Sabbatai Sevi : The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 EPUB
by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
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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 Sevi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Sevi 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 Sevi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived. A monumental and revisionary work of Jewish historiography, Sabbatai Sevi details Sevi'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:20/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781400883158
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:1096 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:20/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781400883158