Zohar

Zohar (Ibrani: זֹהַר, secara harfiah Gemilang atau Bercahaya) adalah suatu karya dasar dalam sastra Yahudi berpikiran mistik yang dikenal sebagai Kabbalah.^[1] Merupakan sekumpulan buku yang memuat komentari tentang aspek mistik dari Taurat (lima kitab pertama Musa) dan tafsiran skriptural sebagaimana pula materi mengenai Mistisisme, kosmogoni mitikal, dan psikologi mistikal. Zohar memuat diskusi mengenai hakekat Allah (dalam Yudaisme), asal mula dan struktur alam semesta, hakekat jiwa, penebusan dan hubungan Ego dengan Kegelapan dan "diri sejati" sampai "Cahaya Allah," dan hubungan antara "energi universal" dan manusia. Eksegesis alkitabiahnya dapat dianggap bentuk esoterik dari sastra Rabbinik yang dikenal sebagai Midrash, yang menjabarkan Taurat.

Penulisan

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.^[2]

Terjemahan Inggris

Zohar Pages in English, at ha-zohar.net, including the Introduction translated in English
Berg, Michael: Zohar 23 Volume Set- The Kabbalah Centre International. Full 23 Volumes English translation with commentary and annotations.
Matt, Daniel C., trans. Zohar: Pritzker Edition (7 vols. to date). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004-2012. (The first seven volumes of a projected 12-volume, comprehensively annotated English translation)
Matt, Daniel C. Zohar: Annotated and Explained. Woodstock, Vt.: SkyLights Paths Publishing Co., 2002. (Selections)
Matt, Daniel C. Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment. New York: Paulist Press, 1983. (Selections)
Scholem, Gershom, ed. Zohar: The Book of Splendor. New York: Schocken Books, 1963. (Selections)
Sperling, Harry and Maurice Simon, eds. The Zohar (5 vols.). London: Soncino Press.
Tishby, Isaiah, ed. The Wisdom of the Zohar: An Anthology of Texts (3 vols.). Translated from the Hebrew by David Goldstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Lihat pula

Referensi

^ Scholem, Gershom and Melila Hellner-Eshed. "Zohar." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 21. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 647-664. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale.
^ Beyer 1986: 38–43; Casey 1998: 83–6, 88, 89–93; Eerdmans 1975: 72.

Beyer, Klaus. "Aramaic language, its distribution and subdivisions." 1986. (from reference 2 above)
Tenen, Stan, "Zohar, B'reshit, and the Meru Hypothesis: Scholars debate the origins of Zohar," Meru Foundation eTorus Newsletter #40, July 2007
Blumenthal, David R. Three is not enough: Jewish Reflections on Trinitarian Thinking, in Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich, ed. T. Vial and M. Hadley (Providence, RI), Brown Judaic Studies:
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism, Geoffrey Dennis, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2007
Studies in the Zohar, Yehuda Liebes (Author), SUNY Press, SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion, 1993
Challenging the Master: Moshe Idel’s critique of Gershom Scholem Micha Odenheimer, MyJewishLearning.Com, Kabbalah and Mysticism
Scholem, Gershom, Zohar in Encyclopadeia Judaica, Keter Publishing
Scholem, Gershom, Kabbalah in Encyclopadeia Judaica, Keter Publishing
Margolies, Reuvein "Peninim U' Margolies" and "Nitzotzei Zohar" (Heb.), Mossad R' Kook
Luria, David "Kadmus Sefer Ha'Zohar" (Heb.)
Unterman, Alan Reinterpreting Mysticism and Messianism, MyJewishLearning.Com, Kabbalah and Mysticism
Adler, Jeremy, Beyond the Law: the artistry and enduring counter-cultural power of the kabbala, Times Literary Supplement 24 February 2006, reviewing: Daniel C Matt, translator The Zohar; Arthur Green A Guide to the Zohar; Moshe Idel Kabbalah and Eros.

Pranala luar

[1] Scholem, Gershom and Melila Hellner-Eshed. "Zohar." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 21. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 647-664. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale.

[2] Beyer 1986: 38–43; Casey 1998: 83–6, 88, 89–93; Eerdmans 1975: 72.

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