Book Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (Princeton Classics) Gershom Scholem

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Physical Book

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Author

Gershom Scholem

Year

2016

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780691172095

Synopsis "Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (Princeton Classics)"

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 ?evi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai ?evi 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 ?evi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived. A monumental and revisionary work of Jewish historiography, Sabbatai ?evi details ?evi'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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Francisco JaraWednesday, July 22, 2020
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Excelente libro. El mejor estudio del tema. Mucha bibliografía adjunta.
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