The Pritzker Zohar: [Volumes 1-8 (of 12)]

Matt, Daniel C.; Joel Hecker, Nathan Wolski (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 1503605310 / ISBN 13: 9781503605312

Published by Stanford University Press, 2004

About this Item

Partial set, volumes 1-8 of an eventual 12 volume set. From the personal library of noted scholar of Judaism and Islam, Joel Kraemer, with his pencil checks and occasional annotations to volumes 1, 6 and 7. All other volumes are entirely clean and sharp with crisp, clean DJ's.

Seller Inventory # 508596

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pritzker Zohar: [Volumes 1-8 (of 12)]
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1503605310
• ISBN 13: 9781503605312
• Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: VERY GOOD
• Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion

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Synopsis

To celebrate the completion of the twenty-year project to translate The Zohar, Stanford University Press is pleased to offer a complete set of all twelve volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition.

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in a lyrical Aramaic, the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah, features mystical interpretation of the Torah, from Genesis to Deuteronomy.

The Zohar: Pritzker Edition volumes present the first translation ever made from a critical Aramaic text of the Zohar, which has been established by Professor Daniel C. Matt (along with Nathan Wolski and Joel Hecker) based on a wide range of original manuscripts. Every one of the twelve volumes provides extensive commentary, appearing at the bottom of each page, clarifying the kabbalistic symbolism and terminology, and citing sources and parallels from biblical, rabbinic, and kabbalistic texts.

About the Author

Daniel C. Matt is a leading authority on Jewish mysticism. For twenty years, he served as Professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also taught at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Matt is the author of The Essential Kabbalah (1995), God and the Big Bang (1996), and Zohar: Annotated and Explained (2002). He is also the translator of the first nine volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition.Joel Hecker serves as Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Yeshiva University. Hecker is the author of Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah (2005) and the translator of Volume Eleven of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Nathan Wolski is the Liberman Family Lecturer in Jewish Studies with the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia. He is the author of A Journey into the Zohar: An Introduction to the Book of Radiance (2010), and translator of Melila Hellner-Eshed's seminal work, A River Flows From Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar (Stanford, 2009).