Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676Princeton University Press, 20 sept. 2016 - 1096 pages 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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2 THE BEGINNINGS OF SABBATAI SEVI 16261664 | 79 |
3 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MOVEMENT IN PALESTINE 1665 | 175 |
4 THE MOVEMENT UP TO SABBATAIS IMPRISONMENT IN GALLIPOLI 16651666 | 305 |
5 THE MOVEMENT IN EUROPE 1666 | 441 |
6 THE MOVEMENT IN THE EAST AND THE CENTER IN GALLIPOLI UNTIL SABBATAFS APOSTASY 1666 | 599 |
7 AFTER THE APOSTASY 16671668 | 685 |
8 THE LAST YEARS OF SABBATAI SEVI 16681676 | 819 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 931 |
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