Temple Portals - Studies in Aggadah and Midrash in the Zohar

This monograph discusses the Zohar, the most important book of the Kabbalah, as a late strata of the Midrashic literature. The author concentrates on the 'expanded' biblical stories in the Zohar and on its relationship to the ancient Talmudic Aggadah. The analytical and critical examination of these biblical themes reveals aspects of continuity and change in the history of the old Aggadic story and its way into the Zoharic corpus. The detailed description of this literary process also reveals the world of the authors of the Zohar, their spiritual distress, mystical orientations, and self-consciousness.

About the author

Oded Yisraeli, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Report

"Il volume di Yisraeli è certamente pregevole non solo per i risultati a cui giunge, ma anche per una metodologia adottata particolarmente rigorosa e scientifica, per cogliere la struttura, lo scheletro e le caratteristiche culturali di un'opera che ha influenzato profondamente la spiritualità ebraica degli otto secoli successivi alla sua redazione e fino ad oggi, passando anche attraverso l'influsso della qabbalah pratica luriana del secolo XVI e quella degli ambienti del pietismo polacco dei secoli XVII e XVIII."
Mauro Perani in: Rivista Biblica 3 (2018), 522-526

Product details

• Authors: Oded Yisraeli
• Assisted by: Liat Keren (Translation)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Original title: Pitchai heichal. Iunei agadah u-midrash be-sefer ha-zohar
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783110439502
• ISBN: 978-3-11-043950-2
• No. of pages: 291
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 21 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 566 g
• Series: Studia Judaica; Studia Judaica; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism