Sabbatai Ṣevi Sabbatai Ṣevi
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Sabbatai Ṣevi

The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Religion & Spirituality
RELEASED
2016
September 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
1,096
Pages
PUBLISHER
Princeton University Press
SELLER
Princeton University Press
SIZE
17
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