Sabbatai Ṣevi The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Author:
- Gershom Scholem, Yaacob Dweck, R. J. Werblowsky
- ISBN:
- 9781400883158
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780691099163, 9780691018096, 9780691172095
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2017-09-26
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Copyright by:
- Princeton University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- History, Language Arts, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality