| Sabbatai Ṣevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 Contributor(s): Scholem, Gershom Gerhard (Author), Dweck, Yaacob (Introduction by), Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0691172099 ISBN-13: 9780691172095 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Kabbalah & Mysticism - Religion | Judaism - History - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 296.61 |
| Physical Information: 2.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (2.35 lbs) 1096 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |