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Sabbatai 峁vi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626鈥�1676

    Introduction by
  • Yaacob Dweck
    Translated by
  • R. J. Zwi Werblowsky

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Sep 20, 2016
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2017
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15 b/w illus.
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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 峁vi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai 峁vi 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 峁vi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived. A monumental and revisionary work of Jewish historiography, Sabbatai 峁vi details 峁vi’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.