Nathaniel Berman is the Rahel Varnhagen Professor in Brown University's Religious Studies Department.
His work emphasizes the mythological strands of kabbalah's formative period in 12th and 13th century France and Spain.
Pursuing his interest in "otherness," Berman has explored complex kabbalistic myths of the relationships between the divine and demonic realms.
In exploring these texts, Berman has used the methods of classical and modern rhetorical theory, as well as Freudian and poststructuralist psychoanalysis.
He began his teaching career as the Mellon Lecturer in Law and the Social Order at Amherst College.