
Prof. Avrahm Elkayam
CV
Education
1987-1991 |
P.h.D. |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jewish Philosophy |
1984-1986 | M.A. | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jewish Philosophy |
1982-1984 | B.A. | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry |
Employment at Bar-Ilan University
1995-2019 |
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Department of Jewish Thought, Senior Lecturer |
1988-1995 | Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Lecturer |
2015-2019 | Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Senior Lecturer |
2017-2019 |
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Associate Professor / Reader |
Academic and Administrative Services
2000-Current |
Director, Shlomo Mousaieff Center for Kabbalah Research |
2015-Current |
Head of Department of Jewish Thought, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan |
Community Service
2013-Current |
The J. R Elyachar Center for Studies in Sepharadi Heritage, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Member, Member of the committee for awarding the Zafraniaward |
2015-2015 |
The J. R Elyachar Center for Studies in Sepharadi Heritage, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Member, Member of the organizing committee for the International convention of the Book of Zohar |
Services to the Scientific Community:
Planning of a Scientific Conference in the Last 5 Years
2014 | National conference Maimonides: Philosophy, Science, and Medicine, Organizing Committee, Shlomo Mussaieff Center for Kabbalah Research and The Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center for Culture, Society and Education in the Sephardic Heritage, Bar Ilan University |
2015 |
National conference Go from your country: Spiritual journeys in religions, culture, and mysticism, the third Conference on Judaism, Spirituality and Myth, Organizing Committee, the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha'ananim |
Awards
2014 Shmuel Tolledano Prize, Misgav Center, Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Teaching Awards
01-Jan-2016, Excellency in Teaching (מצטיין מרצה)
Publications
List of publications
Edited Books
Elqayam, A. (2016). Conversos Bound by Messianic Ties: Theology, Philosophy and Messianism in the Writings of Abraham Miguel Cardozo. Ben Zvi Institute Press.
Elqayam, A., & Shlomi Mualem. (2016). Kabbalah, Mysticism and Poetry: The Journey to the End of Vision. Magnes Press.
Elqayam, A., & Yoseph Kaplan. (2016). Hide the Outcasts. Yad Ben Zvi.
Elqayam, A., & Haviva Pedaya. (2016). Flint Into a Fountain of Waters: Festschrift Book for Professor Moshe Halamich. Carmel Publishing.
Elqayam, A. (2018). A TRIBUTE TO HANNAH Jubilee Book in Honor of Hannah Kasher. Tel-Avive: IDRA PRESS (In Hebrew).
Elqayam, A. (2018). WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? Sciences | Philosophy | Mysticism. Tel-Avive:IDRA PRESS (In Hebrew).
Chapters in Books (Refereed)
Elqayam, A. (2015). The Voice of Silence: Between Speech and Silence in Prayers for Peace. In Elqayam, A., Rabbi Roberto Arbib, & Shaikh Ghassan Manasra (Eds.). Lord of Peace: A prayer Book for Peace According to Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition . Tel Aviv: Idra.
Elqayam, A. (2015). As a Lily Among Thrones: The Secret of the Rose as the Image of All Images in the Zohar'. In Elqayam, A., & S. Mualem (Eds.). Kabblah, Mysticism and Poetry: The Journey to the End of Vision . Jerusalem: Magnes Press. Elqayam, A. (2015). Preface. In Nissim Yosha (Ed.) . Captivated by Messianic Agonies:Theology, Philosophy and Messianism in the Thought of Abraham Miguel Cardozo.Ben-Zvi Institute for the Studies of Jewish Communities in the East and the Hebrew University.
Elqayam, A. (2015). Preface. In Avi Elqayam, Rabbi Roberto Arbib, & Shaikh Ghassan Manasra (Eds.). Lord of Peace: A Prayer Book for Peace According to Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition. Tel Aviv: Idra.
Elqayam, A. (2015). al-Fatihah: The Mystery of Opening in Jewish and Islamic Mysticism. In Haviva Pedaya (Ed.) . The East Write Itself . Tel-Aviv: Gome.
Elqayam, A. (2016). The Burden of Silence: Queen Esther as a Messianic Prototype of Fluid
Identity in Sabbatean Mythopoesis'. In Elqayam, A., & Y. Kaplan (Eds.). Conceal the Outcasts: Jews with Hidden Identities . Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute for the Studies of Jewish Communities in the East and the Hebrew University.
Elqayam, A. (2016). Foreword. In Elqayam, A., & Yosef Kaplan (Eds.). Conceal the Outcasts: Jews with Hidden Identities . Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute for the Studies of Jewish Communities, and Hebrew University.
Elqayam, A. (2016). On the Work of Moshe Hallamish. In Elqayam, A., & Haviva Pedaya (Eds.). The Flint into a Fountain of Waters, Studies in Kabbalah, Jewish Law, Custom and Philosophy Submitted to Prof. Moshe Hallamish . Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing.
Elqayam, A. (2016). Nudity, Seduction and Desire: The Return to Paradise Lost. In A. Elqayam, & H. Pedaya (Eds.). The Flint into a Fountain of Waters, Studies in Kabbalah, Jewish Law, Custom and Philosophy Submitted to Prof. Moshe Hallamish . Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing.
Elqayam, A. (2018). Formulating Judaism as a Philosophical Religion Ariel Malachi According to Hannah Kasher. In Elqayam, A (Eds.). A TRIBUTE TO HANNAH Jubilee Book in Honor of Hannah Kasher (pp. 19-22). Tel-Avive: IDRA PRESS (In Hebrew).
Elqayam, A. (2018). Translation as a Novel Space for Horizontverschmelzung between Judaism and Islam. In Elqayam, A (Eds.). A TRIBUTE TO HANNAH Jubilee Book in Honor of Hannah Kasher (pp. 55-118). Tel-Avive: IDRA PRESS (In Hebrew).
Journal Articles Refereed
Elqayam, A. (2014). Caves, Nudity and Death – On the Initiation of R. Shimon Bar Yohai as a Son of Heaven. Kabbalah (Culver City): journal for the study of Jewish mystical texts, 32, 69-92.
Elqayam, A. (2014). Nudity as Metaphor, Ritual and Rebellion in Medieval Sufi Mysticis. The Journal of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Association, 53, 34-58 (In Hebrew).
Elqayam, A. (2014). As Snake Sheds Old Skin: The Neoplatonic Meaning of Nudity in the Poetry of Ibn Sīnā. Daʽat: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, 76, 129-146 (In Hebrew).
Elqayam, A. (2016). Messiah be Ephraim between Judaism Christianity and Sabbateanism. Daat: Journal for Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, 82, 133-139.
Elqayam, A. (2016). The Ways in which the Medieval Hebrew Translations of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī's Mishkāt al-Anwār Shaped Jewish-Islamic Dialogue. DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah, 82, 159-210 (In Hebrew).
Elqayam, A. (2016). Therefore Love the Truth and Peace: Notes on Aviezer Ravitsky's Path in the Study of Jewisg Thought. Daʽat: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, 81, 9-17.
Elqayam, A. (2016). Images on Gravestones: Iconography and Messianism in the Cemeteries of Sabbatean Believers in Istanbul. Kabbalah (Culver City): journal for the study of Jewish mystical texts, 35, 267-306.
Elqayam, A. (2016). Liberating Nudity in Sabbateanism: Between the Messiah and His Prophet,. Kabbalah (Culver City): journal for the study of Jewish mystical texts, 34, 185-252.
Elqayam, A. (2018). The Metaphysical, Epistemological, and Mystical Aspects of Happiness in the Treatise on Ultimate Happiness Attributed to Moses Maimonides. Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, 26, 174-211.
Book Reviews
Elqayam, A. (2016). ʽMessiah ben Ephraim between Judaism, Christianity and Sabbateanism, Review of Nissim Yosha, Captivated by Messianic Agonies: Theology, Philosophy and Messianism in the Thought of Abraham Miguel Cardozo, Jerusalem 2015 [Hebrew]- Book review. DAAT: Journal for Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, 133-138.(In Hebrew).
Courses
course (Hebrew) |
03-115-01 |
Secret of the "Zohar" |
1 yearly course hours |
First semester |
course (Hebrew) |
03-016-01 |
Conceived visions of Safed |
1 yearly course hours |
Second semester |
Research
Messianism , Kabbalah, Mysticism, Sabbateanism
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