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This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions
on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and
antagonists for each religious society. Extensive lists of
murderous end-time peoples, whether for good or evil, and those who
merit salvation hold variably defined roles in end-time scenarios.
Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected
papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion's
approach as well as shared concepts.
Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian Messianism in the
Ashkenazic World during the Reformation is the first comprehensive
study that situates Jewish messianism in its broader cultural,
social, and religious contexts within the surrounding Christian
society. By doing so, Rebekka Vo?f shows how the expressions of
Jewish and Christian end-time expectation informed one another.
Although the two groups disputed the different messiahs they
awaited, they shared principal hopes and fears relating to the end
of days. Drawing on a great variety of both Jewish and Christian
sources in Hebrew, Yiddish, German, and Latin, the book examines
how Jewish and Christian messianic ideology and politics were
deeply linked. It explores how Jews and Christians each reacted to
the other's messianic claims, apocalyptic beliefs, and
eschatological interpretations, and how they adapted their own
views of the last days accordingly. This comparative study of the
messianic expectations of Jews and Christians in the Ashkenazic
world during the Reformation and their entanglements contributes a
new facet to our understanding of cultural transfer between Jews
and Christians in the early modern period. Disputed Messiahs
includes four main parts. The first part characterizes the specific
context of Jewish messianism in Germany and defines the Christian
perception of Jewish messianic hope. The next two parts deal with
case studies of Jewish messianic expectation in Germany, Italy and
Poland. While the second part focuses on the messianic phenomenon
of the prophet Asher Lemlein, part 3 is divided into five chapters,
each devoted to a case of interconnected Jewish-Christian
apocalyptic belief and activity. Each case study is a
representative example used to demonstrate the interplay of Jewish
and Christian eschatological expectations. The final part presents
Vo?f's general conclusions, carving out the remarkable paradox of a
relationship between Jewish and Christian messianism that is
controversial, albeit fertile. Scholars and students of history,
culture, and religion are the intended audience for this book.
Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian Messianism in the
Ashkenazic World during the Reformation is the first comprehensive
study that situates Jewish messianism in its broader cultural,
social, and religious contexts within the surrounding Christian
society. By doing so, Rebekka Vo?f shows how the expressions of
Jewish and Christian end-time expectation informed one another.
Although the two groups disputed the different messiahs they
awaited, they shared principal hopes and fears relating to the end
of days. Drawing on a great variety of both Jewish and Christian
sources in Hebrew, Yiddish, German, and Latin, the book examines
how Jewish and Christian messianic ideology and politics were
deeply linked. It explores how Jews and Christians each reacted to
the other's messianic claims, apocalyptic beliefs, and
eschatological interpretations, and how they adapted their own
views of the last days accordingly. This comparative study of the
messianic expectations of Jews and Christians in the Ashkenazic
world during the Reformation and their entanglements contributes a
new facet to our understanding of cultural transfer between Jews
and Christians in the early modern period. Disputed Messiahs
includes four main parts. The first part characterizes the specific
context of Jewish messianism in Germany and defines the Christian
perception of Jewish messianic hope. The next two parts deal with
case studies of Jewish messianic expectation in Germany, Italy and
Poland. While the second part focuses on the messianic phenomenon
of the prophet Asher Lemlein, part 3 is divided into five chapters,
each devoted to a case of interconnected Jewish-Christian
apocalyptic belief and activity. Each case study is a
representative example used to demonstrate the interplay of Jewish
and Christian eschatological expectations. The final part presents
Vo?f's general conclusions, carving out the remarkable paradox of a
relationship between Jewish and Christian messianism that is
controversial, albeit fertile. Scholars and students of history,
culture, and religion are the intended audience for this book.
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