Daniel C. Matt

DANIEL C. MATT is a scholar of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism whose nine-volume annotated translation The Zohar: Pritzker Edition stands as his landmark achievement. His recent books include Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation, God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality and The Essential Kabbalah, translated into eight languages.

Matt received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and served as Professor of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley from 1979 to 2000, also teaching at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The Zohar: Pritzker Edition received a National Jewish Book Award and a Koret Jewish Book Award. Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation received the inaugural Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize.

Daniel lives in Berkeley, California.

Daniel C. Matt’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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