Zohar by Daniel Chanan Matt

Zohar by Daniel Chanan Matt

"Paulist Press deserves credit for adding this new dimension to interfaith dialogue." The Jewish Spectator Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment edited and translated, with an introduction by Daniel Chanan Matt, preface by Arthur Green So this story of Torah is the garment of Torah. Whoever thinks that the garment is the real Torah and not something else—may his spirit deflate! Zohar (c. 1280-1286) Zohar—"the book of Splendor, Radiance, Enlightenment"—has fascinated readers from its first appearance in thirteenth-century Spain until today. It is the major text of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. To assure the acceptance of his work within the Jewish community, a Spanish scholar named Moses de Leon claimed that Zohar was an ancient work of the school of the famous Rabbi Shim'on son of Yohai. It was not until our own century that critical scholarship demonstrated that the book's author was Moses de Leon himself. His mosaic of Scripture, Midrash, medieval homily, fiction, and fantasy presents what Professor Daniel Matt describes as "a challenge to the normal workings of consciousness [that] dares one to examine one's assumptions about tradition, God, and self." †

Daniel C.Matt is an internationally recognized expert on Jewish mysticism. He was Professor of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, for almost two decades. He's also taught at Stanford University and Jerusalem's Hebrew University. The Essential Kabbalah, Zohar: The Book of Illumination, Zohar: Annotated and Explained, and God and the Big Bang: Finding Harmony between Science and Spirituality are among his 10 publications. Matt is also the translator of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume One, which won the National Jewish Book Prize, as well as The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Two, which won the Koret Jewish Book Award alongside Volume One, and The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Three.

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ISBN 13	9780809123872
ISBN 10	0809123878
Title	Zohar
Author	Daniel Chanan Matt
Series	Classics Of Western Spirituality Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Paulist Press International,U.S.
Year published	1983-01-01
Number of pages	336
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