Senior Lecturer
חבר/ת סגל אקדמי בכיר
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Arts
74 - Helen Diller Family Center Floor 2 Room 214, Marcus Campus
Dr. Gal Sofer
Departments
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Ph.D. in Jewish Thought
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, Jewish Thought
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Post Doctorat in Jewish History
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, Jewish History
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About
גל סופר הוא מרצה בכיר במחלקה לאמנויות באוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב. מחקריו עוסקים בהיסטוריה אינטלקטואלית ותרבותית של מדע, מאגיה וקבלה משלהי ימי הביניים ועד ימינו, בתרבות היהודית והנוצרית ובשפות שונות. בעבודותיו כותב על מעברי ידע בין שפות באירופה, ויזואליזציה של ידע מדעי ודתי, וחקר כתבי יד נוצריים ויהודיים.The University bears no responsibility for the content displayed on this page or on any other faculty members’ pages. Full responsibility for the content rests solely with the faculty members themselves, who independently update and manage the information on their pages
Publications
Selected Publications:
1. Gal Sofer, Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories, Brill Academic Publishers (2025). ISBN: 978-90-04-54677-6.
2. Gal Sofer, Conjuring the Arab Magician: Intercultural Histories of Magic, Cambridge University Press (2026). ISBN: 978-1009547185.
3. Gal Sofer, ?The Jewish Reception of the Ars Notoria: Preliminary Insights into a Recent Discovery,? Religions 15 (2024), 1?21.
4. Gal Sofer, ?The Great Name: An Unknown Genizah-Fragment of Sefer HaRazim?s Tradition and Its Latin Recension,? Ginzei Qedem: Genizah Research Annual 20 (2024), 75?107.
5. Gal Sofer, ?Crooked Manners and Strange Figures: Visuality as a Tool for Constraining Demons,? Mabatim: Journal for Visual Culture 1 (2022), 77?100.
6. Gal Sofer, ?Wearing God, Consecrating Body Parts: Berengar Ganell?s Summa Sacre Magice and Shi?ur Qomah,? Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 16 (Winter 2021), 304?34.
1. Gal Sofer, Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories, Brill Academic Publishers (2025). ISBN: 978-90-04-54677-6.
2. Gal Sofer, Conjuring the Arab Magician: Intercultural Histories of Magic, Cambridge University Press (2026). ISBN: 978-1009547185.
3. Gal Sofer, ?The Jewish Reception of the Ars Notoria: Preliminary Insights into a Recent Discovery,? Religions 15 (2024), 1?21.
4. Gal Sofer, ?The Great Name: An Unknown Genizah-Fragment of Sefer HaRazim?s Tradition and Its Latin Recension,? Ginzei Qedem: Genizah Research Annual 20 (2024), 75?107.
5. Gal Sofer, ?Crooked Manners and Strange Figures: Visuality as a Tool for Constraining Demons,? Mabatim: Journal for Visual Culture 1 (2022), 77?100.
6. Gal Sofer, ?Wearing God, Consecrating Body Parts: Berengar Ganell?s Summa Sacre Magice and Shi?ur Qomah,? Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 16 (Winter 2021), 304?34.
