Sabbatai Ṣevi

The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676

von Gershom Scholem

1072 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Ratgeber Körper und Geist Mystik, Magie und alternative spirituelle Praktiken Ratgeber, Sachbuch
• ISBN: 9780691172095
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2016
• Größe: 221 x 144 mm
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Übersetzung: R J Zwi Werblowsky