is considered one of the foremost Jewish thinkers of his generation. He is a professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He received his Ph.D from Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988-1992 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. Moshe Halbertal has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, and at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Together with Avishai Margalit, he wrote Idolatry (1992) and People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority (1997). In Hebrew, he published Interpretative Revolutions in the Making (1997) and Between Torah and Wisdom: R Menachem ha-Meiri and The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence (2000). For this last book he received the 2001 Goldstein-Goren Book Award. His latest work is Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought (2007). Each fall he teaches at NYU Law School. [040609]