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

• Autore: Greenstein David <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.1/62
• Soggetto topico: Cabala; Mysticism - Judaism; Walking in literature; Jewish literature - Themes, motives
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Roads to Utopia
• ISBN: 0-8047-8968-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789035703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II