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Zohar: Reception and Impact

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AvBoaz Huss

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National Jewish Book Awards Finalistfor the Nahum N. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship, 2016.From its first appearance, theZohar has been one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books inJewish culture. Many scholarly works have been dedicated to its mysticalcontent, its literary style, and the question of its authorship. This bookfocuses on different issues: it examines the various ways in which the Zoharhas been received by its readers and the impact it has had on Jewish culture,including the fluctuations in its status and value and thevarious cultural practices linked to these changes. This dynamic and multi-layered history throwsimportant new light on many aspects of Jewish cultural history over the lastseven centuries.Boaz Husshas broken new ground with this study, which examines of the reception andcanonization of the Zohar as well as its criticism and rejection from itsinception to the present day. His underlying assumption is that the differentvalues attributed to the Zohar are not inherent qualities of the zoharic texts,but rather represent the way it has been perceived by its readers in differentcultural contexts. He therefore considers not only the attribution of differentqualities to the Zohar through time but also the people who were engaged inattributing such qualities and the social and cultural functions associatedwith their creation, re-creation, and rejection.For each historical period from the beginning of Zoharscholarship to the present, Huss considers the social conditions that stimulatedthe veneration of the Zohar as well as the factors that contributed to itsrejection, alongside the cultural functions and consequences of each approach.Because the multiple modes of the reception of the Zohar have had a decisiveinfluence on the history of Jewish culture, this highly innovative andwide-ranging approach to Zohar scholarship will have important repercussionsfor many areas of Jewish studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-05-12
Mått155 x 235 x 38 mm
Vikt368 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLittman Library of Jewish Civilization
Antal sidor392
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781904113966

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Boaz Huss is Professor of Kabbalah in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests include the Zohar and its reception, modern kabbalah, Western esotericism, and New Age culture. Professor Huss received his Ph.D. in the history of Jewish thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, after which he was a Fulbright post-doctoral fellow at Yale University. He has also been a Starr fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University. He is the author of two books on Jewish mysticism and kabbalah in Hebrew and editor of the English-language Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival.

Note on TransliterationIntroduction1 The Depiction of R. Simon bar Yohaiand Moses in Zoharic Literature 2 The Formulation of theIdea of the Book of the Zohar3 The Formation of theZoharic Canon4 The Authority of theBook of the Zohar5 On the History of theInterpretation of the Zohar6 Revelation andConcealment in the History of the Reception of the Zohar7 The History of the Criticism of The Book of the Zohar8 The Re-canonization ofthe Zohar in the Modern Era BibliographyIndex

Reviews ‘Painstakingly tracks the history of attitudes towards the Zohar and the types of arguments used for and against its acceptance . . . very readable. Highly recommended.'Daniel Schiede, AJL Reviews'Insightfully argues that the different values posited on the Zohar . . . often reveal much about the theological agendas and the spirit of the age in which these commentators lived. Huss brilliantly addresses not only the text of the Zohar but also the different communities of its disseminators along with their politics and ideological agendas . . . a tour de force, representing some of today's best scholarship. It is recommended for all academic libraries without reservation, but lay readers will also enjoy the thoughtful content.'D.B. Levy, ChoiceFROM REVIEWS OF THE HEBREW EDITION‘Knowing the history of the Zohar and its reception, one can better understand the spiritual and political worlds of Judaism as they have evolved over the past 700 years . . . Huss’s detailed descriptions and his impressive expertise make this a comprehensive account of mysticism as a cultural and economic phenomenon.’Mor Altshuler, Haaretz