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Saturn's Jews: On Witches' Sabbat and Sabbateanism

Saturn's Jews: On Witches' Sabbat and Sabbateanism

Idel, Moshe

Hardcover

Series: Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies

OccultJudaism

ISBN10: 1441121447
ISBN13: 9781441121448
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 1 2011
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week.
Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late 14th century Sefer Ha-Peliyah was to have disturbing consequences in the Jewish world three centuries later, interweaving luminaries with the cultural, historical, religious, and philosophical concepts of their day, and demonstrating how cultural agents were inadvertently instrumental in the mid-17th-century mass-movement Sabbateanism that led to the conviction that Sabbatai Tzevi was the Messiah.

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