Scholem Sabbatai Sevi

Scholem, Gershom: Sabbatai Sevi. The mystical Messiah 1626 - 1676 The Littmann library of Jewish civilisation. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. ISBN: 0710077033
Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Messianic longing and expectation, always rife throughout Jewish history, have often found expression in movements prompted by messianic pretenders, forerunners or prophets. These manifestations have generally been of short duration and local significance only. The only messianic movement to engulf the whole of Je wry - from England to Persia, from Germany to Morocco, from Poland to the Yemen - was that aroused by a young kabbalist rabbi from Smyrna, the 'messiah' Sabbatai Sevi, and his prophet, Nathan of Gaza, in 1666. Spreading from Palestine and Turkey, the Sabbatian movement had reached fever pitch when it suddenly met the most unexpected crisis: the messiah became a Muslim to save his life. The majority of Jews were shocked out of their messianic intoxication, but for a minority of devout believers the messiah's apostasy was a profound mystery that mortal eyes could not see but that faith with the eyes of the spirit could comprehend. The messiah's apparent failure, far from being a betrayal of his mission, was the true fulfilment of his spiritual ministry. A popular eschatological mass-movement transformed itself into a clandestine sect, and the kabbalistic doctrines that had formed part of Sabbatianism from its beginnings developed into a mystical heresy. Professor Scholem's detailed and authoritative account of the Sabbatian movement from its inception to the founder's death not only illuminates an extraordinary phenomenon in Jewish history but is a major contribution to the general study of messianic movements and their theologies. Since this book originally appeared in Hebrew in 1957, numerous hitherto unknown sources have come to light, supplying important new information. These sources have been taken into account in preparing the English edition, which therefore presents many new facets and enlarges on and corrects many statements in the earlier Hebrew edition. There are many new illustrations, some of which are drawn from seventeenth-century broadsheets about Sabbatai Sevi. ISBN 0710077033, ISBN-13: 9780710077035

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Scholem, Gershom Gerhard: SHABTAI TSEVI VEHA-TENU'AH HA-SHABTA'IT BI-YEME HAYAV. COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES. 1967 Tel-Aviv: 'am ?oved,

(FT) Hardcover, 15, 842 pages, illustrated, portraits, 8vo, 24 cm. In Hebrew. 2 volumes. SUBJECT(S) : Rabbis -- Turkey -- Biography. Sabbathaians. Shabbethai Tzevi, 1626-1676. Includes bibliographical references in volume 2, pages 829-842 and index. Other Titles: Title on title page verso: Shabbetai Zevi and the Shabetaian movement during his lifetime. Scholem (1898-1982) was "the most important scholar of Jewish mysticism and a towering figure in Jewish intellectual life. Born to an assimilated family in Berlin, he was attracted in his youth to Judaism and Zionism and studied major Hebrew Jewish texts and Kabbalah by himself. After completing a Ph. D. Thesis in 1923 on Sefer ha-Bahir, he arrived in Israel, and taught at the Hebrew University, becoming the first professor to devote all his studies and teaching to the topic of Jewish mysticism. His achievement in surveying all the major stages and writings belonging to this topic is staggering. In the difficult times of the 1920s and 1930s, he traveled to all the major European libraries and systematically studied all the available manuscripts. In 1939 he delivered a series of lectures in New York, which became the first comprehensive analysis of the historical and phenomenological aspects of the entire range of Jewish mysticism: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, which is also his most influential and widely read book. Building upon his perusal of manuscripts, he published from the mid-1920s a series of articles in Hebrew in which he identified many anonymous manuscripts, and from 1948, a series of analyses about the beginning of Kabbalah. In its most elaborated form, it appeared in English posthumously as Origins of the Kabbalah, translated by A. Arkush and edited by R. Z. J. Werblowsky. Alongside those studies he identified, published, and analyzed in detail the main documents pertinent to Shabbateanism, and in 1957, he published in Hebrew the most important synthesis of the historical and religious aspects of the Shabbatean movement in the lifetime of Shabbetai Zevi . Sixteen years later, Princeton University Press produced an enlarged English version of this book, Sabbatai Sevi, the Mystical Messiah, translated by R. J. Z. Werblowsky. Scholem was widely recognized as the leading scholar in Judaica in the 20th century and was accorded numerous prizes and honorary titles, among them the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the Rothschild Prize, and served as the head of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities" (Idel in EJ, 2007) . In dust jacket, light chipping to edges and to spine. Light wear. Otherwise, very good condition (Rab-37-12/13)

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Scholem, Gershom Gerhard: SHABATAI TSEVI VEHA-TENUAH HA-SHABTAIT BE-YEMI HAYAV (ONLY VOLUME ONE OF TWO) 1967 Tel-Aviv: Am Oved

Hardcover, 8vo, 376 pages, illustrations, facsims, portrait, 24cm. In Hebrew. Jacob Agus' copy with notes. SUBJECT (S) : Sabbathaians. Shabbethai, Tzevi, 1626-1676. Other Titles: Added title page: Shabbetai Zevi and the Shabbetaian movement during his lifetime. Scholem (1898-1982) , was "the most important scholar of Jewish mysticism and a towering figure in Jewish intellectual life. Born to an assimilated family in Berlin, he was attracted in his youth to Judaism and Zionism and studied major Hebrew Jewish texts and Kabbalah by himself. After completing a Ph. D. Thesis in 1923 on Sefer ha-Bahir, he arrived in Israel, and taught at the Hebrew University, becoming the first professor to devote all his studies and teaching to the topic of Jewish mysticism. His achievement in surveying all the major stages and writings belonging to this topic is staggering. In the difficult times of the 1920s and 1930s, he traveled to all the major European libraries and systematically studied all the available manuscripts. In 1939 he delivered a series of lectures in New York, which became the first comprehensive analysis of the historical and phenomenological aspects of the entire range of Jewish mysticism: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, which is also his most influential and widely read book... In 1957, he published in Hebrew the most important synthesis of the historical and religious aspects of the Shabbatean movement in the lifetime of Shabbetai ? Evi . Sixteen years later, Princeton University Press produced an enlarged English version of this book, Sabbatai Sevi, the Mystical Messiah, translated by R. J. Z. Werblowsky His deep involvement in the intellectual life in Israel and in the Jewish world generated numerous articles, most of which have been collected in three Hebrew volumes edited by Abraham Shapira, and in some English ones His rich library is indubitably the best one in the field of Jewish mysticism, and it became part of the Jewish National and University Library, serving as a major resource for studies in the field. A catalogue raisonne of his library has been printed in two volumes, edited by Joseph Dan and Esther Liebes, The Library of Gershom Scholem on Jewish Mysticism" (Idel in EJ, 2007) . Light staining to front and back cover. Wear to binding. Good condition. (Rab-47-1)

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Scholem, Gershom Gerhard: Sabbatai Sevi; The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Bollingen Foundation 1973
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