Pinchas Giller. Reading the Zohar: The Sacred Text of the Kabbalah. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xviii, 246 pp.

Pinchas Giller is one of the finest contemporary scholars of the zoharic corpus. His current study, Reading the Zohar, constitutes an excellent sequel to his earlier book, The Enlightened Will Shine. The Zohar certainly warrants the kind of thoughtful and serious reflection that Giller devotes to it...

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Main Author: Verman, Mark 1949- (Author)
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
In: AJS review
Year: 2005, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 171-173
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