Sabbatian Heresy

Author : Pawel Maciejko
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781512600537

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Sabbatian Heresy by Pawel Maciejko Pdf

The pronouncements of Sabbatai Tsevi (1626-76) gave rise to Sabbatianism, a key messianic movement in Judaism that spread across Jewish communities in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The movement, which featured a set of theological doctrines in which Jewish Kabbalistic tradition merged with Muslim and later Christian elements, suffered a setback with Tsevi's conversion to Islam in 1666. Nonetheless, for another hundred and fifty years, Sabbatianism continued to exist as a heretical underground movement. It provoked intense opposition from rabbinic authorities for another century and had a significant impact on central developments of later Judaism, such as the Haskalah, the Reform movement, Hasidism, and the secularization of Jewish society. This volume provides a selection of the most original and influential texts composed by Sabbatai Tsevi and his followers, complemented by fragments of the works of their rabbinic opponents and contemporary observers and some literary works inspired by Sabbatianism. An introduction and annotations by Pawe_ Maciejko provide historical, political, and social context for the documents.

Author : Ada Rapoport-Albert
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Elisheva Carlebach
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0231071914

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The Pursuit of Heresy by Elisheva Carlebach Pdf

Rabbi Moses Hagiz, one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, devoted his career to restoring rabbinic authority. His most prominent talent was as a polemicist, and he campaigned ceaselessly against Jewish heresy in an attempt to unify the rabbinate. During Hagiz's lifetime there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority, which the author argues was the result of migration and assimilation.

Author : Joseph Weiss
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909821866

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Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism by Joseph Weiss Pdf

A classic text for all those interested in Jewish religious developments in eastern Europe, this paperback has a new introduction locating Weiss's work in the context of contemporary scholarship and the current resurgence of hasidism.

Author : Gilad Sharvit,Willi Goetschel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110671582

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Canonization and Alterity by Gilad Sharvit,Willi Goetschel Pdf

This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions from antiquity to the 20th century. Chapters explore the role of heresy in the Hellenic period and Rabbinic literature; the significance of heresy to Kabbalah, and the critical and often formative importance the challenge of heresy plays for modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Freud, and Derrida, and literary figures such as Kafka, Tchernikhovsky, and I.B. Singer. Examining heresy as a boundary issue constitutive for the formation of Jewish tradition, this book contributes to a better understanding of the significance of the figure of the heretic for tradition more generally.

Author : Michael Terry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1768 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135941574

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Reader's Guide to Judaism by Michael Terry Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.

Author : Paul S. Fiddes,Günter Bader
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567218858

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The Spirit and the Letter by Paul S. Fiddes,Günter Bader Pdf

Paul's statement that 'letter kills but the spirit gives life' [2 Corinthians 3.6] has had an extraordinary impact on Christian thought through the ages. It has been read both as affirming the saving power of the new covenant in comparison to the old, and as a key to hidden, spiritual meanings in the text of scripture. It is, however, an ambiguous phrase, followed by a tangled story. This book explores the Pauline distinction both in its original context and in its aftermath in the early church, the Reformation and modern Biblical Studies. It then considers a postmodern reversal, where ideas of 'Spirit' are often seen as 'deadly' and the openness of the 'letter' or text as life-affirming, and draws conclusions for Spirit in the world.

Author : David Biale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674363329

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Gershom Scholem by David Biale Pdf

Through a lifetime of passionate scholarship, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) uncovered the "domains of tradition hidden under the debris of centuries" and made the history of Jewish mysticism and messianism comprehensible and relevant to current Jewish thought. In this paperback edition of his definitive book on Scholem's work, David Biale has shortened and rearranged his study for the benefit of the general reader and the student. A new introduction and new passages in the main text highlight the pluralistic character of Jewish theology as seen by Scholem, the place of the Kabbalah in debates over Zionism versus assimilation, and the interpretation of Kafka as a Jewish writer.

Author : Willem Styfhals
Publisher : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501731013

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No Spiritual Investment in the World by Willem Styfhals Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century, German writers, philosophers, theologians, and historians turned to Gnosticism to make sense of the modern condition. While some saw this ancient Christian heresy as a way to rethink modernity, most German intellectuals questioned Gnosticism's return in a contemporary setting. In No Spiritual Investment in the World, Willem Styfhals explores the Gnostic worldview's enigmatic place in these discourses on modernity, presenting a comprehensive intellectual history of Gnosticism's role in postwar German thought. Establishing the German-Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes at the nexus of the debate, Styfhals traces how such figures as Hans Blumenberg, Hans Jonas, Eric Voegelin, Odo Marquard, and Gershom Scholem contended with Gnosticism and its tenets on evil and divine absence as metaphorical detours to address issues of cultural crisis, nihilism, and the legitimacy of the modern world. These concerns, he argues, centered on the difficulty of spiritual engagement in a world from which the divine has withdrawn. Reading Gnosticism against the backdrop of postwar German debates about secularization, political theology, and post-secularism, No Spiritual Investment in the World sheds new light on the historical contours of postwar German philosophy.

Author : Jeremy P. Brown,Marc Herman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Sharon Flatto
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800345430

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The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague by Sharon Flatto Pdf

Sharon Flatto's comprehensive study offers the first systematic overview of the eighteenth-century Jewish community of Prague and the first critical account of the life and thought of its pre-eminent rabbinic authority, Ezekiel Landau. Her detailed analysis, firmly rooted in the historical and cultural context of the period, challenges the conventional portrayal of Landau as a staunch opponent of esoteric practices and reveals the centrality of kabbalistic thought in this key central European city.

Author : Rabbi Pinchas Taylor
Publisher : Mosaica Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781946351890

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A Jewish Guide to the Mysterious by Rabbi Pinchas Taylor Pdf

Modern science is the most accurate lens of reality that humanity has developed so far. Science is crucial to humanity’s health, safety, and development. Still, the lens of science only “sees” a thin slice of the totality of existence. Much of the human experience cannot be simply explained by standard quantifiable tests. Many people have become aware of the limits and shortcomings of scientific knowledge and have also realized that our perpetual hunger for spiritual understanding is real and undeniable. Many of us sense that there is something beyond. Throughout various periods of history and various cultures and societies, people have been interested in the mysterious and the paranormal. This yearning is rooted in the soul’s search for true spirituality. A Jewish Guide to the Mysterious, written by one of contemporary Judaism’s leading scholars and teachers, clearly explains classic Torah views on intriguing phenomena, such as dreams, astrology, time travel, alien life, reincarnation, ESP and auras, angels, demons, ghosts, and even such topics as the lost city of Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle. Read this fascinating book and be amazed.

Author : Joseph Dan
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Hasidism
ISBN : 0874412234

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The Teachings of Hasidism by Joseph Dan Pdf

Author : Heinrich Graetz
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605209494

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History of the Jews by Heinrich Graetz Pdf

A landmark work of Jewish history and a worldwide phenomenon when it was first published, this masterpiece of Jewish history was translated in multiple languages and instantly become the de facto standard in the field. German academic HEINRICH GRAETZ (1817-1891) brings a sympathetic Jewish perspective to the story of his own people, offering readers today an affectionate, passionate history, not a detached, clinical one. Backed by impeccable scholarship and originally published in German across 11 volumes between 1853 and 1875, this six-volume English-language edition was abridged under the direction of the author, and brought to American readers by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1891. It remains an important work of the study of the Jewish religion and people to this day. Volume V, subtitled From the Chmielnicki Persecution of the Jews in Poland (1648 C.E.) to the Period of Emancipation in Central Europe (c. 1870 C.E.), opens with an exploration of the condition of Jews in Poland before the persecution and the unique character of Polish Judaism, and continues through to a discussion of reform movements and the state of Judaism in the United States up to the time of the book's writing.

Author : Heinrich Graetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Jews
ISBN : HARVARD:HW4OLV

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History of the Jews by Heinrich Graetz Pdf