשים של ספר הסודות של רבי שם טוב בר שמחה והמקורות שהיו בידו', אסופות י (תשנ"ז), עמ' 49-70
  17. Abrams, Daniel and Bracha Sack. ‘Shelomoh Alkabez’; ‘Moshe ben Ya‘akov Cordovero’; ‘Yosef Taitzak’, by Daniel Abrams and Beracha Sack, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, Editors in Chief: R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 37, 175-176, 668.
  18. ‘New Study Tools From the Kabbalists of Today: Toward an Appreciation of the History and Role of Collectanea, Paraphrases and Graphic Representations in Kabbalistic Literature’, Journal pour les études de la Cabale: Revue Interdisciplinaire de recherche et d'information 1 (1997), pp. 1-7 (electronic journal, http://jec2.chez.com/artabrams.htm).
  19. ‘Traces of the Lost Commentary to the Book of Creation by R. Jacob ben Jacob ha-Kohen: An Edition of a Commentary to the Book of Creation Based upon the Earliest Kabbalistic Manuscripts’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 2 (1997), pp. 311-342 (in Hebrew). 'פירוש האבוד לספר יצירה לר' יעקב בן יעקב הכהן', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית ב (תשנ"ז), עמ' 342-311
  20.  ‘Ma'aseh Merkabah as a Literary Work: The Reception of Hekhalot Traditions by the German Pietists and Kabbalistic Reinterpretation’, Jewish Studies Quarterly 5 (1998), pp. 329-345.
  21. ‘A Neglected Talmudic Reference to Ma'aseh Merkavah’, Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge 26 (1999), pp. 1-5.
  22. ‘Defining Modern Academic Scholarship: Gershom Scholem and the Establishment of a New (?) Discipline’, Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 9 (2000), pp. 267-302.
  23. ‘The Dimensions of the Creator – Contradiction or Paradox? Corruptions and Accretions to the Manuscript Witnesses’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 5 (2000), pp. 35-53.
  24. ‘Presenting and Representing Gershom Scholem: A Review Essay’, Modern Judaism 20 (2000), pp. 226-243.
  25. ‘R. Eleazar ha-Darshan’s Commentary to the Book of Creation’, Alei Sefer 19 (2001), pp. 69-87 (in Hebrew). 'פירוש לספר יצירה לר' אלעזר הדרשן', עלי ספר יט (תשס"א), עמ' 87-69
  26. ‘Chapters from an Emotional and Sexual Biography of God: Reflections on God’s Attributes in the Bible, Midrash and Kabbalah’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Literature 6 (2001), pp. 263-286 (in Hebrew). 'פרקים בביוגרפיה הרגשית והמינית של הקב"ה: הרהורים על מידותיו של האל במקרא, במדרש ובקבלה', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית ו (תשס"א), עמ' 263­286
  27. ‘Fragments of Sefer Shakod of R. Samuel b. R. Qolonimus and the Doctrine of the Divine Glory of a Student of R. Eleazar of Worms’, Asufot 14 (2002), 217-241 (in Hebrew). 'ספר שקוד לר' שמואל בר קלונימוס ותורת הכבוד של תלמיד ר' אלעזר מוורמס, אסופות יד (תשס"ב), עמ' ריז-רמב
  28. ‘Knowing the Maiden Without Eyes: Reading the Sexual Reconstruction of the Jewish Mystic in a Zoharic Parable’, Da’at 50/51 (2003), pp. 487-511.
  29. ‘Isaak der Blinde’; ‘Eleazar Ben Judah von Worms’, Lexikon jüdischer Philosophen und Theologen, hrsg. Andreas Kilcher und Friedrich Niewöhner, J.B. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, (composed by author in English).
  30. ‘Some Phenomenological Considerations on the Account of Creation in Jewish Mystical Literature’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 10 (2004), pp. 7-19.
  31. ‘The Zohar as a Book: On the Assumptions and Expectations of the Kabbalists and Modern Scholarship’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 12 (2004), pp. 201-232 (in Hebrew). (later to be expanded as English article and further expanded version included in book: Kabbalistic Manuscripts) 'זוהר, ספר ו"ספר הזוהר": לתולדות ההנחות והציפיות של המקובלים והחוקרים', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית יב (תשס"ד) עמ' 232­201
  32. ‘"A Light of Her Own": Minor Kabbalistic Traditions on the Ontology of the Divine Feminine’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 15 (2006), pp. 7-29.
  33. ‘The Condensation of the Symbol “Shekhinah” in the Manuscripts of the Book Bahir’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 16 (2007), pp. 7-82. (expanded version later included in book: Kabbalistic Manuscripts)
  34. ‘Hypostatic Wisdom and Imitatio Dei: Kabbalistic Traditions of Attaining Wisdom’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 17 (2007), pp. 29-48.
  35. ‘A Critical Return to Moshe Idel’s Kabbalah: New Perspectives: An Appreciation, Essays in Honor of Moshe Idel, ed. Sandu Frunza and Mihaela Frunza, Cluj-Napoca: Provo Press, 2008, pp. 35-46.
  36. ‘The Invention of the Zohar as a Book: On the Assumptions and Expectations of the Kabbalists and Modern Scholars’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 19 (2009), pp. 7-142. (first published in shorter form in Hebrew, and much expanded third version included in book: Kabbalistic Manuscripts)
  37. ‘The Cultural Reception of the Zohar – An Unknown Lecture by Gershom Scholem from 1940 (Study, Edition and English Translation)’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 19 (2009), pp. 279-315.
  38. ‘Phenomenology of Jewish Mysticism – Moshe Idel’s Methodology in Perspective’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 20 (2009), pp. 7-146.
  39. ‘The Virgin Mary as the Moon that Lacks the Sun – A Zoharic Polemic Against the Veneration of Mary, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 21 (2010), pp. 7-56
  40. ‘The Reception and Editing of Kabbalistic Works by Students of Jewish Esotericism in Ashkenaz After the Appearance of the Kabbalah (Collectanea of Early Works in a Leipzig Manuscript Copied in 1429)’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 21 (2010), pp. 311-330. 'התקבלות ועריכת חיבורים קבליים אצל בעלי הסוד באשכנז לאחר הופעת הקבלה (ליקוטים של חיבורים קדומים מכתב יד לייפציג משנת קפ"ט)', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית כא (תש"ע), עמ' 330-311
  41. ‘Oedipal Anxiety in the Fraternal Rivalry between Jacob and Esau: A Psycho-Sexual Reading of an Anti-Christian Polemic in a Zoharic Passage’, Kabbalah 22 (2010) = Proceedings of the Monash University Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Zohar Symposium Held in Prato Italy, July 13-15, 2009, With Guest Editors Nathan Wolski and Merav Carmeli, pp. 9-32.
  42. ‘“Text” in a Zoharic Parable: A Chapter in the History of Kabbalistic Textuality’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 25 (2011), pp. 7-54.
  43. ‘Kabbalistic Paratext’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 26 (2012), pp. 7-24.
  44. ‘Metatron and Jesus – The Longue Durée of Rabbinic and Kabbalistic Traditions: An Eighteenth-Century Manual of Christian Proselytizing in German and Yiddish’, Kabbalah 27 (2012) = Kabbalah on the Margins: Transformations of Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Societies (Proceedings and Additional Studies from the Conference Held on February 2, 2010, At the Center for Jewish Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz), with guest editors, Nathaniel Deutsch and Jean Baumgarten, pp. 13-105  
  45. ‘Gershom Scholem and the Book Bahir’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 28 (2012), pp. 113-140 (in Hebrew) 'גרשם שלום וספר הבהיר', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית כח (תשע"ג), עמ' 140-113
  46. ‘The Becoming of the Hasidic Book’ – An Unpublished Article by Joseph Weiss: Study, Edition and English Translation’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 28 (2012), pp. 7-34. 
  47. ‘The Secret of the Upper and Lower Waters: An Unknown Work from Early Castilian Kabbalah’, And This is for Yehuda: Studies Presented to Our Friend, Professor Yehuda Liebes on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Maren Niehoff, Ronit Meroz and Jonathan Garb, Jerusalem 2012, pp. 311-325 (in Hebrew). 'סוד מים העליונים ומים התחתונים: חיבור לא ידוע מן הקבלה הקדומה בקשטיליה'' ספר היובל ליהודה ליבס, בעריכת יוהנתן גארב, רונית מרוז ומארן ניהוף, בהוצאת מוסד ביאליק ירושלים: מוסד ביאליק, תשע"ב, עמ' 327-312
  48. ‘The “Zohar” as Palimpsest – Dismantling the Literary Constructs of a Kabbalistic Classic and the Turn to the Hermeneutics of Textual Archeology’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 29 (2103), pp. 7-56
  49. ‘A Catalonian Kabbalistic Commentary to the Ten Sefirot from Early Thirteenth-Century Spain – Synoptic Edition, Translation and Detailed Commentary’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 30 (2013), pp. 7-63.
  50. Nineteenth-Century Precedents of Textual Scholarship of Kabbalistic Literature: Elyaqim Milzahagi’s Zoharei Raviah (Ms. Jerusalem NLI 4° 121), Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 31 (2014), pp. 7-25.
  51. ‘Divine Yearning for Shekhinah – “The Secret of the Exodus from Egypt”: R. Moses de León’s Questions and Answers from Unpublished Manuscripts and their Zoharic Parallels’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 32 (2014), pp. 7-34
  52. ‘Gershom Scholem as a Hebrew Poet’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 33 (2015), pp. 91-109 (in Hebrew). 'גרשם שלום כמשורר עברי', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית לג (תשעה), עמ' 109-91 .
  53. ‘Metatron, the Lesser Lord, the Angel Called Elohim – A Kabbalistic Treatise from Thirteenth-Century Castile: Text, Translation and Commentary’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 34 (2016), pp. 7-26 forthcoming.
  54. ‘The Earliest Manuscript of the Zohar – Ms. Vatican 202, Circa 1300: A Quote in Aramaic in the Name of R. Shimon bar Yohai in the ‘The Secret of Leverite Marriage’ and the Various Copyings of Zoharic Texts in the Manuscript’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 34 (2016), pp. 315-320 (in Hebrew) כתב היד הקדום ביותר של הזוהר : כתב יד וטיקן 202 משנת 1300 לערך; הבאה בארמית בשם ר’ שמעון בר יוחאי ב"סוד היבום" וההעתקות השונות של טקסטים זוהריים שבכתב היד', ‫ קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית לד (תשעו) 315-320
  55. ‘Divine Jealousy – Kabbalistic Traditions of Triangulation’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 35 (2016), pp. 7-54.
  56. ‘Gershom Scholem’s Methodologies of Research on the Zohar’, Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem, ed. Mirjam and Noam Zadoff, forthcoming
  57. ‘Sefer ha-Bahir, German Pietism, and the Origins of Kabbalah in the 12th-13th Centuries’, The Cambridge Companion to Kabbalah, ed. Elliot R. Wolfson (forthcoming).

    Book Reviews:

  58. Review of: Le Secret du mariage de David et Bethsabée, Texte hébreu introduction, traduction et notes de Charles Mopsik, éditions de l'Éclat, Combas 1994, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 1 (1996), pp. 278-282.
  59. Review of: Shirat ha-Roke'ah: The Poems of Rabbi Eleazar Ben Yehudah of Worms, Critical Edition with Commentary by Isaac Meiseles, Jerusalem 1993, 322 pp., Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 1 (1996), pp. 283-287.
  60. ‘Jewish Gnosticism’, Review of: Nathaniel Deutsch, The Gnostic Imagination - Gnosticism, Mandaeism and Merkabah Mysticism, Leiden, New York, Koln: E.J. Brill, 1995, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 3 (1998), pp. 219-223.
  61.  ‘A History of the Unique Cherub’: A Review Essay of Joseph Dan, "‘The Unique Cherub’ Circle; a School of Mystics and Esoterics in Medieval Germany" (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr – Paul Siebeck)’, Jewish Quarterly Review 90, 3-4 (2000), pp. 397-404.

    Encyclopedia Entries:

  62. New entries for second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, Detroit and New York 2007, ‘Bahir, Book of’, 3: 62-63; ‘Isaac the Blind’, 10: 51-
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