You clearly didn't read the book, either. And no, the introduction is not enough.
First of all, you're right. The Zohar was only written down in the 12-13th centuries and was an oral tradition previously. However, if you had read the book I referenced, you would have noticed this passage:
"Here too [with the discovery of the PGM] we can replace hostile outsider literature with primary insider sources"
revealing the Greek Magical Papyri as a syncretic Jewish text.
The PGM was used by Magi, who were of Jewish, Egyptian, Greek and even Persian origin. It wasnt "theft" nor was it racism, syncretism occurs when one culture or religion lives alongside another. You're confusing syncretism with appropriation, which it would be, if Jewish people didn't also practice this.
The Greek Magical Papyri itself, despite its name, originates in Egypt written by EGYPTIAN lector-priests and Jewish practitioners, not "racist Greeks" as you assumed based on the title, any scholar who's studied the PGM knows this, even Preisendanz who wrote the original translation. It incorporates a beautiful syncretism of Jewish, Egyptian and Greek belief that exemplifies the highly syncretic cultures of the time period and location.
As for your claims that Jewish magic is older, yes it is older than at least the later sources on goêteia like the PGM, but we are specifically discussing Kabbalah, a very specific type of Jewish practice that is FAR different than ancient Jewish 'magical' practices like we see from Babylon.
As for your claims of goêteia being newer, that is vastly untrue. Yes, the Greek Magical Papyri itself was written between the 100s BCE and the 400s CE, however goêteia was practiced as an oral tradition itself back to the Archaic Period of Greece, attested by writers like Homer. Much of goêteia itself doesn't even originate in Greece, rather, there was a complex syncretism between Egypt and Greece that occurred over a few thousand years. Even Herodotus, albeit not the best source, states that Greek religion was mainly "of Egyptian import."
There is another book you should try reading reaffirming the influences of goêteia as well as the later Pythagoreans and Gnostics onto Kabbalah,
Pythagoreanism and neo-platonic philososophy specifically being where we get ideas like the Tree of Life from, the concept of the universal spheres, which themselves have earlier origins in Mesopotamia.
Jewish scholar Rebecca Macy Lesses also writes on this, specifically stating how the PGM is an example of early Jewish magic:
In "How to Make a Magician: Kabbalah, Psychotherapy, and the Mechanics of Syncretism in Colette Aboulker-Muscat’s Waking Dreamwork" by Marla Segol, we can read this of Rebecca Macy Lesses:
This passage cites multiple Jewish scholars who are speaking on how early Judaism shared a cosmology with their neighbors, i.e the Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians.
Michael Shwartz notes that parallels to a Jewish magical passage can be found in Hellenistic (Greek) magic.
You are perpetuating Zionist BS claims of Judaism being a religion that has no outside influence or predecessors, which is entirely inaccurate no matter how you "feel" about that.
Much of Judaism was influenced by Babylonian and Egyptian beliefs, as they lived among each other for centuries. Even before that, Judaism formed from the Yahwists, a separatist group that broke away from the Caananite pantheon.
And ohno, look here, more of the book you didn't read explaining how Greeks and Egyptians aren't the only ones to synchronize Jewish belief, early Muslims did too:
Are you going to call them racist thieves, in addition to the Egyptians? Hm?
And oh look, MORE in the book you didn't read!
Quite literally a SCHOLOR OF KABBALAH stating how Kabbalists use THEURGIC SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE, Theurgy being a tradition that comes from goêteia. It is the same practice, the term "theurgy" only makes the distinction between magical practice for personal use vs getting closer to the divine.
Calling an Indigenous person "racist" for simply stating historical facts, then going on to call [who you assumed were Greek bc of your ignorance] Egyptians and Muslims "racist" thieves yourself is absolutely disgusting and again, ignorant.
Stop perpetuating Zionist ideals, and stop insulting the beautiful origins of Judaism. Just because Judaism had outside influences doesn't make it "bad" or "wrong" and certainly doesn't mean we should ignore them or re-write history.
It is NOT anti-Semetic to talk about the historic influences and origins of Judaism. Cope.
Before you get angry next time, try reading the cited text and actually studying the sources being discussed beyond a simple Google search yourself.
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