Dr Nathan Wolski - Researcher Profile

Biography

Nathan Wolski earned his Phd in Aboriginal Archaeology from the University of Melbourne in 2000. Following two years of study in Israel he shifted focus, and now researches the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, with a special focus on the Zohar, the central work of the classical Spanish Kabbalah. Nathan has translated the seminal work by Melila Hellner-Eshed, A River Flows From Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar (Stanford University Press, 2009), and is the author of A Journey into the Zohar: An Introduction to the Book of Radiance (SUNY Press 2010). He is the author of numerous studies focusing on the literary aspects of the Zohar and has co-edited two volumes of studies on the Zohar . Nathan is currently working on two volumes of the Zohar-Pritzker Edition (Stanford University Press), a critical edition, translation and commentary.

Qualifications

JEWISH EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP

Institution: Jerusalem, Mandel School, Jerusalem, Israel

Year awarded: 2002

TALMUD PROGRAM

Institution: Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

Year awarded: 2002

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ABORIGINAL HISTORY)

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2001

BACHELOR OF ARTS (NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY) - HONS

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1995

STUDIES IN BIBLICAL HISTORY & JEWISH THOUGHT

Institution: Hebrew University, Israel

Year awarded: 1992

Publications

Books

Wolski, N., 2010, A Journey into the Zohar, SUNY Press, United States.

Fagenblat, M., Landau, M., Wolski, N. (eds), 2006, New Under the Sun: Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics and Culture, Black Inc., Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Fagenblat, M., Landau, M., Wolski, N., 2006, Will the centre hold?, in New Under the Sun: Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics and Culture, eds Michael Fagenblat, Melanie Landau and Nathan Wolski, Black Inc, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 3-16.

Fagenblat, M.C., Wolski, N., 2004, Revelation Here and Beyond: Buber and Levinas on the Bible, in Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference, eds Peter Atterton, Matthew Calarco and Maurice Friedman, Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh USA, pp. 157-178.

Journal Articles

Wolski, N., 2009, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were walking on the way: El Caballero Andante and the Book of Radiance, Shofar (Ashland): An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies [P], vol 27, Purdue University Press, West Lafayette Indiana USA, pp. 24-47.

Wolski, N., 2009, The secret of Yiddish: Zoharic composition in the poetry of Aaron Zeitlin, Kabbalah (Culver City): journal for the study of Jewish mystical texts [P], vol 20, Cherub Press, Culver City USA, pp. 147-180.

Wolski, N., 2008, Mystical poetics: Narrative, time and exegesis in the Zohar, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, vol 28, issue 2, Indiana University Press, United States, pp. 101-128.

Wolski, N., Carmeli, M., 2007, Those who know have wings: Celestial journeys with the Masters of the Academy, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, vol 16, Cherub Press, Los Angeles, pp. 83-115.