Daniel Chanan Matt

DANIEL CHANAN MATT is a scholar of Kabbalah whose nine-volume annotated translation The Zohar: Pritzker Edition has been hailed as "a monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought." 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 was awarded the inaugural Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize for Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation. He holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and served for twenty years as Professor of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and has also taught at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Daniel lives in Berkeley, California.

Daniel Chanan Matt’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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