Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire : : A History of the Book of Zerubbabel / / Martha Himmelfarb.
The seventh-century CE Hebrew work Sefer Zerubbabel (Book of Zerubbabel)-a tale of two messiahs-is the first full-fledged messianic narrative in Jewish literature. Martha Himmelfarb offers a comprehensive analysis of this rich understudied text, illuminating its distinctive literary features and the...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Text and Context
- 2. The Mother of the Messiah
- 3. The Messiah Son of David and the Suffering Servant
- 4. The Servant-Messiah beyond Sefer Zerubbabel
- 5. The Dying Messiah Son of Joseph
- 6. Sefer Zerubbabel after Islam
- Conclusion
- Appendix. Translation of Sefer Zerubbabel according to the Sefer Hazikhronot Manuscript
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index