Daphna Arbel, scholar

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

Books

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

• And So They Went Out: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story (2010 Arbel / Cousland / Neufeld), book

Essays

• Seal of Resemblance, Full of Wisdom, and Perfect in Beauty: The Enoch/Metatron Narrative of 3 Enoch and Ezekiel 28 (2005 Arbel), essay / In: Harvard Theological Review 98 (2005) 121-142

• Elijah Lore and the Enoch/Metatron Narrative of 3 Enoch (2008 Arbel), essay / In: Aram Periodical - Alcohol 20 (2008) 59-76

• On Adam, Enoch, Melchizedek, and Eve (2012 Arbel), essay / In: New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (2012 Orlov, Boccaccini), edited volume, 431-453.