Reading the Zohar : the sacred text of the Kabbalah / Pinchas Giller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giller, Pinchas, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala.

Zohar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

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 much Jewish mystical thought and practice to the present day. In this book, Pinchas Giller examines certain sections of the Zohar and the ways in which the central doctrines of classical kabbalah took shape around them.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-52972-5

1-4237-5990-7

0-19-535339-0

OCLC:

476011350