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Messianic Mystics (Paperback, New Ed)
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Messianic Mystics (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this stimulating book, one of the world's leading scholars of
Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and
mystical experience. Moshe Idel calls upon his profound knowledge
of ancient and medieval texts and of Jewish, Christian, Islamic,
and Eastern sources to uncover new perspectives on the nature and
development of Jewish messianism. He shows that, contrary to
Gershom Scholem's view that mysticism and messianism are
incompatible religious tendencies, they are in fact closely related
spiritual phenomena. Messianism regularly emerges from mystical
experiences, Idel contends. Exploring the interplay of Jewish
messianism and mysticism from the twelfth through the eighteenth
centuries, the book looks closely at pivotal figures and movements,
including Abraham Abulafia, Sabbatai Sevi, and hasidism. Idel
discerns three types of messianism-theosophical-theurgical,
ecstatic, and talismanic-and through these demonstrates that
Kabbalah, from the very beginning, was messianically oriented. He
counters the common belief that messianism typically arises as a
response to such calamities as the expulsion of the Jews from Spain
in 1492 and shows that messiahs often gain great popularity in
times of political tranquility. Idel also finds that Jewish
messianic and mystical experience bears a much greater resemblance
to Christian messianism than has been recognized before.
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