Light is Sown

In a pioneering monograph-length study of the theological journey of Moses ben Shemtov de León of Guadalajara--self-proclaimed "Light of the West" and presumed writer of the Zohar, the kabbalah''s crowning literary achievement--Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Phillip Brown reach bold new conclusions about the kabbalah''s prominence in medieval Castile. Through rigorous examinations of fragmentary te...