Editing Zohar (section)

=== Zoharic Hebrew ===
The original text of the ''Zohar'', as cited by various early [[Kabbalah|Kabbalists]] beginning around the 14th century (e.g. [[Isaac ben Samuel of Acre|Isaac b. Samuel of Acre]], David b. Judah the Pious, [[Israel Alnaqua]], [[Alfonso de Zamora]]) was partly in Hebrew and partly in Aramaic.{{Efn|According to the view of Isaiah Tishby, the text was always in Aramaic but early Kabbalists sometimes translated quotations into Hebrew.}} By the time of the first edition (1558) the text was entirely in Aramaic,<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last=Neubauer |first=A. |date=1892 |title=The Bahir and the Zohar |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1450272 |journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=357–368 |doi=10.2307/1450272 |jstor=1450272 |issn=0021-6682}}</ref> with the exception of the ''Midrash haNe'elam'', where Hebrew words and phrases are often employed as in the [[Babylonian Talmud]]. "The Hebrew of the ''Midrash haNe'elam'' is similar in its overall form to the language of the early midrashim, but its specific vocabulary, idioms, and stylistic characteristics bear the imprint of [[medieval Hebrew]], and its midrashic manner is clearly that of a later imitation."<ref name=":7" />