Daniel C. Matt is a leading authority on Jewish mysticism. For twenty years, he served as Professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also taught at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Matt is the author of The Essential Kabbalah (1995); God and the Big Bang (1996); and Zohar: Annotated and Explained (2002). He is also the translator of the first six volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition.
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"A monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought." - Koret Jewish Book Award, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volumes I and II "Daniel Matt's work is superior to any other available translation of the Zohar because of its superb poetic language, the exegetical contribution of its copious notes, and its superior underlying Aramaic text, which was specially prepared by Dr. Matt from numerous original Zohar manuscripts." - Moshe Idel, Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "A superbly fashioned translation and commentary that opens up the Zohar to the English-speaking world. The lucidity and overwhelming relevance of Matt's Zohar will provide both common and uncommon readers with access to a work capable of changing the consciousness of those who enter it." - Harold Bloom, Max Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University "A powerfully poetic rendition of this spiritual masterpiece ... Matt's new Zohar is a classic already in its first two volumes. The edition alone, or the translation alone, or the commentary alone would be a major contribution. The whole is a work of art." - Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Daniel Matt's new translation of the Zohar ... will quickly become the definitive and unrivaled English edition of one of the pre-eminent classics of world mystical literature." - The Jerusalem Report