Daniel C. Matt

Daniel Chanan Matt (born 1950) is a renowned American scholar, author, and teacher of Kabbalah and the Zohar. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and served as a professor of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley for twenty years, while also teaching at Stanford University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Matt is the principal editor and translator of the acclaimed 12-volume Pritzker Edition of the Zohar and has authored books including The Essential Kabbalah and God and the Big Bang.