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Faculty
Yael Bentor
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.
Vajrayâna [Tantric Buddhism].
Buddhist meditations and practices.
Developments and transformation of Buddhist notions.
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
Religious Thought and Behavior in Late Antique and Byzantine Christianity.
Pilgrimage.
Monastic Culture.
Mysticism and Prayer in Greek and Syriac Literature.
Paula Fredriksen
Origins of Ancient Christianity.
Historical Jesus and late Second Temple Judaism.
Paul the apostle of Judaism.
Pagan, Jewish, and Christian Paideia, 1-5th centuries.
Ancient Gentile-Jewish relations in the Roman World.
Augustine of Hippo.
Yohanan Grinshpon
Indian Philosophy.
The Thought of the Yoga and the Upanishads.
Mahatma Gandhi.
Meaning of life.
Steven Kaplan
Social and religious history of medieval Ethiopia.
The history and literature of the Beta Israel (Falasha) community.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Indigenous transformations of missionary Christianity.
Amnon Ramon
The History of Jerusalem in the modern era.
Extreme Jewish groups in Jerusalem.
The Holy Places and Christians claims in the city.
Sharon Roubach
Christian Symbolism in Western Cinema.
Christian Collective Images in the Medieval West.
Serge Ruzer
Jewish Setting of Early Christianity.
Syriac Studies.
David Satran
Philo of Alexandria and the origins of Philosophical Religion.
Rhetoric and Persuasion in Late Antiquity.
Paideia and Scripture in early Christian Education.
Early Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation.
David Shulman
History of religion in South India.
Poetry and poetics in Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit.
Tamil Islam.
Dravidian linguistics.
Carnatic music.
Eviatar Shulman
Buddhist and Indian philosophy, religion, culture and literature.
Sara Sviri
Islamic Mysticism known as Sufism.
The Meeting Points of Islamic and Judaic Mysticisms.
Dreams, Imagination and Mystical Consciousness.
Meditative Practices,
coincidentia oppositorum,
unio mystica,
Teacher-Disciple Relationship.
Letter Mysticism and Performative Language.
Emeriti:
Shaul Shaked
Early Judaeo-Persian Language and Literature.
The Pahlavi Commentary on the Avesta.
Middle Persian Dictionary.
Aramaic Documents of the Achaemenian Period.
Zoroastrian Conception of Man.
Michael E. Stone
The development of apocryphal traditions in Judaism and Christianity.
Jewish Literature and Thought of the Period of the Second Temple, including the
Dead Sea Scrolls.
History of the Armenians in the Holy Land and Pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Armenian literature, particularly that deriving from and associated with the
Bible.
Armenian palaeography and Armenian epigraphy with a particular stress on the
Holy Land and Sinai.
Armenian manuscripts.
Guy G. Stroumsa
Gnosis, Manichaeism, esoteric trends and heresy in early Christianity.
Books and their roles in religions of late antiquity.
Contacts between Jewish and Christian mystical traditions.
The birth of the modern study of religion (16th-18th cent.).
The figure of Moses in the western tradition.
Raphael J. Z. Werblowsky
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