Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco
This collection of 16 articles represents a selection of the papers delivered in the course of a seminar (1995-1996) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and its concluding joint symposium held at the Institute and Princeton University.Wide-ranging in scope, the volume covers messianic expectations from biblical times up to modern and contemporaneous adaptations, whereby the focus lies on the messianic concept within Judaism: diversity and variety of messianic expectations in antiquity; messianic movements at the time of the Crusades and around the fifth millennium (1240); the 'Pseudo'-Messiah Sabbatai Avi in the early modern peri…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Cohen, Mark (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-90-04-11037-3
- EAN: 9789004110373
- Produktnummer: 2433783
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 446 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.6 cm x D3.2 cm 939 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 77
- Gewicht: 939
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Peter Schafer, Dr.Phil. (1968) in Jewish Studies, Habilitation 1973, is Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Institut fur Judaistik at the Freie Universitat Berlin. He has published extensively on Jewish literature and history in late antiquity and on early Jewish mysticism. Among his most recent books are Envisioning Magic. A Princeton Seminar and Symposium (Brill, 1997) (with Hans Kippenberg) and Magische Texte aus der Kairoer Geniza, vol. II (Mohr-Siebeck, 1997) (with Shaul Shaked). Mark R. Cohen, Ph.D. (1976) in Jewish History, is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and past Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Princeton University. He has published widely on Jewish life under medieval Islam and on Jewish-Muslim relations. His books include Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 1994) and The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's 'Life of Judah' (Princeton University Press, 1988).
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