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Author Greenstein, David, 1951- author.

Title Roads to utopia : the walking stories of the Zohar / David Greenstein.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Studying the Zohar : a unique book and a unique motif -- Spatiality and the Zohar : places, spaces, and movement in and through them -- The dregs of tar -- Walking with God -- The spatial orientation of the Zohar -- The body wishes to walk -- The broad dissemination of Torah : "the Torah is not the heritage of only one place" -- Zoharic geographics -- Conclusion : the quotidian utopia of the Zohar.
Summary This is the first in-depth study of the 'walking motif' of the Zohar. The Zohar is unique among Jewish mystical texts in continuously introducing and punctuating its teachings with references to its mystical adepts' 'walking along the road'. By carefully cataloguing and analyzing the use of the walking motif, this study seeks to show that it expresses a concern of the Zohar that is surprising for a mystical text: to recognise the steady, if problematic, presence of a non-mystical dimension to reality, the domain of the mundane.
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Subject Zohar.
Zohar.
Cabala.
Cabala.
Mysticism -- Judaism.
Mysticism -- Judaism.
Walking in literature.
Walking in literature.
Jewish literature -- Themes, motives.
Jewish literature.
Themes, motives.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780804788335 0804788332 (DLC) 2013039097
ISBN 0804789681 (electronic book)
9780804789684 (electronic book)
9780804788335 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804788332 (cloth ; alkaline paper)