Sabbatai Ṣevi

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 069101809X

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Sabbatai Sevi by Gershom Scholem Pdf

"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."--

Author : Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400883158

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Sabbatai Ṣevi by Gershom Gerhard Scholem Pdf

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.

Author : Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004462199

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The Feminine Messiah by Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Pdf

In The Feminine Messiah, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel explores the theosophical revolution that is reflected by the identification of the figure of King David and the image of the divine presence, the Shekhina, in medieval kabbalistic literature.

Author : Amelia M. Glaser
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804794961

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Stories of Khmelnytsky by Amelia M. Glaser Pdf

In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington. But in this campaign, the massacre of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries was the collateral damage, and in order to secure the tentative independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, ultimately ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, was he a liberator or a villain? This volume examines drastically different narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, and Polish literature, that have sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytsky's legacy, either as nation builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian national identity.

Author : David J. Halperin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789624847

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Sabbatai Zevi by David J. Halperin Pdf

Sabbatai Zevi stirred up the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century by claiming to be the messiah, then stunned it by suddenly converting to Islam. The story is presented here for the first time through contemporary documents, written by Sabbatai’s followers and by one of his detractors, in translations that brilliantly capture the vividness of this landmark episode in early modern Jewish history.

Author : Gershom Scholem,R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Sabbathaians
ISBN : 0691099162

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Sabbatai Sevi by Gershom Scholem,R. J. Zwi Werblowsky Pdf

Author : Jeremy P. Brown,Marc Herman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004460942

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Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism by Jeremy P. Brown,Marc Herman Pdf

Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah.

Author : Oliviu Felecan
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781622735570

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Onomastics between Sacred and Profane by Oliviu Felecan Pdf

Religiously, God is the creator of everything seen and unseen; thus, one can ascribe to Him the names of His creation as well, at least in their primordial form. In the mentality of ancient Semitic peoples, naming a place or a person meant determining the role or fate of the named entity, as names were considered to be mysteriously connected with the reality they designated. Subsequently, God gave people the freedom to name persons, objects, and places. However, people carried out this act (precisely) in relation to the divinity, either by remaining devoted to the sacred or by growing estranged from it, an attitude that generated profane names. The sacred/profane dichotomy occurs in all the branches of onomastics, such as anthroponymy, toponymy, and ergonymy. It is circumscribed to complex and interdisciplinary analysis which does not rely on language sciences exclusively, but also on theology, ethnology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, geography, history and other connected fields, as well as culture in general. Despite the contributors’ cultural diversity (29 researchers from 16 countries – England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, U.S.A., and Zimbabwe – on four continents) and their adherence to different religions and faiths, the studies in Onomastics between Sacred and Profane share a common goal that consist of the analysis of names that reveal a person’s identity and behavior, or the existence, configuration and symbolic nature of a place or an object. One can state that names are tightly connected to the surrounding reality, be it profane or religious, in every geographical area and every historical period, and this phenomenon can still be observed today. The particularity of this book lies in the multicultural and multidisciplinary approach in theory and praxis.

Author : John P. Meier
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300156027

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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume IV by John P. Meier Pdf

John Meier's previous volumes in the acclaimed series A Marginal Jew are founded upon the notion that while solid historical information about Jesus is quite limited, people of different faiths can nevertheless arrive at a consensus on fundamental historical facts of his life. In this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the series, Meier approaches a fresh topic-the teachings of the historical Jesus concerning Mosaic Law and morality-with the same rigor, thoroughness, accuracy, and insightfulness on display in his earlier works.

Author : Richard G. Marks
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271075471

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The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature by Richard G. Marks Pdf

Bar Kokhba led the Jewish rebellion against Rome in 132–135 A.D., which resulted in massive destruction and dislocation of the Jewish populace of Judea. In early rabbinic literature, Bar Kokhba was remembered in two ways: as an imposter claiming to be the Messiah and as a glorious military leader whose successes led Rabbi Akiba, one of the great rabbinic authorities of Jewish tradition, to acclaim him the Messiah. These two earliest images formed the core of most later perceptions of Bar Kokhba, so that he became the prototypical false messiah and the paradigmatic rebel of Jewish history. The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature is a history of the perceptions that later Jewish writers living in the fourth through seventeenth centuries formed of this legendary hero-villain whose actions, in their eyes, had caused enormous suffering and disappointed messianic hopes. Richard Marks examines each writer's account individually and in the context of its period, exploring particularly political and religious implications. He builds a history of images and looks at larger patterns, such as the desacralizing of traditional imagery. His findings raise timely political questions about Bar Kokhba's image among Jews today.

Author : Ada Rapoport-Albert
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800345447

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Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816 by Ada Rapoport-Albert Pdf

A timely and fascinating study of an early modern movement that transcended traditional Jewish gender paradigms and allowed women to express their spirituality freely in the public arena.

Author : John Freely
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000086249509

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The Lost Messiah by John Freely Pdf

The Lost Messiah is the astonishing story of Sabbatai Sevi, a 17th-century rabbi who through the mysticism of the kabbalah convinced vast numbers of Jews throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa that he was the long-awaited Messiah. Many of his followers were disappointed when he embraced Islam on threat of execution from the Turkish sultan, but many others continued to believe in him. Some of them even converted to Islam, creating the sect known as the Donme - outwardly Muslim, yet clinging secretly to Judaism. Today, a few Sabbatians still secretly hold true to their beliefs, patiently waiting for their Messiah to return and lead them to redemption; they believe that Sabbatai is not dead but merely hidden from human view, despite more than three centuries having passed since he left them.

Author : Gershom Scholem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Jews
ISBN : 069101809X

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Sabbatai S?evi by Gershom Scholem Pdf

Author : Moises Orfali
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781802071375

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Isaac Aboab da Fonseca by Moises Orfali Pdf

From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish community in the New World. This monograph on Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and his intellectual and spiritual contributions, includes discussion of his commentary on the Pentateuch entitled "Parafrasis Comentada sobre el Pentateuco".

Author : Cengiz Sisman,Cengiz Şişman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190698560

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The Burden of Silence by Cengiz Sisman,Cengiz Şişman Pdf

"This is the first comprehensive social, intellectual and religious history of the wide-spread Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the twentieth century, claiming that they owed their survival to the internalization of the Kabbalistic "burden of silence"--