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with this material in the context of Jewish women’s history, my aim is to consider
the same events and personalities within the context of the Sabbatean
movement’s early internal dynamics.
23. Scholem, Kabbalah, 396–400.
24. A good introduction to the man and his thought, along with many translated
texts, is available in Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings translated and introduced
by David J. Halperin (New York: Paulist Press, 2001). For Cardoso’s
background in classical philosophy and ecclesiastical theology, see Nissim
Yosha, “The Philosophical Background of Sabbatian Theology—Guidelines Toward
an Understanding of Abraham Michael Cardoso’s Theory of the Divine,”
in Exile and Diaspora: Studies in the History of the Jewish People Presented to Professor
Haim Beinart on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, ed. A. Mirsky, A. Grossman
and Y. Kaplan (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1988), 541–72. See
also Yosha’s master’s thesis from the Hebrew University on Cardoso. For a detailed
study of Cardoso’s view of the divine presence, see Elliot Wolfson, “Constructions
of the Shekhinah in the Messianic Theosophy of Abraham Cardoso,
With an Annotated Edition of Derush ha-Shekhinah,” Kabbalah 3 (1998): 11–
143. For a view opposing Scholem’s interpretation of Cardoso as a gnostic, see
Bruce Rosenstock, “Abraham Miguel Cardoso’s Messianism: A Reappraisal,”
Association for Jewish Studies Review 23:1 (1998): 63–104.
25. This is the surmise of Halperin; Cardozo, 118.
26. Tishby comments that she was apparently crippled.
27. Tishby says it should be the twenty-fifth.
28. Zizat Novel Zvi, 291–93. This and all material from this work quoted below are
my translations from the Hebrew unless otherwise noted.
29. Cardoso’s ideas concerning gender matters may be concealed in his complex
theology of the Adamic androgyne, discussed in Wolfson, “Constructions of
the Shekhinah,” 57–89.
30. Coenen, Ydele verwachtinge der Joden, 45.
31. Idel, “Shabbatai the Planet.”
32. See Halperin, Cardozo, part 1 and sources cited there; Goldish, “Patterns in
Converso Messianism”; Wolfson, “Constructions of the Shekhinah,” 29–57.
33. Goldish, “Patterns.”
34. See Jewish Christians and Christian Jews, ed. R. H. Popkin.
35. See Scholem, Sabbatai àevi, 352.
36. Ibid., 417–18.
37. Ibid., 241–44.
38. Coenen, Ydele verwachtinge der Joden, 53.
39. See Spirit Possession in Judaism, app. F (by Harris Lenowitz).
40. Goldish, “Early Messianic Career,” p. 481.
41. Jacques Basnage, The History of the Jews (London, 1708), 758.
42. Ibid., 53–54.
43. This point is made by Scholem, Sabbatai àevi, 418.
44. Tishby notes that this is a location on the island of Elba.