Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676

Author/Contributor(s):	Scholem, Gershom
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Date:	10/04/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai òSevi Sabbatai bevi was an obscure kabbalist rabbi of seventeenth-century Turkey who aroused a fervent following that spread over the Jewish world after he declared himself to be the Messiah. The movement suffered a severe blow when òSevi was forced to convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived."--