Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History

Name: Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History
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ISBN: 9780814779439

ISBN-10: 0814779433

ISBN-13: 9780814779439

Edition: 1992

Authors: Marc Saperstein

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The messianic idea that a redeemer sent by God will come to end the suffering of a persecuted people and inaugurate a new age of justice and peace has been one of the most powerful and influential concepts given by the Jewish people to western civilization. This book represents a sample of the most penetrating and provocative scholarly interpretations of Jewish messianic movement from various perspectives- historical, sociological, psychological, and religious.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Marc Saperstein, who previously held the first regular faculty appointment in Jewish Studies at Harvard divinity school, is currently Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St Louis.



Preface


Introduction




Overviews



Messianism in Jewish History




Jewish Messianism: Metamorphoses of an Idea




The Late Second Commonwealth Period



Messiahs: Robbers, Jurists, Prophets, and Magicians




Popular Messianic Movements around the Time of Jesus




The Early Islamic Period



Shiitic Influences in Jewish Sectarianism




The Raja Doctrine



The One True Prophet



Successive Incarnation



Prophet and Messiah



The Dai



Succession



Anointment



Inspiration



Social Position



Jihad



Prohibition of Meat



Number of Prayers



Messianic and Sectarian Movements




The Period of the Crusades



A Report on Messianic Troubles in Baghdad in 1120-21




Messianic Postures of Ashkenazim and Sephardim




Reappearance of Pseudo-Messiahs




The Messianic Self-Consciousness of Abraham Abulafia: A Tentative Evaluation




After the Expulsion from Spain



Acute Apocalyptic Messianism




The Sabbatian Movement and Its Aftermath



Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah




The Background of the Sabbatian Movement



Messianic Economics



Mass Prophecy



After the Apostasy



From Schweitzer to Scholem: Reflections on Sabbatai Svi




The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries



The Messianic-Prophetic Role of the Baal Shem Tov




Nahman of Bratslav's Messianic Strivings




Messianic Concepts and Settlement in the Land of Israel




The Messiah Shukr Kuhayl II (1868-75) and his Tithe (Maaser): Ideology and Practice as a Means to Hasten Redemption




Zionism and the State of Israel



Israel and the Messiah




Foundations of a Political Messianic Trend in Israel




Messianic Postures in Israel Today




Summaries and Reevaluations



Gershom Scholem on Jewish Messianism




The Price of Messianism



Index