ISBN: 9781904113966 - zohar: reception and impact (littman library of jewish civilization) (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: New. 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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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Zohar is one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books in Jewish culture. Many scholarly works have been dedicated to its ideas, its literary style, and the question of its authorship. This book focuses on other 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 different 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 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 the attribution of different qualities to the Zohar through time, and the people who were engaged in attributing such qualities and making innovations in cultural practices and rituals. For each historical period from the beginning of Zohar reception 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.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. National Jewish Book Awards Finalistfor the Nahum N. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship, 2016.From its first appearance, theZohar has been one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books inJewish culture. Many scholarly works have been dedicated to its mysticalcontent, its literary style, and the question of its authorship. This bookfocuses on different issues: it examines the various ways in which the Zoharhas been received by its readers and the impact it has had on Jewish culture,including the fluctuations in its status and value and thevarious cultural practices linked to these changes. This dynamic and multi-layered history throwsimportant new light on many aspects of Jewish cultural history over the lastseven centuries.Boaz Husshas broken new ground with this study, which examines of the reception andcanonization of the Zohar as well as its criticism and rejection from itsinception to the present day. His underlying assumption is that the differentvalues 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 differentcultural contexts. He therefore considers not only the attribution of differentqualities to the Zohar through time but also the people who were engaged inattributing such qualities and the social and cultural functions associatedwith their creation, re-creation, and rejection.For each historical period from the beginning of Zoharscholarship to the present, Huss considers the social conditions that stimulatedthe veneration of the Zohar as well as the factors that contributed to itsrejection, alongside the cultural functions and consequences of each approach.Because the multiple modes of the reception of the Zohar have had a decisiveinfluence on the history of Jewish culture, this highly innovative andwide-ranging approach to Zohar scholarship will have important repercussionsfor many areas of Jewish studies. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…