Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas

Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas

Yaacob Dweck • Princeton University Press

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ISBN-10: 0691183570 · ISBN-13: 978‑0691183572 · 2019 · 1st Edition

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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Dissident Rabbi by Yaacob Dweck In 1665, as Jews abandoned reason for the ecstasy of enthusiasm for self-proclaimed Messiah Sabbetai Zevi, Jacob Sasportas watched in horror. Dweck tells the story of the Sephardic rabbi who challenged Sabbetai Zevi's improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers.. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certaintyIn 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was at hand. As Jews everywhere rejected the traditional laws of Judaism in favor of new norms established by Sabbetai Zevi, and abandoned reason for the ecstasy of messianic enthusiasm, one man watched in horror. Dissident Rabbi tells the story of Jacob Sasportas, the Sephardic rabbi who alone challenged Sabbetai Zevi's improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers.Yaacob Dweck's absorbing and richly detailed biography brings to life the tumultuous century in which Sasportas lived, an age torn apart by war, migration, and famine. He describes the messianic frenzy that gripped the Jewish Diaspora, and Sasportas's attempts to make sense of a world that Sabbetai Zevi claimed was ending. As Jews danced in the streets, Sasportas compiled The Fading Flower of the Zevi, a meticulous and eloquent record of Sabbatianism as it happened. In 1666, barely a year after Sabbetai Zevi heralded the redemption, the Messiah converted to Islam at the behest of the Ottoman sultan, and Sasportas's book slipped into obscurity.Dissident Rabbi is the revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to articulate the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certainty, and a revealing examination of how his life and legacy were rediscovered and appropriated by later generations of Jewish thinkers. Review "Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture" "Dweck's new book is not merely another study of the Sabbatian affair; it canvasses seventeenth-century Sephardic diaspora, rabbinic epistemology and the crises between them, a crisis of which Sasportas' anti-Sabbatian campaign was only an external manifestation."---Zvi Kunshtat, Studia Rosenthaliana Review Quote "Dweck provides an exceptionally rich and truly brilliant interpretation not only of Sasportas's confrontation with the Sabbatian movement but also of the various contexts in which to situate the development of his ideas at every stage of his life." 'e"Ada Rapoport-Albert, author of Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666'e"1816 Promotional "Headline" A book about the life and times of Jacob Sasportas (1610-98), a rabbi from North Africa who emerged as the primary opponent of the mass messianic Jewish movement that coalesced around Sabbatai Sevi in the 1660s. Details ISBN 0691183570 Author Yaacob Dweck Pages 504 Publisher Princeton University Press Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 0691183570 ISBN-13 9780691183572 Format Hardcover Imprint Princeton University Press Subtitle The Life of Jacob Sasportas Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States Translated from English Short Title Dissident Rabbi Publication Date 2019-08-06 UK Release Date 2019-08-06 NZ Release Date 2019-08-06 US Release Date 2019-08-06 Illustrations 32 b/w illus. 2 maps DEWEY 296.092 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2019-10-14 Country of Origin US Product Class Description Biography: Religious & Spiritual We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.

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