Toward the Millennium : : Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco / / Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen.

• Superior document: Numen Book Series ; Volume 77
• VerfasserIn: Schäfer, Peter, 1943-; Cohen, Mark R., 1943-
• TeilnehmendeR: Cohen, Mark R., 1943-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 77.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Diversity and Interaction: Messiahs in Early Judaism --; Messiahs and their Followers /; Messianic Elements in the Prechristian Greco-Roman World /; Midrash and Messianism: Some Theologies of Suffering and Salvation /; Armilus: The Jewish Antichrist and the Origins and dating of the Sefer Zerubbavel /; Jewish Messianic Expectations Towards 1240 and Christian Reactions /; The Eschatological Imperative: Messianism and Holy War in Europe, 1260-1556 /; The Millennial Moment: Revolution and Radical Religion in Sixteenth-Century spain /; Saturn and Sabbatai Tzevi: A New Approach to Sabbateanism /; The Engenderment of Messianic Politics: Symbolic Significance oF Sabbatai Ṣevi’s Coronation /; Salvation through Philology: The Poetical Messianism of Quirinus kKuhlmann (1651-1689 /; The Messianic Ciaim of Ghulām Aḥimad /; Messianism in the Political Culture of the Weimar Republic /; Lines, Circles, Points: Messianic Epistemology in Cohen, Rosenzweig and Benjamin /; The Lubavitch Messianic Resurgence: The Historical and Mystical Background 1939-1996 /; Patterns of the End: Textual Weaving from Qumran to Waco /; Index of Sources /; Index of Subjects /; Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /
• ISBN: 9004378995
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen.

This collection of 16 articles represents a selection of the papers delivered in the course of a seminar (1995-1996) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and its concluding joint symposium held at the Institute and Princeton University. Wide-ranging in scope, the volume covers messianic expectations from biblical times up to modern and contemporaneous adaptations, whereby the focus lies on the messianic concept within Judaism: diversity and variety of messianic expectations in antiquity; messianic movements at the time of the Crusades and around the fifth millennium (1240); the 'Pseudo'-Messiah Sabbatai Avi in the early modern period; the philosophers Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin with respect to their thinking about messianism as well as the Lubavitch movement. Also included are investigations on pagan Graeco-Roman writings and messianic strands in the medieval and baroque Christian context. The section on the modern period contains contributions dealing with the Ahmaddiyya movement in India, messianic currents in the socio-political culture of the Weimar Republic as well as certain messianic aspects in the very recent so-called Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas. The broad spectrum of stimulating analyses provides a fresh re-evaluation of an apparently timeless phenomenon.