Reading the Zohar: A Sacred Text of Kabbalah

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Pinchas Giller (Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, University of Judaism)

Reading the Zohar

A Sacred Text of Kabbalah

Pinchas Giller (Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, University of Judaism)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 June 2000

Judaism: mysticism; Sacred texts; Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought

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 certaing sections of the Zohar and the ways in which the central doctrines of classical kabbalah took shape around them.

By: Pinchas Giller (Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies University of Judaism)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 552g
ISBN: 9780195118490
ISBN 10: 0195118499
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 June 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Reading the Zohar: A Sacred Text of Kabbalah

In Reading the Zohar, Giller (University of Judaism, CA), has succeeded in producing a work that will engage nonacademic readers while still making a substantial contribution to the scholarly study of Jewish mysticism. --Choice Pinchas Giller...has an exquisite mastery of both primary and secondary materials in the study of Kabbalah in general, and Zohar in particular....As Reading the Zohar unfolds, the centuries of ideological accretions are slowly separated out, and the reader comes to understand how Jewish mystical ideas developed over time and what implications those concepts had inside Jewish intellectual life. Yet, for all his mastery of academic texts, Giller writes plainly and clearly. --The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles