nation agog with vivid expectation and stampede it into disastrous Messianic movements. At times these calculations were so authoritatively delivered as to cause the migrations of whole communities to the Holy Land on anticipatory Messianic pilgrimages. Some of the pseudoMessiahs in Israel were as much the creatures of these "literary" Messianic speculations of the people as the up-thrusts of the untoward political conditions of their times. Too little attention has been paid to the rôle which the practice of "calculating the end" played in the successive Messianic movements from the first century onward. To trace the story of these Messianic calculations in Israel from the destruction to the Shabbetai Zebi movement, to analyze their method and technique, to point to their historic consequences, and also to disclose the consistent opposition to them throughout the centuries are the objects of this study. ERRATA Page 62. Line 14 should read 'nos. Page 65. Line 6 should read and belongs at the beginning of line 5. Page 87. Note 24 should read . Page 89. Line 26. Ibbur should read Gilgul. Page 189. Note 104 should read לסמטרי (Sarmatia) דומה כמו שגליתם כולכם ... ונשתעבדתם בע' אומות. Page 200. Note 25 should read xpóvovs TOÙS KALρOÙS. Page 220. Note 61 should read 1. |