by hadassah | Mar 4, 2008 | Early Modern Period, Messianic Movements
Portrait of Sabbatai Zvi, from John Evelyn, Historia de Tribus Hujus Seculi Fanosis Impostoribus (1669), RB 436.8. The Three Imposters What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get answers from this website Create Account Contact...
by hadassah | Mar 4, 2008 | Early Modern Period, Messianic Movements
Shaagat Aryeh, Yaakov Emden, Amsterdam, 1755, BM744.3.E43 1755, Title page. What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get answers from this website Create Account Contact...
by hadassah | Feb 29, 2008 | Early Modern Period, Messianic Movements
After the Expulsion from Spain and the forced conversions in Portugal, many Jews and New Christians, seeking an explanation for the twin disasters, saw in them signs of the approaching messianic era – that is, the necessary “birth pangs.” They could point to a series...
