Toward the Millennium, Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco.

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...

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Main Author: Peter Schäfer (Author); Mark Cohen (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1998.

Series: Numen Book Series 77.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Messianism > Congresses.
Jewish messianic movements > Congresses.
Millennialism > Congresses.
Political messianism > Congresses.

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Call Number: BL475 .T68 1998

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen
  • Introduction /
  • Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen
  • Diversity and Interaction: Messiahs in Early Judaism
  • Messiahs and their Followers /
  • John G. Gager
  • Messianic Elements in the Prechristian Greco-Roman World /
  • Christian Habicht
  • Midrash and Messianism: Some Theologies of Suffering and Salvation /
  • Michael Fishbane
  • Armilus: The Jewish Antichrist and the Origins and dating of the Sefer Zerubbavel /
  • Joseph Dan
  • Jewish Messianic Expectations Towards 1240 and Christian Reactions /
  • Israel Jacob Yuval
  • The Eschatological Imperative: Messianism and Holy War in Europe, 1260-1556 /
  • Norman Housley
  • The Millennial Moment: Revolution and Radical Religion in Sixteenth-Century spain /
  • Sara T. Nalle
  • Saturn and Sabbatai Tzevi: A New Approach to Sabbateanism /
  • Moshe Idel
  • The Engenderment of Messianic Politics: Symbolic Significance oF Sabbatai Ṣevi's Coronation /
  • Elliot R. Wolfson
  • Salvation through Philology: The Poetical Messianism of Quirinus kKuhlmann (1651-1689 /
  • Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
  • The Messianic Ciaim of Ghulām Aḥimad /
  • Yohanan Friedmann
  • Messianism in the Political Culture of the Weimar Republic /
  • Klaus Schreiner
  • Lines, Circles, Points: Messianic Epistemology in Cohen, Rosenzweig and Benjamin /
  • Robert Gibbs
  • The Lubavitch Messianic Resurgence: The Historical and Mystical Background 1939-1996 /
  • Rachel Elior
  • Patterns of the End: Textual Weaving from Qumran to Waco /
  • James D. Tabor
  • Index of Sources /
  • Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen
  • Index of Subjects /
  • Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen
  • Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /
  • Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen.