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Professor Jonathan Dauber holds a BA in Near Eastern and Judaic studies and ÐÔ°®ÌìÌà of ideas from Brandeis University and a PhD in Jewish mysticism from New York University. His areas of specialization are the various historical stages of Kabbalah as well as Eastern European Hasidism. Research interests include the emergence of Kabbalah as a literary tradition, the interplay of Kabbalah and Jewish philosophy, Jewish Messianism, and Jewish esotericism. He teaches courses covering the full range of the Jewish mystical tradition from late antiquity to the modern period at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.  He is author of Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah (Brill, 2012) and Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) and is currently working on Sefer ha-Bahir: Translation and Commentary, to be published by Stanford University Press.