Rutgers Rabbinics Conference 2025

Sela, Gal

  • Identity: she/her
  • Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
  • School: Beyond Canon: Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Regensburg

  • Dr. Gal Sela is a literature scholar focusing on the intersections of religious practices and mysticism in rabbinic literature. Her comparative research explores the figure of the holy man in both monastic and rabbinic traditions, as well as ascetic and theurgic practices in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship between magic and religion. Dr. Sela is a research fellow at Beyond Canon: Centre for Advanced Study, Universität Regensburg, where she contributes to studying para-canonical religious texts.
  • Abstract: Theorizing Rabbinic Folklore: The Miraculous Sleep of the Holy Man

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