A Guide to the Zohar

by Green, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9780804749077
• ISBN10: 0804749078
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Arthur Green is the Philip W. Lown Professor of Jewish Thought at Brandeis University.

Table of Contents

Diagram of the Ten Sefirot	ix
Preface	xi
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Prologue	3	(6)
2 The Kabbalistic Tradition: A Brief History Until the Zohar	9	(19)
3 Teachings of the Kabbalists:The Ten Sefirot	28	(35)
PART II WHAT IS THE ZOHAR?
4 The Zohar: Midrash on the Torah	63	(8)
5 The Zohar Narrative	71	(6)
6 Mysticism of the Zohar	77	(9)
7 The Zohar in Historical Context	86	(15)
PART III SELECTED THEMES WITHIN THE ZOHAR
8 Creation and Origins	101	(8)
9 Between Worlds	109	(7)
10 Evil and the Demonic	116	(6)
11 Torah and Revelation	122	(4)
12 The Commandments	126	(8)
13 Avodah: The Life of Worship	134	(11)
14 The Tsaddiq and the Life of Piety	145	(6)
15 The Jewish People, Exile, and Messiah	151	(8)
PART IV THE ZOHAR AS TEXT
16 Special Sections of the Zohar	159	(3)
17 The Question of Authorship	162	(7)
18 The Language of the Zohar	169	(5)
19 Editing and Printing of the Zohar	174	(4)
20 Influence and Canonization of the Zohar	178	(11)
Bibliography	189