Moshe Halbertal is a Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and the Gruss Professor at NYU Law School. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1989, and was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1988-1992. He served as a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School at University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is author of Idolatry (with Avishai Margalit), People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority, Interpretative Revolutions in the Making, Between Torah and Wisdom: R. Menachem ha-Meiri and The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence, and By Way of Truth: Nahmanides and the Creation of Tradition. His latest book is Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and Its Philosophical Implications, published by Princeton University Press in 2007. Halbertal is the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschild foundation and the Goren Goldstein award for the best book in Jewish Thought in the years 1997-2000.