Judaica V

Redemption through Sin
Edited and with an afterword by Michael Brocke
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Redemption through Sin
Edited and with an afterword by Michael Brocke
Twenty years before his monumental work Sabbatai Zwi, which was first published in German by Jüdischer Verlag in 1922, Gersholm Scholem rattled the traditional Jewish worldview and its historiography with his essay »Redemption through Sin« in 1937. Scholem describes the history of the followers of the Jewish mystic and messiah Sabbatai Zwi (1626–1676) after the conversion and death of their founder. »Redemption through Sin« extends the historical line...
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Twenty years before his monumental work Sabbatai Zwi, which was first published in German by Jüdischer Verlag in 1922, Gersholm Scholem rattled the traditional Jewish worldview and its historiography with his essay »Redemption through Sin« in 1937. Scholem describes the history of the followers of the Jewish mystic and messiah Sabbatai Zwi (1626–1676) after the conversion and death of their founder. »Redemption through Sin« extends the historical line of Scholem’s great monograph and emphasises its foundation: the fact that sin paved the way for redemption, that the Messiah had to pass through all the corruptions and shortcomings of the world.
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