Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (Bollingen Series XCIII)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvii, 1000 pp. Original olive cloth with black imprinted title label with gold lettering on spine in original printed cream & black dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of Sabbatai Sevi. One of the greatest works of Jewish history ever written, Gershom Scholem's masterful biography of the 17th century messianic claimant Sabbatai Sevi turned an embarrassing episode in Jewish history that most Jewish scholars wished to ignore into one of the pivotal moments in the rise of modernity. Scholem advanced the controversial arguments that Sabbatianism was a product of Lurianic Kabbalah and that it influenced both Hasidism and the Reform movement. Top of dust jacket with minor edgewear. Rubber stamp ownership signature on two blank leaves and a library donation rubber stamp on two other blank leaves. Dust jacket in overall very good +, book (except for the rubber stamps) is in overall very good + to near fine condition. vg to near fine. Item #50695
ISBN: 0691099162
Price: $65.00