Sabbatai Ṣevi : : The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 / / Gershom Gerhard Scholem.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Scholem, Gershom Gerhard,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dweck, Yaacob.; Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Bollingen Series (General) ; 208
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1096 p.)

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 Ṣevi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Ṣevi 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 Ṣevi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived. A monumental and revisionary work of Jewish historiography, Sabbatai Ṣevi details Ṣevi'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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- Table of Transliteration -- Preface -- Introduction to The Princetion Classics Edition -- 1. The Background of The Sabbatian Movement -- 2. The Beginnings of Sabbatai Sevi (1626 - 1664) -- 3. The Beginnings of The Movement in Palestine (1665) -- 4. The Movement Up to Sabbatai's Imprisonment in Gallipoli (1665 - 1666) -- 5. The Movement in Europe (1666) -- 6. The Movement in The East and The Center at Gallipoli Until Sabbatai's Apostasy (1666) -- 7. After The Apostasy (1667 - 1668) -- 8. The Last Years of Sabbatai Sevi (1668 - 1676) -- Bibliography -- Index