The Lost Messiah: In Search of Sabbatai Sevi: In Search of Sabbatei Sevi - Rilegato

Freely, John

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ISBN 10: 0670886750 ISBN 13: 9780670886753

Casa editrice: Viking, 2001

Riassunto

'Everything I believe in has come from the Kabbalah' - Roseanne Barr This is the story of Sabbatai Sevi, a rabbi from Izmir, the Aegean port of Turkey, who in the seventeenth century convinced multitudes of Jews that he was the long-awaited Messiah, but then disappointed them when he embraced Islam on threat of execution by the Turkish sultan. However, many of his followers continued to believe in him and some converted to Islam, beginning the sect known as the Dönme, outwardly Muslim, yet still clinging secretly to their Judaism. More than three centuries after his death, the esoteric Jewish mystic tradition known as the Kabbalah is still very much alive.

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L'autore:

John Freely was born in New York in 1926, joined the US Navy at the age of seventeen and served in the Second World War. He received a Ph.D. in physics from New York University in 1960, and since then he has lived in New York, Boston, London, Athens, Istanbul and Venice. Freely's first book was STROLLING THROUGH ISTANBUL. Since then he has written over twenty books, including ISTANBUL and INSIDE THE SERAGLIO (1999).

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• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0670886750
• ISBN 13: 9780670886753
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304