Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History

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ISBN: 9780814779439 | 0814779433
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Copyright: 10/1/1992

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The messianic idea that a redeemer sent by God will come to end the suffering of a persecuted people and inaugurate a new age of justice and peace has been one of the most powerful and influential concepts given by the Jewish people to western civilization. This book represents a sample of the most penetrating and provocative scholarly interpretations of Jewish messianic movement from various perspectives- historical, sociological, psychological, and religious.

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Overviews
Messianism in Jewish History	p. 35
Jewish Messianism: Metamorphoses of an Idea	p. 53
The Late Second Commonwealth Period
Messiahs: Robbers, Jurists, Prophets, and Magicians	p. 73
Popular Messianic Movements around the Time of Jesus	p. 83
The Early Islamic Period
Shiitic Influences in Jewish Sectarianism	p. 113
The Raja Doctrine
The One True Prophet
Successive Incarnation
Prophet and Messiah
The Dai
Succession
Anointment
Inspiration
Social Position
Jihad
Prohibition of Meat
Number of Prayers
Messianic and Sectarian Movements	p. 162
The Period of the Crusades
A Report on Messianic Troubles in Baghdad in 1120-21	p. 189
Messianic Postures of Ashkenazim and Sephardim	p. 202
Reappearance of Pseudo-Messiahs	p. 234
The Messianic Self-Consciousness of Abraham Abulafia: A Tentative Evaluation	p. 250
After the Expulsion from Spain
Acute Apocalyptic Messianism	p. 259
The Sabbatian Movement and Its Aftermath
Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah	p. 289
The Background of the Sabbatian Movement
Messianic Economics
Mass Prophecy
After the Apostasy
From Schweitzer to Scholem: Reflections on Sabbatai Svi	p. 335
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Messianic-Prophetic Role of the Baal Shem Tov	p. 377
Nahman of Bratslav's Messianic Strivings	p. 389
Messianic Concepts and Settlement in the Land of Israel	p. 433
The Messiah Shukr Kuhayl II (1868-75) and his Tithe (Maaser): Ideology and Practice as a Means to Hasten Redemption	p. 456
Zionism and the State of Israel
Israel and the Messiah	p. 475
Foundations of a Political Messianic Trend in Israel	p. 492
Messianic Postures in Israel Today	p. 504
Summaries and Reevaluations
Gershom Scholem on Jewish Messianism	p. 521
The Price of Messianism	p. 551
Index	p. 559
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