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Hi Bob,</div>
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Thanks for your response which makes total sense.</div>
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As a matter of fact, in the new version of the Toolkit</div>
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the term "Sacred scriptures" does not appear.</div>
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What we do have is "Religious works" in definitions which is vague.</div>
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A work that is held sacred by a religion and its followers, or a work that has a direct association with a sacred work.</p>
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Best, Heidi</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Robert M. TALBOTT <rtalbott@library.berkeley.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 25, 2021 7:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Heidi G Lerner <lerner@stanford.edu>; Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <heb-naco@lists.osu.edu><br>
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<div>Outside of the obvious sacred works, I think it's up to the individual library to decide what gets treated as a sacred work and what doesn't since there isn't an official list. For my money, the Zohar is not a sacred text. Important, intriguing, wrapped
in mystery and goof-ball Aramaic, and unmistakably one of Judaism's greatest hits, yes, but not sacred in a global sense the way the Bible, the Mishnah, the Talmud et al. are. LC agrees. Do a subject search in LC's catalog under "zohar" and you'll discover
that there are 265 instances of 63000 Zohar and only one 63000 Zohar $v Commentaries.
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<div>Still, we live in an age of "do what you feel" so whatever you decide is best for your library is in fact best for your library.</div>
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<div>My two cents.</div>
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I have a question: for purposes of correct application of LC Subject Heading Manual and RDA, is the Zohar considered a Sacred work.</div>
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