Daniel Abrams lectures on Jewish Mysticism in the Department of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University and is editor of Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts. In 2010, he was awarded the Gershom Scholem Prize for excellence in scholarship of Jewish mysticism. He is the author of numerous books and editions of Jewish mystical literature, which include: The Female Body of God in Kabbalistic Literature: Embodied Forms of the Love and Sexuality of the Divine Feminine; Sexual Symbolism and Merkavah Speculation in Medieval Germany; R. Asher ben David: His Complete Works and Studies in his Kabbalistic Thought and The Book Bahir: An Edition Based on the Earliest Manuscripts.