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Authors: Arthur Green
ISBN-13: 9780804749084, ISBN-10: 0804749086
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Arthur Green

Arthur Green is the Philip W. Lown Professor of Jewish Thought at Brandeis University. A historian of Judaism and also a theologian, Professor Green is the author of a number of works on Jewish mysticism and Jewish spirituality.

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	Diagram of the Ten Sefirot
	Preface
Pt. I	Introduction
1	Prologue	3
2	The Kabbalistic Tradition: A Brief History Until the Zohar	9
3	Teachings of the Kabbalists: The Ten Sefirot	28
Pt. II	What is the Zohar?
4	The Zohar: Midrash on the Torah	63
5	The Zohar Narrative	71
6	Mysticism of the Zohar	77
7	The Zohar in Historical Context	86
Pt. III	Selected Themes within the Zohar
8	Creation and Origins	101
9	Between Worlds	109
10	Evil and the Demonic	116
11	Torah and Revelation	122
12	The Commandments	126
13	Avodah: The Life of Worship	134
14	The Tsaddiq and the Life of Piety	145
15	The Jewish People, Exile, and Messiah	151
Pt. IV	The Zohar as Text
16	Special Sections of the Zohar	159
17	The Question of Authorship	162
18	The Language of the Zohar	169
19	Editing and Printing of the Zohar	174
20	Influence and Canonization of the Zohar	178
	Bibliography	189

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