רשימת פרסומים פרופ' דניאל אברמס

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

 

Books

2.       The Book Bahir: An Edition Based on the Earliest Manuscripts, with an introduction by Moshe Idel, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1994 [Hebrew].

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 [Hebrew].

4.       Sexual Symbolism and Merkavah Speculation in Medieval Germany: A Study of the Sod ha-Egoz Texts, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1997.

5.       R. Judah the Pious’ Sefer Gematriot, introduced by Daniel Abrams and Israel Ta-Shema, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1998 [Hebrew].

6.       The Female Body of God in Kabbalistic Literature: Embodied Forms of the Love and Sexuality of the Divine Feminine, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005 [Hebrew].

7.       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 [Hebrew].

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].

 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 2014.

 

Editor of Journal

10.    Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, (hardcover, each volume, 300-450 pages); Avraham Elqayam co-editor, volumes 1-17; 32 volumes to date, 1996-2015

 

Book Series Editor

11.     ‘Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism’, Cherub Press, 44 volumes to date

Books Edited

12.    Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Moshe Idel, edited and annotated by Daniel Abrams, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1997.

13.    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 [Hebrew].

14.    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 [Hebrew]

15.     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.

16.    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].

 

Articles

17.     ‘When was the "Introduction" to the Zohar Written, and Changes Within Differing Copies of the Mantua Printing’, Asufot 8 (1994), pp. 211-226 [Hebrew].

18.    ‘"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 [Hebrew].

19.    ‘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 [Hebrew].

20.   ‘"The Unity of God" of R. Eleazar Ha-Darshan’, Qoves ‘al Yad 12 (1994), pp. 149-160 [Hebrew].

21.    ‘The Boundaries of Divine Ontology: The Inclusion and Exclusion of Metatron in the Godhead’, Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994), pp. 291-321.

22.   ‘The Literary Emergence of Esotericism in German Pietism’, Shofar 12 (1994), pp. 67-85.

23.   ‘L’émergence de l’ésoterisme dans le piétisme allemand’, Pardès 19 (1993), pp. 117-133 (French version of ‘The Literary Emergence’)

24.   ‘Esoteric Writings in Ashkenaz and the Transference to Spain’, Mahanayim 6 (1993), pp. 94-103. (Hebrew version of ‘The Literary Emergence’).

25.    ‘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.

26.   ‘Orality in the Kabbalistic School of Nahmanides: Preserving and Interpreting Esoteric Traditions and Texts’, Jewish Studies Quarterly 2 (1995), pp. 85-102.

27.    ‘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.

28.   ‘From Divine Shape to Angelic Being: The Career of Akatriel in Jewish Literature’, Journal of Religion 76 (1996), pp. 43-63.

29.   ‘From Germany to Spain: Numerology as a Mystical Technique’, Journal of Jewish Studies 47 (1996), pp. 85-101.

30.   ‘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.

31.    ‘Recent Translations of Kabbalistic Texts’, Henoch 18 (1996), pp. 197-204.

32.   ‘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 [Hebrew].

33.   ‘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.

34.   ‘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).

35.    ‘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 [Hebrew].

36.    ‘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.

37.    ‘A Neglected Talmudic Reference to Ma'aseh Merkavah’, Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge 26 (1999), pp. 1-5.

38.   ‘Defining Modern Academic Scholarship: Gershom Scholem and the Establishment of a New (?) Discipline’, Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 9 (2000), pp. 267-302.

39.   ‘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.

40.   ‘Presenting and Representing Gershom Scholem: A Review Essay’, Modern Judaism 20 (2000), pp. 226-243.

41.     ‘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.

42.   ‘R. Eleazar ha-Darshan’s CommentarytotheBook of Creation’, Alei Sefer 19 (2001), pp. 69-87 [Hebrew].

43.   ‘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 [Hebrew].

44.   ‘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 [Hebrew].

45.    ‘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.

46.   ‘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.

47.    ‘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.

48.   ‘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 [Hebrew].

49.   ‘"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.

50.    ‘The Condensation of the Symbol “Shekhinah” in the Manuscripts of the BookBahir’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 16 (2007), pp. 7-82.

51.     ‘Hypostatic Wisdom and Imitatio Dei: Kabbalistic Traditions of Attaining Wisdom’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 17 (2007), pp. 29-48.

52.    ‘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.

53.    ‘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.

54.    ‘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.

55.    ‘Phenomenology of Jewish Mysticism – Moshe Idel’s Methodology in Perspective’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 20 (2009), pp. 7-146.

56.    ‘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

57.    ‘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.

58.    ‘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.

59.    ‘“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.

60.    ‘Kabbalistic Paratext’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 26 (2012), pp. 7-24.

61.    ‘Metatron and Jesus – The LongueDurée 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  

62.   'Gershom Scholem and the Book Bahir', Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 28 (2012), pp. 113-140 [Hebrew]

63.   ‘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. 

64. ‘Gershom Scholem and the Book Bahir’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 28 (2012), pp. 113-140 [Hebrew].

‘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 (2013), pp. 7-60

65. ‘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 (2014), pp.7-63.

66. Daniel Abrams, ‘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.

 

67. ‘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 Texts31 (2014), pp. 7-34

Book Reviews

64.   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.

65.    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.

66.   ‘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.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

67.    New entries for second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, Detroit and New York 2007, ‘Bahir, Book of’, 3: 62-63; ‘Isaac the Blind’, 10: 51-52; ‘Mopsik, Charles’, 14: 470.