The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Six de Daniel Matt

The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Six: The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, cartea 6

Traducere de Daniel Matt

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 oct 2011

Analizând ediția Pritzker publicată de Stanford University Press, observăm un efort academic fără precedent în spațiul studiilor iudaice. The Zohar, volumul șapte, continuă misiunea începută de Daniel Matt de a oferi prima traducere în limba engleză realizată integral după un text critic în aramaică, reconstruit minuțios din manuscrise originale. Spre deosebire de versiunile anterioare care se bazau pe ediții tipărite adesea corupte, această serie restabilește rigoarea filologică necesară unui text de o asemenea complexitate.

Apreciem în mod deosebit structura acestui volum, unde comentariul exegetic ocupă un loc central la baza fiecărei pagini. Acesta nu doar că traduce termenii, dar decodifică sistemul complex al celor zece sefirot — etapele vieții interioare divine — transformând lectura dintr-o simplă parcurgere de text mistic într-o experiență de studiu profund. The Zohar nu este un tratat arid, ci se prezintă sub forma unui „roman mistic” în care Rabbi Shim'on bar Yohai și însoțitorii săi explorează dealurile Galileii, revelând straturi ascunse ale Torei.

Comparabil cu The Essential Zohar de Rav Yehuda Berg în ceea ce privește dorința de a face accesibile învățăturile cabalistice, volumul de față se distinge prin rigoarea academică și aparatul critic vast, fiind actualizat pentru cerințele cercetării contemporane. Dacă în The Essential Kabbalah, Daniel Matt oferea o introducere sintetică în misticismul evreiesc, în seria The Zohar: Pritzker Edition el livrează textul sursă în toată splendoarea sa arhaică, facilitând o înțelegere directă a modului în care figurile biblice devin proiecții ale dinamicii divine.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780804776639
ISBN-10: 0804776636
Pagini: 472
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 36 mm
Greutate: 1.05 kg
Ediția:Pritzker
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
Seria The Zohar: Pritzker Edition

De ce să citești această carte

Această ediție este esențială pentru cercetătorii iudaismului și pentru cei interesați de misticismul comparat. Cititorul câștigă acces la un text critic restaurat, beneficiind de explicații detaliate care transformă limbajul metaforic al Cabalei într-un sistem coerent de gândire. Este singura resursă care permite studiul Zoharului la un nivel academic, menținând în același timp frumusețea narativă a textului original.

Despre autor

Daniel Matt este unul dintre cei mai respectați specialiști contemporani în Cabala. Profesor și traducător de renume, Matt a dedicat peste două decenii proiectului monumental de traducere a Zoharului pentru Stanford University Press. Opera sa anterioară include lucrări de referință precum The Essential Kabbalah, tradusă în numeroase limbi, care a servit drept punte între mediul academic și publicul larg. Expertiza sa în aramaica medievală și în exegeza mistică i-a permis să identifice și să corecteze erorile de transmitere din manuscrisele istorice, oferind o perspectivă clară asupra tradiției esoterice evreiești.

Descriere scurtă

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of literature, comprising over twenty discrete sections. The bulk of the Zohar consists of a fascinating mystical commentary on the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy.

This sixth volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition completes the Zohar's commentary on the book of Exodus. Some of the volume focuses on the Dwelling (or mishkan) built by Moses and the Israelites in the Sinai Desert. The mishkan symbolizes Shekhinah, the feminine presence of God who "dwells" on earth. The construction of the mishkan is intended to ensure Her intimacy with the people—and especially with Moses, who is actually called Her husband.

The dramatic episode of the Golden Calf receives special treatment. The worship of the calf is seen as a rejection of Shekhinah. Normally, She would have restrained the wrath of God's masculine aspect and prevented Him from striking Israel; but having been rejected, She instead departed, leaving the people vulnerable. Whereupon the blessed Holy One hinted to Moses that it was up to him to defend Israel from divine destruction. By invoking the three patriarchs, Moses pinned God's arms, as it were, and immobilized Him, saving his people.

With the appearance of this volume, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition has reached its halfway point. The projected Volumes VII-IX will complete the Zohar's main commentary on the Torah. Volumes X-XII will include the Zohar's commentary on various other books of the Bible (such as Ruth and Song of Songs) as well as several independent compositions.

Recenzii

"Without Matt's clarifications in his running commentary at the bottom of every page, the mysteries that unfold from the rabbis' discussions would be too esoteric for my humble brain. Matt, [...], is an amazing decoder of the mysteries that the kabbalistic rabbis herein reveal."—Tim Boxer, 15 Minutes Magazine

"A monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought."—Koret Jewish Book Award

"A superbly fashioned translation and commentary that opens up the Zohar to the English-speaking world. The lucidity and overwhelming relevance of Matt's Zohar will provide both common and uncommon readers with access to a work capable of changing the consciousness of those who enter it."—Harold Bloom, Max Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University

"Daniel Matt's landmark translation of the Zohar . . . is a tour de force of scholarship and linguistic imagination. An English Zohar that sounds like literary Aramaic in the same way that Ezra Pound invented an English poetry that sounds like Chinese."—First Things

"Daniel Matt's work is superior to any other available translation of the Zohar because of its superb poetic language, the exegetical contribution of its copious notes, and its superior underlying Aramaic text, which was specially prepared by Dr. Matt from numerous original Zohar manuscripts."—Moshe Idel, Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Notă biografică

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 five volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition.

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“[Matt’s] text is the most authoritative English translation and the only English edition that goes directly to the source, unearthing many of the major surviving manuscripts of the original language.”—Library Journal
“Daniel Matt’s translation of, and commentary to, the Zohar is a powerfully poetic rendition of this spiritual masterpiece. It is a book to be studied, not read. As one who has pondered and taught the Zohar for many years, I found Matt’s interpretation learned, insightful, and very beautiful. Often, his translation and commentary changed my understanding of passages I thought I had already mastered.”—David R. Blumenthal, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Descriere

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This third volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition completes the Zohar's commentary on the book of Genesis. Here we find spiritual explorations of numerous biblical narratives, including Jacob's wrestling with the angel, Joseph's kidnapping by his brothers, his near seduction by Potiphar's wife, his interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams, and his reunion with his brothers and father.

Throughout, the Zohar probes the biblical text and seeks deeper meaning—for example, the divine intention behind Joseph's disappearance, or the profound significance of human sexuality. Divine and human realities intertwine, affecting one another.

Toward the end of Genesis, the Bible states: Jacob's days drew near to die—an idiomatic expression that the Zohar insists on reading hyperliterally. Each human being is challenged to live his days virtuously. If he does, those days themselves are woven into a garment of splendor; at death, they "draw near," enveloping him, escorting him to the beyond.

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged mysteriously in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of literature, comprising over twenty discrete sections. The bulk of the Zohar consists of a running commentary on the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy.