Israel In Prophecy

Last Name

LENOWITZ

First Name

Harris

Title

The Jewish Messiahs: From the Galilee to Crown Heights

Publisher

New York: Oxford University Press

Year

1998

Group

MEX

Comments

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Contents:

• Introduction: the ritual and the accounts
• The Israelite Messiahs: Jesus of Nazareth and Shim'on bar Kosiba and Their forerunners
• The Persian messiahs: Abu Isa, Yudghan, Mushka, and Serenus of Syria
• The messiah of Amadia: David Alroy
• The messiahs of the inquisition: David Reubeni and Shlomo Molkho
• The messiahs of Safed: Isaac Luria and Hayim Vital
• The messiah of Izmir: Shabtai Zvi
• The Polish messiahs: Yakov Frank and His Daughter Ewa
• The Tzaddik of Hasidism
• The Yemenite messiahs: reprise
• Conclusion: the characterization of abandonment