Sabbatai Sevi : The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676 Paperback / softback
by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Part of the Princeton Classics series
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Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination.
A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai ?evi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world.
Sabbatai ?evi was an obscure kabbalist rabbi of seventeenth-century Turkey who aroused a fervent following that spread over the Jewish world after he declared himself to be the Messiah.
The movement suffered a severe blow when ?evi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived.
A monumental and revisionary work of Jewish historiography, Sabbatai ?evi details ?evi's rise to prominence and stands out for its combination of philological and empirical authority and passion.
This edition contains a new introduction by Yaacob Dweck that explains the scholarly importance of Scholem's work to a new generation of readers.
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- Pages:1096 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:04/10/2016
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- ISBN:9780691172095
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:1096 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:04/10/2016
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- ISBN:9780691172095
