{"product_id":"9781400883158","title":"Sabbatai: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676","description":"\u003cp\u003eGershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, \u003ci\u003eSabbatai Ṣevi\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSabbatai Ṣevi\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161405735152,"sku":"9781400883158","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400883158_p0.jpg?v=1763712876","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400883158","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}