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Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676

Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676

Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi
Dweck, Yaacob
Scholem, Gershom

Paperback

JudaismHistoriography

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 0691172099
ISBN13: 9780691172095
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Oct 4 2016
Pages: 1072
Weight: 2.25
Height: 2.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 Ṣevi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Ṣevi 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 Ṣevi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived. A monumental and revisionary work of Jewish historiography, Sabbatai Ṣevi details Ṣevi'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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