Shmoel: While we assume today that the Zohar was authored by the Tanna R’ Shimon (though there are clearly pieces that are later additions as they quote people post-R’ Shimon Bar Yochai), the actual authorship of the Zohar was a controversy from the time R’ Moshe De Leon revealed it until today. (It was a very big controversy among the Gedolim in his time; then it died down for several hundred years as everyone assumed that it was really R’ Shimon. Now the academics call the authorship into question again, though very few Gedolim agree with them.)
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