Article: The Book of Splendor.(The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, vol. 1)(Book review)

THE ZOHAR: PRITZKER EDITION, VOL. 1 translated by DANIEL C. MATT Stanford University Press, 584 pages, $49.95

DANIEL MATT'S LANDMARK translation of the Zohar from the original tongues into English is a tour de force of scholarship and linguistic imagination--in the service of heaven. It is also the necessary step to bring into plain view a text whose meanings have been hidden even from those equipped to sound out the words.

Sefer ha-Zohar--variously known as the Zohar, the Book of Radiance, or the Book of Splendor--is the central text of Jewish Kabbalah. Written by Moses de Leon (1250-1305), a Castilian Jew and member of a circle of Spanish kabbalists, ...

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