Roads to Utopia
Subtitle: The Walking Stories of the Zohar
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Feb 12, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780804788335
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar