It’s all relative
Religious correctness poses as even-handedness in this sentence from Daphne Merkin’s article on the Kabbalah Centre in the New York Times magazine:
[Kabbala] has been looked on with suspicion and even hostility by some Jewish authorities since it first emerged, its lore codified in an ur-text known as the Zohar, the authorship of which some attribute to Moses de León in the 13th century and others to the sage Simeon ben Yohai in the second century.
True, “some” believe the Zohar is an artifact from the second century. But a truer formulation might be, “While the weight of critical scholarship attributes the Zohar to de Leon, traditionalists still insist it is the work of ben Yohai and was passed down through the centuries by his disciples.”
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