Yale University Program in Judaic Studies
presents
“Mystical Narrative and Theological Poetics: The Literary Craft of the Zohar”
Presented by
Dr. Eitan P. Fishbane
Associate Professor of Jewish Thought Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)
February 7th, 2019 4:30pm
With a Response by
Peter Cole
Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies and in Comparative Literature, Yale University
Dr. Eitan P. Fishbane is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought at The Jewish
Theological Seminary (JTS), specializing in the history and literature of Jewish
mysticism. Fishbane earned his Ph.D. and B.A., summa cum laude, from Brandeis University,
and he has served on the JTS faculty since 2006. He currently serves on the
Faculty Executive Committee and the Rabbinical School Council at JTS, and as Division Chair for
Jewish Mysticism at the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). Among his published works
are The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar (Oxford University Press, 2018) and As
Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Fishbane was a 2011 recipient of the Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American
Council of Learned Societies, and he was named a JTS Chancellor’s Fellow in 2015.
Lecture will be held at the
Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street, Room 208
New Haven, CT 06511
For additional information contact - Program in Judaic Studies
451 College St., Rm. 301
Phone (203)432-0843
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