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Author Giller, Pinchas

Title Reading the Zohar : the Sacred Text of the Kabbalah
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents Transliterations; Abbreviations; A Note on the Sefirot; 1 The Zohar and Its Commentators; 2 Sabba de-Mishpatim: Love and Reincarnation; 3 Hormanuta: A Zoharic Creation Tradition; 4 The Idrot: The Literary Tradition; 5 The Idrot: The Doctrine of the Countenances; 6 The Idrot: The Emanation of Divinity; 7 Reading the Idrot; Appendix: Idra Texts; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Comprising well over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism, or kabbalah, up to the thirteenth century. This massive work continues to provide the foundation of muchJewish mystical thought and practice to the present day. In this book, Pinchas Giller examines certaing sections of the Zohar and the ways in which the central doctrines of classical kabbalah took shape around them
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SUBJECT Zohar. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85368564
Zohar fast
Subject Cabala.
Cabala
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195353396
0195353390