Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment
Overview
This volume contains the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in thirteenth-century Spain by Moses de León, a Spanish scholar.
For a massive collection including over a hundred and twenty of the volumes in this series, see the Classics of Western Spirituality Bundle (126 vols.).
Key Features
- A primary text of classic Jewish Kabbalistic spirituality
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- Useful for studies of comparative religion
Top Highlights
“The son is not earthly Israel but its divine archetype, the central sefirah called Beauty of Israel” (Page 20)
“Zohar there is an implicit rejection of Christian belief and an affirmation of the faith of Israel.” (Page 18)
“The reader must interpret the symbolism and identify the corresponding sefirah.120” (Page 33)
“Ḥokhmah is called Beginning because Keter is eternal and has no beginning” (Page 34)
“sefirot. The Zohar rarely describes the entire sefirotic system.” (Page 33)
- Title: Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment
- Author: Daniel Chanan Matt
- Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
- Publisher: Paulist Press
- Print Publication Date: 1983
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 336
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Pentateuch › Commentaries--Early works to 1800; Cabala › Early works to 1800
- ISBNs: 0809123878, 9780809123872
- Resource ID: LLS:ZHRBKNLGHTNMNT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:13:03Z
Reviews
1 rating
Gregory Stone
10/7/2018
I am disappointed. It turns out that this is only selections from the Zohar - not the full text.
