Zohar kebanyakan ditulis dalam [[bahasa Aram]] yang eksentrik. Bahasa Aram adalah bahasa sehari-hari di Israel pada zaman [[Bait Kedua]] (539 SM – 70 M), dan merupakan bahasa asli sebagian [[kitab Daniel]] dan [[kitab Ezra]], dan bahasa utama [[Talmud]].<ref>Beyer 1986: 38–43; Casey 1998: 83–6, 88, 89–93; Eerdmans 1975: 72.</ref>
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== Penemuan kembali ==
The Zohar firstpertama appearedkali inmuncul di [[SpainSpanyol]] inpada theabad 13th centuryke-13, anddan wasditerbitkan publishedoleh byseorang apenulis Jewish writerYahudi namedbernama [[Moses de Leon]]. De Leon ascribedmenyatakan bahwa penulis thekarya workitu toadalah [[Shimon bar Yochai]] ("Rashbi"), aseorang [[rabbi]] ofdari theabad 2nd centuryke-2 duringpada thezaman Romanpenganiayaan persecutionRomawi<ref name="jewcyclo">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Jacobs|first=Joseph|coauthors=Broydé, Isaac|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia|title=Zohar|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=142&letter=Z#406|accessdate=|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Company}}</ref> who,yang accordingmenurut to Jewishlegenda legendYahudi,<ref>{{cite book|last=Scharfstein|first=Sol|title=Jewish History and You II|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=uFuBCOzObf0C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=simeon+bar+yohai+cave+13+years&source=web&ots=4stAsWsEER&sig=C5d4vwiGMFzn92srw8NHAeqm-iE|accessdate=|series= Jewish History and You|year=2004|publisher = KTAV Publishing House|location=Jersey City, NJ, USA|isbn=|page=24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ou.org/chagim/lagbaomer/yochai.htm |title=Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai - Lag BaOmer at |publisher=Ou.org |date= |accessdate=2012-06-06}}</ref> hidbersembunyi indi asebuah cavegua forselama thirteen13 yearstahun studyingmempelajari theTaurat Torahdan anddiilhami was inspired by theoleh [[Prophetnabi]] [[ElijahElia]] tountuk write themenulis Zohar. ThisHal accordsini withsesuai thedengan traditionalklaim claimtradisional bypara adherentspenganut thatbahwa Kabbalah is the concealedadalah partbagian oftersembunyi thedari [[OralTaurat Torahlisan]].
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== Terjemahan Inggris ==
* [http://ha-zohar.net/ZOHAR_ENGLISH.htm Zohar Pages in English, at ha-zohar.net, including the Introduction translated in English]
