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  Zohar
According to Gershon Scholem, most of the Zohar was written in an exalted style of Aramaic that was spoken in Palestine during the second century of the modern era.
The fact that the Zohar was found by one lone individual, Moses de Leon, taken together with the circumstance that it refers to historical events of the post-Talmudical period, caused the authenticity of the work to be questioned from the outset.
Isaac evidently ignored the woman's alleged confession in favor of the testimony of Joseph ben Todros and of Jacob, a pupil of Moses de Leon, both of whom assured him on oath that the work was not written by Moses.
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 Tzvee Zahavy
The Traditions of Eleazar Ben Azariah, Scholars Press, Brown University Judaic Studies, no. 2, Missoula, 1977, xvi + 365 pp.
"Beruryah," "Joshua ben Hananiah," "Judah bar Ilai," "Meir," "Simeon bar Yohai," "Simeon ben Gamaliel," "Tarfon," "Yose ben Halafta." Articles for The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed.
Yohai; Men of the Great Assembly; Mezuzah (tractate); Money lending; Monogamy and polygamy; Nations, the seventy; New Moon; Noahides; Oil, use in Rabbinic Period; Partnership; Property, Rabbinic law for lost; Qal vehomer; Sale, Talmudic law of; Sefer Torah (tractate); She'iltot; Shofarot; Sick, visiting; Simeon Hatimni; Simeon b.
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 Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck
After he died in 1305, his wife said that he was the author.
The Zohar, written in a peculiar Aramaic and Hebrew, is a compilation of Kabbalistic texts placed in a dialog between Simeon ben Yohai and his disciples that is a mystical commentary on the Torah.
The ultimate principle is the infinite En-Sof that is hidden within the soul.
www.san.beck.org /AB21-Europe13thCentury.html   (23696 words)

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