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Essential papers on messianic movements and personalities in Jewish history
Publisher: New York University Press, 1992
ISBN-10: 0-8147-7943-3 (Paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-7943-9 (Paper)
Subject headings: Jewish messianic movements -- History.
Publisher: New York University Press, 1992
ISBN-10: 0-8147-7943-3 (Paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-7943-9 (Paper)
Subject headings: Jewish messianic movements -- History.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction (Marc Saperstein)
I. Overviews
1. Messianism in Jewish History (R. J. Zwi Werblowsky)
2. Jewish Messianism: Metamorphoses of an Idea (Eliezer Schweid)
II. The Late Second Commonwealth Period
3. Messiahs: Robbers, Jurists, Prophets, and Magicians (Morton Smith)
4. Popular Messianic Movements around the Time of Jesus (Richard A. Horsley)
III. The Early Islamic Period
5. Shiitic Influences in Jewish Sectarianism (Israel Friedlaender)
6. Messianic and Sectarian Movements (Salo Wittmayer Baron)
IV. The Period of the Crusades
7. A Report on Messianic Troubles in Baghdad in 1120–21 (S. D. Goitein)
8. Messianic Postures of Ashkenazim and Sephardim (Gerson D. Cohen)
9. Reappearance of Pseudo-Messiahs (Salo Wittmayer Baron)
10. The Messianic Self-Consciousness of Abraham Abulafia: A Tentative Evaluation (Abraham Berger)
V. After the Expulsion from Spain
11. Acute Apocalyptic Messianism (Isaiah Tishby)
VI. The Sabbatian Movement and Its Aftermath
12. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah (Gershom Scholem)
13. From Schweitzer to Scholem: Reflections on Sabbatai Svi (W. D. Davies)
VII. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
14. The Messianic-Prophetic Role of the Baal Shem Tov (Benzion Dinur)
15. Nahman of Bratslav's Messianic Strivings (Arthur Green)
16. Messianic Concepts and Settlement in the Land of Israel (Arie Morgenstern)
17. The Messiah Shukr Kuhayl II (1868–75) and his Tithe (Ma‘śser): Ideology and Practice as a Means to Hasten Redemption (Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman)
VIII. Zionism and the State of Israel
18. Israel and the Messiah (Jacob Katz)
19. Foundations of a Political Messianic Trend in Israel (Uriel Tal)
20. Messianic Postures in Israel Today (Menachem Kellner)
IX. Summaries and Reevaluations
21. Gershom Scholem on Jewish Messianism (David Biale)
22. The Price of Messianism (Jacob Taubes)
Index
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