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Sabbatian Heresy
Author | : Pawel Maciejko |
Publsiher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781512600537 |
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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.
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi 1666 1816
Author | : Ada Rapoport-Albert |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2015-12-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781800345447 |
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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 Pursuit of Heresy
Author | : Elisheva Carlebach |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231071914 |
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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.
Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism
Author | : Joseph Weiss |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1997-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781909821866 |
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A classic text for all those interested in Jewish religious developments in eastern Europe, this paperback has a new introduction locating Weiss's work in the context of contemporary scholarship and the current resurgence of hasidism.
Canonization and Alterity
Author | : Gilad Sharvit,Willi Goetschel |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-07-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110671582 |
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This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions from antiquity to the 20th century. Chapters explore the role of heresy in the Hellenic period and Rabbinic literature; the significance of heresy to Kabbalah, and the critical and often formative importance the challenge of heresy plays for modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Freud, and Derrida, and literary figures such as Kafka, Tchernikhovsky, and I.B. Singer. Examining heresy as a boundary issue constitutive for the formation of Jewish tradition, this book contributes to a better understanding of the significance of the figure of the heretic for tradition more generally.
Reader s Guide to Judaism
Author | : Michael Terry |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1768 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781135941574 |
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The Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.
The Spirit and the Letter
Author | : Paul S. Fiddes,Günter Bader |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567218858 |
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Paul's statement that 'letter kills but the spirit gives life' [2 Corinthians 3.6] has had an extraordinary impact on Christian thought through the ages. It has been read both as affirming the saving power of the new covenant in comparison to the old, and as a key to hidden, spiritual meanings in the text of scripture. It is, however, an ambiguous phrase, followed by a tangled story. This book explores the Pauline distinction both in its original context and in its aftermath in the early church, the Reformation and modern Biblical Studies. It then considers a postmodern reversal, where ideas of 'Spirit' are often seen as 'deadly' and the openness of the 'letter' or text as life-affirming, and draws conclusions for Spirit in the world.
Gershom Scholem
Author | : David Biale |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674363329 |
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Through a lifetime of passionate scholarship, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) uncovered the "domains of tradition hidden under the debris of centuries" and made the history of Jewish mysticism and messianism comprehensible and relevant to current Jewish thought. In this paperback edition of his definitive book on Scholem's work, David Biale has shortened and rearranged his study for the benefit of the general reader and the student. A new introduction and new passages in the main text highlight the pluralistic character of Jewish theology as seen by Scholem, the place of the Kabbalah in debates over Zionism versus assimilation, and the interpretation of Kafka as a Jewish writer.