Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines: Judaistik Zwischen Den Disziplinen : Papers in Honor of Peter Schafer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

Peter Schäfer,
born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany,
in 1943, is a leading scholar of rabbinic Judaism and early Jewish
mysticism. His impact on Jewish studies in Germany, Israel, and the United
States has been enormous. This collection of 29 essays by his students was
published in 2003 to celebrate his 60th birthday.

 “For Peter
Schäfer research and teaching are inseparably connected. He always found it
essential that students be introduced as early as possible to research work…

“The collected
essays in this volume encompass quite a variety of topics, whereby the
focal points in Schäfer’s own research is not difficult to recognize in the
themes chosen by his former students: mysticism and magic are most conspicuous,
followed by Rabbinic Judaism and the studies on the Middle Ages, the Early
Modern and the Modern Periods. Of note is also the fact that the methodological
approaches of these contributions are no less manifold than their themes.” –
from the Preface