Sabbatai Sevi Scholem Gershom Gerhard
Sabbatai Sevi Scholem Gershom Gerhard Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. Sabbatai Ṣevi was an obscure kabbalist rabbi of…
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Sabbatai Sevi Scholem Gershom Gerhard
Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. 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. 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.
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. The movement suffered a severe blow when Ṣevi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived. This edition contains a new introduction by Yaacob Dweck that explains the scholarly
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