Kabbalah as Literature

This is a splendid and genuinely unprecedented book. How easy it is to overlook what should be one of the most conspicuous aspects of kabbalistic tradition: the sheer richness of its imaginative power, its poetry, its literary grandeur and strangeness. And Elbom is to be thanked for capturing so much of that in so economical a form. –David Bentley Hart, author of You Are Gods

Gilad Elbom’s Kabbalah as Literature provides a refreshing contemporary approach to kabbalistic texts. The author maintains fidelity to these texts’ basic narratives, while at the same time holding that only the individual reader’s radical openness to infinite layers of meaning can adequately reflect the Kabbalist’s infinite conception of the divine. –Sanford L. Drob, author of Kabbalah and Postmodernism

Bursting with creativity, the Kabbalah and this rich discussion of it will endlessly surprise readers. –Regina Schwartz, author of Toward a Sacramental Poetics

Gilad Elbom is a graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and the University of North Dakota. He is a senior instructor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University, the fiction editor of the North Dakota Quarterly, and author of Textual Rivalries: Jesus, Midrash, and Kabbalah (Fortress, 2022).