[Heb-NACO] Sacred work

[Neil Manel Frau-Cortes]

I think this is a great question, and probably the fruit of applying an
anglocentric category to a body of literature that doesn't match. We should
consider if anything we call *sifre kodesh* is actually a sacred text in
the spirit of the LC category.

That said, even inside of the sphere of *sifre kodesh*, I think that the
Zohar is major, called *Zohar ha-kadosh, *which is a qualificative we don't
find applied to many other rabbinic works. This brings me to the question:
what else is Sacred Texts in our cannon? Other than the Tanakh, should we
include the Talmud (Mishnah, Tosefta?)? I wouldn't include the midrash as a
number of rishonim, like Duran, consider it to be holy, yet "not to be
taken literally." Yet, the Zohar is midrashic in nature. It's all a
conundrum. If people are interested, perhaps we can talk more about that in
our RAS Cataloging Summer meeting, since the Winter's agenda is already
quite full.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:47 PM Heidi G Lerner via Heb-naco <
heb-naco at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a question: for purposes of correct application of LC Subject
> Heading Manual and RDA, is the Zohar considered a Sacred work.
>
> Thanks , Heidi
>
> Heidi G. Lerner
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