{"product_id":"roads-to-utopia-the-walking-stories-of-the-zohar-hardback-9780804788335","title":"Roads to Utopia; The Walking Stories of the Zohar (Hardback) 9780804788335","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRoads to Utopia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Walking Stories of the Zohar\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Greenstein (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804788335\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 February 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This thoughtful study adds another learned piece to readers' understanding of the Zohar, the most famous work in the history of Jewish mysticism . . . Recommended.\"—S. T. Katz, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"'Rabbi Hiyya and Rabbi Yose were walking on the road.' Traditional commentators ignore the \u003ci\u003eZohar's\u003c\/i\u003e narrative framework; in this fascinating book, David Greenstein refocuses our attention on this vital element. He demonstrates how the 'walking motif' enables the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e to address the mundane, to explore not just the 'sacred center,' but also its everyday periphery.\"—Daniel Matt, Editor and Translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Zohar, Pritzker Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e is a revered and much-studied work. Yet, surprisingly, scholarship on the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e has yet to pay attention to its most unique literary device—the presentation of its insights while its teachers walk on the road. In these pages, rabbi and scholar David Greenstein offers the first examination of the \"walking on the road\" motif.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreenstein's original approach hones in on how this motif expresses the struggles with spatiality and the everyday presented in the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e. He argues that the walking theme is not a metaphor for realms to be collapsed into or transcended by the holy, as conventional interpretations would have it. Rather, it conveys us into those quotidian spaces that are obdurately present alongside the realm of the sacred. By embracing the reality of mundane existence, and recognizing the prosaic dimensions of the worldly path, the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e is an especially exceptional mystical treatise. In this volume, Greenstein makes visible a singular, though previously unstudied, achievement of the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734618960152,"sku":"9780804788335","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/roads-to-utopia-the-walking-stories-of-the-zohar-hardback-9780804788335","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}