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Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676
Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676
Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676
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Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676

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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 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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Release dateSep 20, 2016
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Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676

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    I like Scholem's matter of fact attitude: the evidence is Nathan of Gaza could read minds, very well, he could, but that did not make Sevi a true messiah.
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    Extensive and exhaustive, this is Scholem's masterwork on Sabbatai Sevi, a much-maligned pseudo-messianic figure in the (counter-)history of Judaism.

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