TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF PLATES; 
TABLE OF TRANSLITERATION; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCETION 
CLASSICS EDITION; 1 THE BACKGROUND OF THE SABBATIAN MOVEMENT; I 
Historical and sociological explanations of the Sabbatian movement and 
their deficiencies; II Messianism in Jewish history and its two 
conflicting tendencies: the catastrophic-utopian and the rationalistic 
forms; III The messianic idea in the kabbalah; IV Lurianic kabbalah and 
its myth of exile and redemption; V The historical role and social 
significance of Lurianic kabbalah.;Gershom Scholem stands out among 
modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical 
imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai Ṣevi 
offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to
 engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Ṣevi 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 Ṣevi was forced to 
convert to Islam, but a clandestine sect survived. A monumental and 
revisionary work of Jewish historiography, Sabbatai Ṣevi details Ṣevi's 
rise to prominence and stands out for its combination of philological 
and empirical authority and passion. This edition contains a new 
introduction by Yaacob Dweck that explains the scholarly importance of 
Scholem's work to a new generation of readers.

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