Sabbatian Heresy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sabbatian Heresy write by Pawel Maciejko. This book was released on 2017-05-02. Sabbatian Heresy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Key writings on Sabbatianism and its legacy and afterlife in Jewish culture, memory, and religion
Sabbatian Heresy
Sabbatian Heresy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sabbatian Heresy write by Pawel Maciejko. This book was released on 2017-05-02. Sabbatian Heresy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The pronouncements of Sabbatai Tsevi (1626-76) gave rise to Sabbatianism, a key messianic movement in Judaism that spread across Jewish communities in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The movement, which featured a set of theological doctrines in which Jewish Kabbalistic tradition merged with Muslim and later Christian elements, suffered a setback with Tsevi's conversion to Islam in 1666. Nonetheless, for another hundred and fifty years, Sabbatianism continued to exist as a heretical underground movement. It provoked intense opposition from rabbinic authorities for another century and had a significant impact on central developments of later Judaism, such as the Haskalah, the Reform movement, Hasidism, and the secularization of Jewish society. This volume provides a selection of the most original and influential texts composed by Sabbatai Tsevi and his followers, complemented by fragments of the works of their rabbinic opponents and contemporary observers and some literary works inspired by Sabbatianism. An introduction and annotations by Pawe_ Maciejko provide historical, political, and social context for the documents.
The Pursuit of Heresy
The Pursuit of Heresy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pursuit of Heresy write by Elisheva Carlebach. This book was released on 1990. The Pursuit of Heresy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rabbi Moses Hagiz, one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, devoted his career to restoring rabbinic authority. His most prominent talent was as a polemicist, and he campaigned ceaselessly against Jewish heresy in an attempt to unify the rabbinate. During Hagiz's lifetime there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority, which the author argues was the result of migration and assimilation.
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816 write by Ada Rapoport-Albert. This book was released on 2015-12-03. Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A timely and fascinating study of an early modern movement that transcended traditional Jewish gender paradigms and allowed women to express their spirituality freely in the public arena.
The Mixed Multitude
The Mixed Multitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mixed Multitude write by Paweł Maciejko. This book was released on 2011-03-08. The Mixed Multitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities contacted the bishop in whose diocese the service had taken place and argued that since the rites of Frank's followers involved the practice of magic and immoral conduct, both Jews and Christians should condemn them and burn them at the stake. The scheme backfired, as the Frankists took the opportunity to ally themselves with the Church, presenting themselves as Contra-Talmudists who believed in a triune God. As a Turkish subject, Frank was released and temporarily expelled to the Ottoman territories, but the others were found guilty of breaking numerous halakhic prohibitions and were subject to a Jewish ban of excommunication. While they professed their adherence to everything that was commanded by God in the Old Testament, they asserted as well that the Rabbis of old had introduced innumerable lies and misconstructions in their interpretations of that holy book. Who were Jacob Frank and his followers? To most Christians, they seemed to be members of a Jewish sect; to Jewish reformers, they formed a group making a valiant if misguided attempt to bring an end to the power of the rabbis; and to more traditional Jews, they were heretics to be suppressed by the rabbinate. What is undeniable is that by the late eighteenth century, the Frankists numbered in the tens of thousands and had a significant political and ideological influence on non-Jewish communities throughout eastern and central Europe. Based on extensive archival research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, Germany, the United States, and the Vatican, The Mixed Multitude is the first comprehensive study of Frank and Frankism in more than a century and offers an important new perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in the Age of Enlightenment.
