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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465269003321

Autore

Giller Pinchas <1953->

Titolo

Reading the Zohar [[electronic resource] ] : the sacred text of the Kabbalah / / Pinchas Giller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-280-52972-5

1-4237-5990-7

0-19-535339-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

296.1/62

Soggetti

Cabala

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.