The Division for Development and Public Relations     YEHUDA  LIEBES,  GERSHOM SCHOLEM PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF KABBALAH  Status : EMERITUS Birth place : JERUSALEM Office Phone: 02-588-3642 Fax: E-Mail: liebes@mscc.huji.ac.il U.R.L:   Department Faculty   JEWISH THOUGHT FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description   Academic Degree   Institution Year Ph.D. HEBREW UNIV. 1976   Academic Position   Year EMERITUS 2007 PROFESSOR 1993 ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1987 SENIOR LECTURER 1979 LECTURER 1976   External Academic Positions Guest Lecturer: Harvard Univ.; Univ. of Chicago Awards: E.M.E.T. Prize, 2006 (for Jewish Thought).   Research Interests Jewish mysticism; Kabbala. The development of Jewish myth, mysticism, poetry and creativity.   Research Projects 'Sefer Yetsira, the founding treatise of Jewish mysticism: The nature of Jewish myth and the ways of Jewish mythopoesis:   Selected Publications Publication Title   Year The power of a word as the basis for its meaning in Kabbalah. 2007 The disciples of the Wilner Gaon, Sabbateanism and the Pintele 2003 A Greek contribution to the faith of Abraham. 2002 Sabbatianism and the bounds of religion. In: 2001 Ars Poetica in Sefer Yetsira. Tel Aviv, Schocken, 380 pp. 2001 Zohar as Renaissance. 2001 God and His qualities. 2000 The novelty of R. Nahman. 2000 The love of God and His jealousy. 1994 Zohar and Eros. 1994 The myth of the Tikkun of the Godhead: The Zohar and Jonathan 1993 Towards a study of the author of Emek ha-Melekh : His 1993 Studies in Jewish Myth and Jewish Messianism. Albany, 1993 Studies in the Zohar. Albany, State University of New 1993 "Two Young Roes of a Doe": The secret sermon of R. Isaac Luria 1992 Golem reconsidered: A review of the book Golem by Moshe 1992 New trends in Kabbala research. 1992 The seven doubled letters BG"D KFR"T: On the doubled "Reish," 1992 From Bible to literature - On the literary creation of A. Deem. 1990 Shabbatean messianism. 1989 How The Zohar was written. 1989 The kabbalistic myth of Orpheus. 1988 Rabbi Solomon Ibn Gabirol's use of the Sefer Yetzira and 1987 New writing in Shabbatean Kabbala from the circle of R. Jonathan 1986   © All rights reserved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem