Project Supervisors
Prof. Dr. Yuval Harari
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
apl. Prof. Dr. Gerold Necker
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Assistant Researchers
Dr. Eliezer Baumgarten
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
Dr. Uri Safrai
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
Dr. Vladislav (Zeev) Slepoy
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Maximilian de Molière, M.A.
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Student Assistants
Aaron Ohnesorge
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Chen Avizohar-Hagai
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
Project related publications
- E. Baumgarten, Y. Harari and U. Safrai, “Zacuto’s Alpha-Beta Shel ha-Shemot: Lexicality and the Kabbalah of Holy Names”, Daat (forthcoming) [Heb.].
- E. Baumgarten, Y. Harari and U. Safrai, “Commentary on a Few Names: On the Beginning of Zacuto’s Lexicon of Holy Names” (in preparation).
- E. Baumgarten and U. Safrai, “Rabbi Moshe Zacuto and the Kabbalistic Circle of Amsterdam,” Studia Rosenthaliana 46 (2020), pp. 29-49.
- E. Baumgarten and U. Safrai, “Moshe Zacuto and the Kabbalah of Divine Names”, M. Frenschkowski, Y. Harari, G. Necker (eds.), Magic and Language in Early Modern Europe, Wiesbaden (forthcoming).
- M. de Molière “R. Moses Zacuto’s Correspondence and the Transmission of Magical Knowledge,” in: M. Frenschkowski, Y. Harari, and G. Necker (eds.), Magic and Language in Early Modern Europe, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2021 [forthcoming].
- M. de Molière, V. Slepoy and G. Necker, Binding Letters: R. Moses Zacuto’s Halakhah, Correspondence, and Kabbalah in Perspective, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (forthcoming).
- G. Necker, “The Matrix of Understanding: Moses Zacuto’s Em la-Binah and Kabbalistic Works of Reference” European Journal of Jewish Studies [forthcoming] 2021.
- G. Necker, “Magic in Lurianic Contexts: Aspects of Affinity and Diffusion,” in: Magic and Language in Early Modern Europe, M. Frenschkowski, Y. Harari, and G. Necker (eds.), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2021 [forthcoming].
- G. Necker “The ‘Secret of the Creation of the Demons’: A Chapter in an Anonymous Lurianic Treatise Adapted by Moses Zacuto,” Jewish Studies 2 (2020), 93-112. https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/goldstein-goren/Pages/Journal.aspx