R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, Yaacob Dweck, Gershom Gerhard Scholem

Sabbatai Ṣevi

The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676
Übersetzer: Werblowsky, R J Zwi

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1096
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 144mm x 73mm
• Gewicht: 1057g
• ISBN-13: 9780691172095
• ISBN-10: 0691172099
• Artikelnr.: 44678126

Autorenporträt

Gershom Scholem With a new introduction by Yaacob Dweck Translated by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky

Rezensionen

"Immensely important and fascinating. . . . A monumental work of historical scholarship, which recounts in minute detail a moving tragedy of vast dimensions."--The New York Review of Books