Sabbatai Ṣevi (eBook)

The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676

Gershom Scholem (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8315-8 (ISBN)

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Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century and the father of the academic study of Jewish mysticism. He was a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Yaacob Dweck is associate professor of history and Judaic studies at Princeton University. He is the author of The Scandal of Kabbalah (Princeton).

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series (General)
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Einführung: Yaacob Dweck
• Übersetzer: R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Allegory • Allusion • Antinomianism • Apostasy • Benveniste • Book of Leviticus • Chief Rabbi • Christianity • Consummation • Davidic line • Elijah • Elisha • enthusiasm • Epistle • Exaltation (Mormonism) • Excommunication • Exegesis • False Prophet • Gematria • God • Great Awakening • Great Tribulation • Haggadah • Hebrew language • Heresy • homily • Illustration • infidel • Isaac Luria • israelites • Jacob Emden • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish History • Jews • Judaism • Kabbalah • Ketuvim • Kohen • Law of Moses • Literature • Lurianic Kabbalah • maggid • Maimonides • Man of God • marrano • Mattathias • Messiah • Messiah in Judaism • Messianic Age • Messianic Judaism • messianism • Midrash • Mishnah • Moses Pinheiro • Muslim • Nathan of Gaza • Nisan • Pamphlet • Passover • Penitential • Persecution • piety • Poetry • Polemic • Preacher • premillennialism • Psalms • Purim • Rabbi • Rabbinic Judaism • rabbinic literature • Religion • religious text • Repentance • Responsa • Righteousness • Rite • Safed • Samael • Samuel • sect • Sefer (Hebrew) • Sephardi Jews • Sermon • Shekhinah • Society of Jesus • Solomon • Spirituality • Tammuz (deity) • Tefillin • Ten Lost Tribes • Theology • The Other Hand • The Physician • Tiqqun • Tisha B'Av • Torah • Writing • Yiddish • Zohar
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8315-6 / 1400883156
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8315-8 / 9781400883158