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The Zohar: Reception and Impact (Hardcover)
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The Zohar: Reception and Impact (Hardcover)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Nahum N. Sarna
Memorial Award for Scholarship, 2016. From its first appearance,
the Zohar has been one of the most sacred, authoritative, and
influential books in Jewish culture. Many scholarly works have been
dedicated to its mystical content, its literary style, and the
question of its authorship. This book focuses on different issues:
it examines the various ways in which the Zohar has been received
by its readers and the impact it has had on Jewish culture,
including the fluctuations in its status and value and the various
cultural practices linked to these changes. This dynamic and
multi-layered history throws important new light on many aspects of
Jewish cultural history over the last seven centuries. Boaz Huss
has broken new ground with this study, which examines of the
reception and canonization of the Zohar as well as its criticism
and rejection from its inception to the present day. His underlying
assumption is that the different values 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 different cultural
contexts. He therefore considers not only the attribution of
different qualities to the Zohar through time but also the people
who were engaged in attributing such qualities and the social and
cultural functions associated with their creation, re-creation, and
rejection. For each historical period from the beginning of Zohar
scholarship to the present, Huss considers the social conditions
that stimulated the veneration of the Zohar as well as the factors
that contributed to its rejection, alongside the cultural functions
and consequences of each approach. Because the multiple modes of
the reception of the Zohar have had a decisive influence on the
history of Jewish culture, this highly innovative and wide-ranging
approach to Zohar scholarship will have important repercussions for
many areas of Jewish studies.
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