[Cohen, Isaac Bernard] Scholem, Gershom.

Sabbatai Sevi – The Mystical Messiah – 1626-1676.

Princeton, Princeton University Press/Bollingen, 1973. Large Octavo. 1000 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Sevi. With 15 plates. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good or better in like dust jacket, spine-sunned. From the library of Isaac Bernard Cohen, with his bookplate to the pastedown, and bearing a gift inscription on the front blank addressed to him. [Bollingen Series XCIII].

Includes for Example: Historical and sociological explanations of the Sabbatian movement and their deficiencies/ Messianism in Jewish history and its two conflicting tendencies: the catastrophic-utopian and the rationalistic forms/ The messianic idea in the kabbalah/ Lurianic kabbalah and its myth of exile and redemption/ The historical role and social significance of Lurianic kabbalah/ Kabbalism in Poland. The messianic expectations for the year 1648. Contemporary reactionms to the great massacres of that year/ Utopian messianism in Christianity: chiliasm and millenarian movements/ The beginnings of Sabbatai Sevi/ His sojourn in Jerusalem and mission to Egypt. His marriage to Sarah/ The beginnings of the movement in Palestine/ Abraham Nathan Ashkenazi and his prophetic experience/ Sabbatai’s return from Egypt to Gaza/ The great prophetic revelation and messianic illumination in 1665/ The apocalypse “The Vision of R. Abraham”/ Sabbatai Sevi in Gaza and his excommunication by the rabbis of Jerusalem/ Sabbatai’s travels through Safed and Aleppo to Smyrna/ The messianic agitation in Gaza after Sabbatai’s departure/ The prophet Nathan’s letter to the chelebi Raphael Joseph in Egypt/ Nathan’s penitential tracts/ Nathan’s “Treatise on the Dragons” and its principal doctrines/ The movement up to Sabbatai’s imprisonment in Gallipoli/ Rumors of conquests by the armies of the Ten Tribes in Persia, Arabia, and North Africa/ The movement in Smyrna until December 1665/ Mass prophecy, and the appointment of kings by the messiah. Sabbatai’s departure for Constantinople/ Conditions and factors making for the success and spread of the movement/ General description of the penitential awakening/ The movement in the East and the center in Gallipoli until Sabbatai’s Apostasy/ The spread of the movement in Turkey, Egypt, and North Africa/ Abraham Miguel Cardozo/ The movement in Yemen/ Nehemiah Kohen and his visit to Sabbatai Sevi/ Complaints to the Turkish authorities regarding an alleged Jewish revolt/ After the Apostasy/ Nathan’s departure from Palestine/ The prophet Sabbatai Raphael and his travels in Europe/ The letter “Magen Abraham” by Abraham Miguel Cardozo/ The consolidation of the Sabbatian group in Adrianople/ The revelations of the year 1668 and the tract “The Testimony of the Faith”/ Israel Hazzan’s commentary on the Psalms/ The imprisonment and trial of Sabbatai Sevi in 1672/ Sabbatai’s banishment to Dulcigno/ The messianic revival in the years 1674-75 in Amsterdam and in North America etc.

• Keywords: Catalogue No.8 – Judaica Collection · Inscribed · Jewish Culture · Jewish History – Rare · Judaica – Collection · Judaica – Rare · Judaism · Signed
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691099162
• Inventory Number: 44846AB

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