Editor-in-Chief Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of many publications in the history of Jewish mysticism, including Through the Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (Princeton University Press, 1994), which won the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Category of Historical Studies, 1995 and the National Jewish Book Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 1995. In addition, he is the author of Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Hermeneutics, Myth, and Symbolism and Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism (both published in 1995 by State University of New York Press), Abraham Abulafia--Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy, and Theurgy (Cherub Press, 2000), Pathwings: Poetic-Philosophic Reflections on the Hermeneutics of Time and Language (Station Hill/Barrytown Press, 2004), Language, Eros, and Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and the Poetic Imagination (Fordham University Press, 2005), Venturing Beyond: Law and Ethics in Kabbalistic Mysticism (Oxford University Press, 2006), and Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, Death (University of California Press, 2006). Managing Editor Dana Hollander (McMaster University). Editors Catherine Chalier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris X - Nanterre. She is a contemporary philosopher and a leading scholar of modern Jewish philosophy, in particular Levinas. She has published extensively on modern philosophy and Jewish thought and many of her works have been translated in various languages. Robert Gibbs is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is currently preparing a book which examines the relation of law and ethics in contemporary Jewish thinkers (Commandment and Laws: Ethics and Laws in Contemporary Jewish Philosophy). He is the author of Correlations in Rozenzweig and Levinas (Princeton university Press, 1992) and Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities? (Princeton University Press, 2000). Irene Kajon is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. At present her research refers to the problem of humanism in philosophical and Jewish tradition. Her areas of interest are philosophical anthropology, moral and political philosophy, modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy. Among her books: Ebraismo e sistema di filosofia in Hermann Cohen (Padova 1989), Fede ebraica e ateismo dopo Auschwitz (Perugia 1993), Profezia e filosofia nel ‘Kuzari’ e nella ‘Stella della redenzione’. L’influenza di Yehudah Ha-Lewi su Franz Rosenzweig (Padova 1996), Il pensiero ebraico del Novecento. Una introduzione (Roma 2002; Engl. ed.: Contemporary Jewish Philosophy. An Introduction, London-New York 2005). Michael Zank trained in Protestant Theology, Judaic Studies, and Philosophy in Goettingen, Kiel, Heidelberg, and Jerusalem. He received his doctoral degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. He has written on the conflict between Judaism and modernity in the work of Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Strauss. Among his current research projects is a study of modern Jewish philosophy as a defense of revelation in the context of the European critique of religion. He serves as Associate Professor of Religion and Associate Director of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies at Boston University where he supervises the graduate program in Philosophy of Religion.

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