~ Daphna Arbel, Jewish-Canadian scholar

Daphna Arbel is a Jewish-Canadian scholar, at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), Canada.

Biography

PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Associate Professor of Early Jewish Mysticism, Near Eastern Studies and Biblical Mythology at the Dept. of Classical, Near Estaern & Religious Studies.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Beholders of Divine Secrets: Myth and Mysticism in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature (2003 Arbel), book