Elliot

Wolfson

Elliot Wolfson is Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His research interests include Jewish mysticism and philosophy; gender construction and the history of religion; symbolism and myth; and philosophical hermeneutics and the phenomenology of religious experience. Among his many publications are Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (1994); Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination (2005); and A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (2011). At the Center, Wolfson studies thirteenth-century theories of Incarnation in the mystical hermeneutics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.