03028nam 2200649 450 991078903570332120230803201720.00-8047-8968-110.1515/9780804789684(CKB)3710000000086059(EBL)1604326(SSID)ssj0001113118(PQKBManifestationID)12433159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001113118(PQKBWorkID)11163293(PQKB)10838624(StDuBDS)EDZ0000886869(MiAaPQ)EBC1604326(DE-B1597)564936(DE-B1597)9780804789684(Au-PeEL)EBL1604326(CaPaEBR)ebr10832809(OCoLC)869641881(OCoLC)1198929966(EXLCZ)99371000000008605920140208h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRoads to Utopia the walking stories of the Zohar /David GreensteinStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (325 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-8833-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexAs 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 isCabalaMysticismJudaismWalking in literatureJewish literatureThemes, motivesCabala.MysticismJudaism.Walking in literature.Jewish literatureThemes, motives.296.1/62Greenstein David1951-1528145MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789035703321Roads to Utopia3771556UNINA