Interview with Zohar Shavit Lima, Lia Araujo Miranda de
Belas Infiéis,
07/2019, Volume:
8, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Zohar Shavit is a full professor in the School for Cultural Studies in Tel Aviv University, Israel. In 1978 she concluded her Ph.D under the supervision of Itamar Even-Zohar, with a dissertation on ...modernism in Hebrew poetry of the 1920s. Departing from the fundaments of Polysystems theory, the author has been presenting, since the 1980s, innovative reflexions in the field of children’s literature (CL), many of which regarding translation and international traffic of CL. Besides her best-known work, Poetics of Children's Literature (1986), Shavit has written an important group of academic articles and book chapters in which she deals with ambivalence in CL, with the need to formulate a poetics for its study, with the role of translations in the formation of Hebrew CL, with the phenomenon of cultural interference, with the canon.
Jonathan Even-Zohar (1982), tarih, kültürel miras, sivil toplum ve demokrasi alanında çalışan bir tarihçidir. Lisansüstü eğitimini Leiden Üniversitesi’nde tamamlamıştır. EUROCLIO - Avrupa Tarih ...Eğitimcileri Derneği’nde Direktör olarak görev yapmıştır. Bu süreçte Avrupa Birliği tarafından finanse edilen çok sayıda kıtalararası yüksek kaliteli işbirliği projelerini yürütmüş ve bu projelerde tarih eğitimcisi olarak görev almıştır. Kendini tarih düşünürü, sosyal yenilikçi ve topluluk oluşturucu olarak tanımlamaktadır.
In 1547, while in Venice, Guillaume Postel purchased a Zohar manuscript from Daniel Bomberg. That Zohar copy was the one he studied together with Mother Johanna and the one he used as the source for ...his Latin translation of this treatise. That Zohar copy has most probably not survived, and as a result, hitherto no information regarding its unique structure, contents or wording has been available. Fortunately enough we were able to use both the strategy of the ‘Zohar HaRaki’a’ project conducted by Ronit Meroz as well as the data accumulated in it; thus we could locate an almost identical cognate of that lost manuscript in MS Parma Palatina 2718. It is impossible to determine with certainty whether Postel’s original was copied directly or indirectly from MS Parma, or from a different source belonging to this family. In any event, as Postel’s Zohar manuscript itself is not accessible, it is henceforth possible to make use of MS Parma to offer us a Zoharic text which is almost identical, in both structure and wording, to Postel’s original.
This study explores the influence of peer group pressure on the spiritual intelligence of emerging adults aged 18 to 25. Spiritual intelligence, encompassing beliefs and practices related to ...existential reflection and moral righteousness, is crucial for navigating life's challenges. Peer pressure, the influence exerted by social groups, can shape individuals' beliefs and behaviours, including their spiritual inclinations. The study utilised convenience sampling to collect data from 234 participants through online surveys. The Spiritual Intelligence Self-report Inventory (SISRI 24) and Peer Pressure Questionnaire-Revised (PPSQ-Revised) were employed to measure spiritual intelligence and peer pressure, respectively. Statistical analyses including correlation and regression were conducted to explore the relationship between peer pressure and spiritual intelligence. Results indicate a significant negative correlation between peer pressure and spiritual intelligence, suggesting that increased peer pressure is associated with lower levels of spiritual intelligence. Regression analysis further confirms the significant influence of peer pressure on spiritual intelligence. These findings underscore the importance of understanding the complex interaction between social influences and spiritual development during the critical period of emerging adulthood.
Contemporary Zohar scholarship can boast two flourishing fields of research, each one predicated on a distinct methodological approach. The first is philological-historical, represented by scholarly ...attempts to solve the riddle of the Zohar's composition by analyzing its textual strata and components; the second is a literary approach that explores the poetic dimensions of zoharic literature. Here, Shasha demonstrates how combining these two approaches leads to new insights about zoharic literature. To this end, he will analyze a single zoharic story, which exists in two variant-versions. Uncovering the relationship between the story's two versions offers a rare glimpse into the reworking and editing of a zoharic text--how it was transformed from a short and simple narrative into a story rich in literary sophistication and thematic complexity. Studying these processes will shed further light on the literary mechanics of zoharic stories as well as the character of their textual development. The notion that the zoharic corpus was produced by multiple authors is a mainstay of contemporary Kabbalah scholarship.
This paper explores the structural similarities between Hegel's conception of spirit and the Jewish medieval text, the Zohar's, figuration of Shekhinah. The formal logic of spirit's ...self-actualization is historically exemplified by Shekhinah in her existence as divinity's indwelling presence in the world and her mythic embodiment of Jewish history. This study reads Shekhinah's journey towards union with God as analogous to spirit's passage towards absolute knowledge, a passage which concludes with what is often referred to as spirit's 'return to its elf.' Contrary to some popular interpretations of Hegel, spirit's return is an iterative, tautological return to itself as differentiated in itself. The discussion concludes with the claim that Shekhinah's eschatological journey towards harmonious reunion with God occurs through a proleptic movement in which biblical past and prophesied future, or the Jews's historically first and theoretically final redemption from exile, coalesce in a here and now in a similarly iterative manner which precludes it from a determinate, apocalyptic end.
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Few studies have focused on the Aramaic of the Zohar, and to this day, only one of these presents a completed grammatical analysis. Scholars have dealt at large, however, with the question ...of whether the Aramaic of the Zohar is artificial or not. I briefly review the history of the literature around this question, then propose my own criteria to examine whether a language of a given text is indeed artificial. Finally, I put this methodology into practice, as I investigate the nature of Zoharic Aramaic by examining specific linguistic phenomena in the relevant corpus.
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The article focuses on Guillaume Postel's Latin Zohar Commentary (1553), with the aim of uncovering a hitherto unknown influence of the medieval ʿIyyun Corpus on Postel's Kabbalistic ...thought. Following a prefatory methodological exposition it is demonstrated that in addition to the more common Kabbalistic doctrines, such as those of the Zohar and other central theosophical-Kabbalistic treatises, Postel was also influenced by a different trend of Kabbalah, namely, the anonymous thirteenth-century mystical corpus originating in Languedoc, designated in scholarship as the ʿIyyun Writings. A reliable analysis of Kabbalistic Christian writings requires acquaintance with the writers' sources, especially given the extent and divergence of medieval Kabbalistic literature. Therefore, we cannot make do with locating overt citations or references to known Kabbalistic treatises found in these writings, but also aim at uncovering covert Kabbalistic traditions which influenced them, as in the case of Postel and the ʿIyyun Corpus.
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