Racheli Haliva, Associate Professor at the Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies, School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University.

1999-2004 Undergraduate Studies: Philosophy (major) and Jewish Thought (major), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

2005-2009 MA Studies: Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

2009-2015 PhD, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

2015-2022          Co-director at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies – Jewish Scepticism and a Junior Professor, Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University of Hamburg, Germany                   

Area of Interests: Medieval Studies, Islamic Philosophy, Jewish Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Interpretation of the Bible, Ethics, Converts, Intra-Religious Polemics, Political Philosophy, Kabbalah, Intra-Religious Encounter, and Interfaith Dialogue.

Selected Publications:

Books:

2020          Isaac Polqar – A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew? Philosophy and Religion in Isaac Polqar’s ʿEzer ha-Dat and Teshuvat Apikoros, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.

Edited Books

2023          Averroism and Anti-Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought, Truth, Authority, Doubt, Racheli Haliva, Daniel Davies & Yoav Meyrav (eds.) Leiden & Boston: Brill (forthcoming, 2023).

2020          Moshe Idel, Abulafia and the early Maimonideans—Trends, Approaches, and Sceptical Strategies, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.

2019          Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond, Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, Emidio Spinelli, and Stephan Schmid (eds.). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.

2018          Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.

Articles:

2024          Allegorical Interpretation and Its Limits in Joseph ibn Kaspi’s Thought, Revue des études juives (accepted for publication)

2019           “The Mosaic Commandments—an Anti-Skeptical Approach in Jewish Averroism,” in: Falsafa. Yearbook for Islamic Philosophy of Religion, Ahmad Milad Karimi (ed.), 2019, 36-55.

2018          The Origin of the World – An Anti-Sceptical Approach in Medieval Jewish Averroism, in: Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Jewish Philosophy and Thought, Racheli Haliva (ed.), Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2018,130-145.

2018          Abner’s Double Standard Approach towards the Jewish Rabbis, Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2018, 222-227.

2017           “Isaac Polqar,” Entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2017. 

Contacts: Email: Racheli.haliva@email.sdu.edu.cn