Roads to Utopia : the walking stories of the Zohar / David Greenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenstein, David, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zohar.

Cabala.

Mysticism--Judaism.

Mysticism.

Walking in literature.

Jewish literature--Themes, motives.

Jewish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

As the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar is a revered and much-studied work. Yet, surprisingly, scholarship on the Zohar has yet to pay attention to its most unique literary device- the presentation of its insights while its teachers walk on the road. In these pages, rabbi and scholar David Greenstein offers the first examination of the ""walking on the road"" motif.Greenstein's original approach hones in on how this motif expresses the struggles with spatiality and the everyday presented in the Zohar. He argues that the walking theme is

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Zoharic Texts Discussed in This Study; Two Introductions; Studying the Zohar: A Unique Book and a Unique Motif; Spatiality and the Zohar: Places, Spaces, and Movement in and through Them; 1. The Dregs of Tar; 2. Walking with God; 3. The Spatial Orientation of the Zohar; 4. The Body Wishes to Walk; 5. The Broad Dissemination of Torah: "The Torah is not the heritage of only one place"; 6. Zoharic Geographics; Conclusion: The Quotidian Utopia of the Zohar; Appendix 1: The Walking Motif in the Zohar-A Listing of Texts; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804789684

0804789681

OCLC:

869641881