
Zohar Collector's Edition
Stanford University Press
Published on 20. February 2018
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277 pages
978-1-5036-0532-9 (ISBN)
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Description
This limited edition set includes all twelve volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Each volume is bound in tan- and butterscotch-colored cloth with foil stamping on the spine and blind stamping on the front. The volumes have been collected into four slipcases of matching tan cloth and blind stamping on each side of each case, with foil stamping on the back of the case and a ribbon for easy removal without damaging the book. Each book includes a letter-pressed and hand-numbered book plate, denoting the set number. Only 150 sets will be produced.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Cloth
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5036-0532-9 (9781503605329)
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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 the translator of the first nine volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition.Joel Hecker serves as Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Yeshiva University. Hecker is the author of Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah (2005) and the translator of Volumes Eleven and Twelve of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Nathan Wolski is the Liberman Family Lecturer in Jewish Studies with the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia. He is the author of A Journey into the Zohar: An Introduction to the Book of Radiance (2010), and translator of Melila Hellner-Eshed's seminal work, A River Flows From Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar (Stanford, 2009) and of Volumes Ten and Twelve of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition.