Abraham Miguel Cardozo
Abraham Miguel Cardozo

Author: Abraham Miguel Cardozo

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0809140233

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Abraham Miguel Cardozo (1627-1706) is known primarily as a follower and defender of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He was that, indeed; but he was a great deal more than that as well. Cardozo was one of the most vivid, complex and original personalities to emerge within Judaism during the seventeenth century. An early modern Jew, he was above all an individual. Like his contemporary Spinoza, Cardozo suffered horribly for his individuality. Yet he remained faithful until his death -- his strange, violent, eerily messianic death -- to what he believed to be the true and authentic Jewish faith. Cardozo deserves to be known for himself. Book jacket.

Abraham Miguel Cardozo
Abraham Miguel Cardozo

Author: Abraham Miguel Cardozo

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780809105328

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Abraham Miguel Cardozo (1627-1706) is known primarily as a follower and defender of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He was that, indeed; but he was a great deal more than that as well. Cardozo was one of the most vivid, complex and original personalities to emerge within Judaism during the seventeenth century. An early modern Jew, he was above all an individual. Like his contemporary Spinoza, Cardozo suffered horribly for his individuality. Yet he remained faithful until his death -- his strange, violent, eerily messianic death -- to what he believed to be the true and authentic Jewish faith. Cardozo deserves to be known for himself. Book jacket.

Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-06-20

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9004506624

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The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma. This volume features contributions by Reimund Leicht, Gitit Holzman, Jonathan Garb, Anna Lissa, Gianni Paganini, Adi Louria Hayon, Mark Marion Gondelman, and Jürgen Sarnowsky. This volume features contributions by Jeremy Phillip Brown, Libera Pisano, Jeffrey G. Amshalem, Maria Vittoria Comacchi, Jonatan Meir, Rebecca Kneller-Rowe, Isaac Slater, Michela Torbidoni, Guido Bartolucci, and Tamir Karkason.

Sabbatai Zevi
Sabbatai Zevi

Author: David J. Halperin

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1789624843

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Sabbatai Zevi stirred up the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century by claiming to be the messiah, then stunned it by suddenly converting to Islam. The story is presented here for the first time through contemporary documents, written by Sabbatai’s followers and by one of his detractors, in translations that brilliantly capture the vividness of this landmark episode in early modern Jewish history.

Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism
Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism

Author: Moshe Idel

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13:

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This book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole a category much more vast than ever imagined. By this survey, not only can the mystical forms of Sonship in Judaism be better understood, but the concept of Sonship in religion in general can also be enriched>

Sabbatian Heresy
Sabbatian Heresy

Author: Pawel Maciejko

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1512600539

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The pronouncements of Sabbatai Tsevi (1626-76) gave rise to Sabbatianism, a key messianic movement in Judaism that spread across Jewish communities in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The movement, which featured a set of theological doctrines in which Jewish Kabbalistic tradition merged with Muslim and later Christian elements, suffered a setback with Tsevi's conversion to Islam in 1666. Nonetheless, for another hundred and fifty years, Sabbatianism continued to exist as a heretical underground movement. It provoked intense opposition from rabbinic authorities for another century and had a significant impact on central developments of later Judaism, such as the Haskalah, the Reform movement, Hasidism, and the secularization of Jewish society. This volume provides a selection of the most original and influential texts composed by Sabbatai Tsevi and his followers, complemented by fragments of the works of their rabbinic opponents and contemporary observers and some literary works inspired by Sabbatianism. An introduction and annotations by Pawe_ Maciejko provide historical, political, and social context for the documents.

Index to Jewish Periodicals
Index to Jewish Periodicals

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Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13:

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An author and subject index to selected and American Anglo-Jewish journals of general and scholarly interests.

Encyclopaedia Judaica
Encyclopaedia Judaica

Author: Fred Skolnik

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 936

ISBN-13: 9780028659503

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Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.

Sabbatai Ṣevi
Sabbatai Ṣevi

Author: Gershom Gerhard Scholem

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 1093

ISBN-13: 1400883156

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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.