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Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Daniel C. Matt, "The Zohar" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Description: Emerging some seven hundred years ago in Spain, the Zohar is considered 'the great medieval compendium of mysticism, myth, and esoteric teaching' and perhaps 'the highest expression of Jewish literary imagination in the Middle Ages' (from Arthur Green's Introduction, vol. 1, pg. xxxi). The twelve volume English translation and encyclopedic commentary on the Zohar: Pritzker Edition by Stanford University Press has become the authoritative and standard version for the English-speaking world--and the first 9 volumes were composed by Daniel C. Matt.Join us as we speak with Daniel Matt about the Zohar, Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance), a classi...