Sabbatai Sevi
the mystical Messiah, 1626-1676
- ISBN: 9780691172095
- Editorial: Princeton University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2016
- Lugar de la edición: New Jersey. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Princeton Classics
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 997
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
