The Sabbatean ProphetsHarvard University Press, 2004 M04 15 - 221 páginas In the mid-seventeenth century, Shabbatai Zvi, a rabbi from Izmir, claimed to be the Jewish messiah, and convinced a great many Jews to believe him. The movement surrounding this messianic pretender was enormous, and Shabbatai's mission seemed to be affirmed by the numerous supporting prophecies of believers. The story of Shabbatai and his prophets has mainly been explored by specialists in Jewish mysticism. Only a few scholars have placed this large-scale movement in its social and historical context. |
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... influence of two other great thinkers , the late Amos Funkenstein and Richard H. Popkin . My decision to pursue ... influenced deeply by my teacher , Michael Heyd . I attempted to place the movement in the context of widespread European ...
... influence of my teachers , Michael Heyd , Yosef Kaplan , Moshe Idel , and Richard Popkin , is obvious throughout . I can only aspire to their great wis- dom and style . While I never studied officially under David Ruderman , he has ...
... and they often retained vestiges of Christian ideas . Their influence on Shabbatai was marked : he spoke Spanish rather than Turkish , studied in Sepharadi yeshivot ( talmudic academies ) , and in his euphoric periods loved to 2 Prologue.
... influence of Saturn ( Shabbatai in Hebrew ) . Later the Sabbateans recast or " alpha- switched " these same qualities as positive and mystical , as the other face of Saturnine melancholia is genius and prophecy.7 The disorder appears to ...
... influence in the early modern world . It was a complex age , when messianism , prophecy , science , humanism , and mer- cantilism not only coexisted , but profoundly influenced one another and made logical bedfellows in the Baroque mind ...
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Messianic Prophecy in the Early Modern Context | 8 |
Messianism and Prophecy in the Jewish Tradition | 41 |
Nathan of Gaza and the Roots of Sabbatean Prophecy | 56 |
From Mystical Vision to Prophetic Eruption | 89 |
Opponents and Observers Respond | 130 |
Prophecy after Shabbatais Apostasy | 162 |
Notes | 173 |
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