God and His Son

Christian Affinities in the Shaping of the Sava and Yanuka Figures in the Zohar

Bibliographic Data

ID5349057
AuthorsJonatan M Benarroch (0000-0002-7676-8185, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume107
Issue1
Pages38-65
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Jewish Quarterly Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-6682 • E-ISSN: 1553-0604
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jqr.2017.0001
OpenAlexW2590755407
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

The main objective of this essay is to focus on the examination of Christian affinities in the shaping of the Sava and Yanuqa characters, and particularly on the close relations between the Yanuqa figure and that of Jesus. This analysis will be accomplished through a survey of various textual clues, which combined create a mosaic of Christian affinities which shaped the Sava and the Yanuqa characters, and reveal their complex and ambivalent attitude towards Christianity. Three of the Sava and Yanuqa stories, in which these figures reach their fullest development and the greatest degree of aesthetic and poetic refinement, will serve as the main texts to be examined in this essay: the Tay‘a (Donkey driver) story printed in the introduction to the Zohar (Zohar vol. 1, introduction, 2b–14b); the Yanuqa story printed in the Balak pericope (Zohar vol. 3, 186a–191b); and the Sava story printed in the Mishpatim pericope (Zohar vol. 2, 92a–114a)

Aesthetics · Affinities · Ambivalence · Archaeology · Christianity · Mosaic · Stereochemistry · Ancient Near East History · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Chemistry · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology

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