Jewish Culture and Creativity
Essays in Honor of Professor Michael Fishbane on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday
Jewish Culture and Creativity
honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life. The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.
Eitan P. Fishbane is Professor of Jewish Thought at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), and he specializes in the study of Jewish mysticism from medieval to modern times. Among his books are: As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist (Stanford, 2009); The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar (Oxford, 2018); and Embers of Pilgrimage(Panui Poetry Series, 2021). He is currently completing work on a new book, entitled Shabbat in Hasidic Thought: Sacred Time and Mystical Consciousnes.
Elisha Russ-FishbaneincludeJudaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times (Oxford, 2015) and Ageing in Medieval Jewish Cultur (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2022). He is currently at work on a book on Islam in the medieval Jewish imagination.
