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Sabbatai Zevi - Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah (Paperback, New edition)
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Sabbatai Zevi - Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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Sabbatai Zevi (1626-76) stirred up the Jewish world of the
mid-seventeenth century by claiming to be the messiah, then stunned
it by suddenly converting to Islam. His story, and that of the
movement he created, is a landmark event in early modern Jewish
history and a dramatic example of what can happen when mystic
dreams and messianic hopes combine in an explosive mixture. Now,
for the first time, English readers can experience these events
through the words of those who lived through them, in lucid and
compelling translations by a leading authority in the field. Of the
contemporary 'testimonies' translated by David J. Halperin, three
are accounts by Sabbatai Zevi's followers of the life and deeds of
their messiah. These are the Najara Chronicle, an eyewitness
narrative which Gershom Scholem called 'one of the most
extraordinary documents shedding light on Sabbatai's personality';
Baruch of Arezzo's Memorial to the Children of Israel, a sober yet
devout biography of Sabbatai written shortly after his death; and
the bizarrely fanciful hagiography composed in 1692 by Abraham
Cuenque of Hebron. These narratives by Sabbatean 'believers' are
supplemented by two seventeenth-century letters, pungent in their
style and colourful in their details, in which Sabbatai and his
followers are described by a contemporary rabbi who detested them
and everything they stood for. Finally, a reminiscence of
Sabbatai's last days, preserved by one of the most
independent-minded of his followers, conveys the enigma of the man
who was to haunt the generations.
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