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Notes to Pages 8–11 175 possibilities in Jewish mysticism in Messianic Mystics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998). 4. See Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. C. W. Bynum and P. Freedman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), 1–20. 5. Shabbatai Zvi, quoted by the Dutch minister Thomas Coenen in his Ydele verwachtinge, 55 (my translation from the Hebrew edition); Scholem, Sabbatai àevi, 404 and discussion there. 6. See D. E. Harkness, “Alchemy and Eschatology: Exploring the Connections between John Dee and Isaac Newton,” in Newton and Religion: Context, Nature, and Influence, ed. J. E. Force and R. H. Popkin (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999), 1–15. 7. Scholem, Sabbatai àevi, 39–44; Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (New York: Schocken, 1941), ch. 7. 8. See the important insights on this matter in Richard Lewinsohn (Morus), Prophets and Prediction: The History of Prophecy from Babylon to Wall Street, trans. A. J. Pomerans (London: Secker and Warburg, 1958). 9. See Andre Neher, L’essence du prophétisme, M. Bar-Zvi trans. into Hebrew (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1999), 13; Moshe Idel, Preface to A. J. Heschel, Prophetic Inspiration After the Prophets: Maimonides and Other Medieval Authorities, ed. M. M. Faierstein (Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 1996), ix. 10. In this and other aspects, prophecy has the hallmarks of William James’s mystical experiences. See William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Macmillan, 1961), chs. 16–17. It is noteworthy that Shabbatai’s contemporary, Barukh Spinoza, invests a great deal of effort in paring down the meaning of prophecy in his Theologico-Political Treatise. 11. See Deuteronomy 13:2–6, 18:21–22; Heschel, Prophetic Inspiration, 1–4 and ch. 1 passim; Howard Kreisel, “The Verification of Prophecy in Medieval Jewish Philosophy” [Hebrew] Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 4:1–2 (1984/5): 1–18. For an example of a contemporary position (related to the Lubavitch debates), see Eliahou Bokobza, Emunat Hakhamim (n/p, 1993). 12. See Howard T. Kreisel, Prophecy: The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001). 13. See, e.g., Amos Funkenstein, Maimonides: Nature, History and Messianic Beliefs, trans. S. Himelstein (Tel-Aviv: Ministry of Defense Books, 1997), chs. 10–13; Alvin J. Reines, Maimonides and Abrabanel on Prophecy (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1970); Eschatology in Maimonidean Thought: Messianism, Resurrection and the World to Come, ed. J. I. Dienstag (Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 1983); Benzion Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1982), ch. 4; Joel L. Kramer, “On Maimonides’ Messianic Posture,” in Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, vol. II, ed. I. Twersky (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 1984), 109–142; Kreisel, “Verification of Prophecy”; Eric Lawee, “The Messianism of Isaac Abarbanel, ‘Father of the [Jewish] Messianic Movements of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’,” in Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture, vol. I: Jewish Messianism in the
176 Notes to Pages 12–14 Early Modern World, ed. M. Goldish and R. H. Popkin (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001), 1–39. 14. See Moshe Idel, The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988); Abraham Berger, “The Messianic Self-Consciousness of Abraham Abulafia,” in Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History, ed. M. Saperstein (New York: New York University Press, 1992), 250–55; The Wisdom of the Zohar, ed. P. Lachower and I. Tishby, trans. D. Goldstein (Oxford: Littman Library, 1989), II:1:3, “Sleep and Dreams” and passim; Y. Liebes, Studies on the Zohar, trans. A. Schwartz, S. Nakache, P. Pelli (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), ch. 1; Haviva Pedaya, Vision and Speech: Models of Revelatory Experience in Jewish Mysticism [Hebrew] (Culver City, Calif.: Cherub Press, 2002). 15. Cohn, Pursuit of the Millennium. 16. Robert E. Lerner, The Feast of Saint Abraham: Medieval Millenarians and the Jews (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001); Bernard McGinn, Apocalypticism in the Western Tradition (Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, 1994), chs. 8–10; Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969); Reeves, Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future: A Study in Historical Thinking (Guilford, Surrey: Sutton, 1999); and Reeves, The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate/Variorum, 1999.) 17. See the sources in n2 above, and D. S. Katz and R. H. Popkin, Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999). 18. On messianism in this period see the series Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture, vols. 1–4 (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001). I refer to individual volumes and essays throughout this section. 19. Reeves, Influence of Prophecy, part III; Paul J. Alexander, “The Medieval Legend of the Last Roman Emperor and Its Messianic Origin,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 41 (1978): 1–15. Sixteenth-century Ottoman rulers were also fascinated by the idea of a Last World Emperor, on which see the section about Muslim messianism below. On the ancient development of these ideas, see David Potter, Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994). 20. Robert E. Lerner, The Powers of Prophecy: The Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983). 21. See, e.g., Reeves, Influence of Prophecy, part III; Christopher Hill, Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England (London: Verso, 1990); Curtis V. Bostick, The Antichrist and the Lollards: Apocalypticism in Late Medieval and Reformation England (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998); Bernard McGinn, Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994), esp. chs. 6–9; Jean Elizabeth Light McFarlane, “Antichrist in English Literature, 1380–1680” (Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1980). 22. See Matt Goldish, “Patterns In Converso Messianism,” in Millenarianism and
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Contents Preface ix Prologue 1 1 Me
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CHAPTER 2 Messianism and Prophecy i
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The Jewish Tradition 43 anic age. 1
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The Jewish Tradition 45 Converso Me
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Nathan of Gaza 61 who also appears
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Nathan of Gaza 63 In both Nathan’
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