Alex S. Kohav, PhD (Consciousness Studies and Religious Studies, Union Institute and University), is a philosopher, visual artist and a poet. He teaches at the Department of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and has previously taught at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Drawing on Husserl's phenomenology and close to a dozen other disciplinary approaches, Kohav's 2011 dissertation, The Sôd Hypothesis, establishes the new research area of ancient Israelite foundational mysticism of the First Temple era. He is also the editor of various other works on mysticism and ancient Israelite philosophy. He blogs at MosaicKabbalah.org.