The Zohar: one book or a collection of texts?
The Zohar reached us as a layered written tradition. Translation opens its meaning; manuscripts reveal the history of its parts.
Which Zohar are you reading?
The Pritzker Edition is a specific scholarly translation project. Cite a volume and passage rather than treating the title Zohar as one uniform, undated text. Stanford University Press ↗
A manuscript is another object
The National Library of Israel record points to research on Vatican 202. A study of a witness and the witness itself serve different evidential roles. National Library of Israel / RAMBI ↗
Read layers without merging them
Separate traditional attribution, composition hypotheses, surviving witnesses, and modern translation decisions. Comparison begins with the exact passage and the textual layer it belongs to. Stanford University Press ↗