1st Edition

The Zohar in Moslem and Christian Spain

By Ariel Bension Copyright 1932
    292 Pages
    by Routledge

    292 Pages
    by Routledge

    ‘The Zohar’ was compiled and composed in Spain in the thirteenth century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettoes. In this book, first published in 1932, Dr Bension was the first scholar to deal with the influence on Jewish mysticism of certain characteristics which underlie so much of the literature produced in Spain both by Christians and Muslims.

     Part 1. Before the Exile  1. The Glorious Period of Jewish Life in Spain  2. The Spanish Mystics  3. Similarities in the Work of the Spanish Mystics of the Three Faiths, Jewish, Christian and Muslim  4. Further Similarities  Part 2. The Zohar  5. The Book of the Splendour  6. The Master, Simeon Ben Jochai  7. Legends Concerning Some of the Disciples of the Master  8. The Revelations Made to the Great Holy Assembly  9. The Revelations Continued  10. The Revelations Made to The Small Holy Assembly  11. The Revelations Concerning Paradise and Hell  12. The Vision of Rabbi Hiya After the Master’s Death  Part 3. After the Exile  13. The Hilulah of Simeon Ben Jochai as it is Celebrated Today  14. The Centres of Sephardi Mysticism After Leaving Spain  15. The Sephardi Mystics of Beth-El in Jerusalem

    Biography

    Ariel Bension