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Papers, ed. M. Saperstein, 377–88; Zvi Mark, “Dybbuk and Devekut in the
Shivhe ha-Besht: Toward a Phenomenology of Madness in Early Hasidism,” in
Spirit Possession in Judaism, 257–301. Mark offers superb insights into the reception
history of Sabbatean prophecy and its impact.
10. Carlebach, “The Last Deception.”
11. Richard H. Popkin, “Christian Interest and Concerns,” 91–106; Michael Heyd,
“The ‘Jewish Quaker’: Christian Perceptions of Sabbatai Zevi as an Enthusiast,”
in Hebraica Veritas Christian Hebraists, Jews, and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern
Europe, ed. A. P. Coudert and J. S. Shoulson (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
12. See e.g. Matt Goldish, “Halakhah, Kabbalah, and Heresy: A Controversy in
Early Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam,” Jewish Quarterly Review 84 (1993–4):
153–76, esp. 170–71.
13. Ze’ev Gries, Conduct Literature (Regimen Vitae): Its History and Place in the Life of
Beshtian Hasidism [Hebrew] (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1989), 91–93.
14. Carlebach, Pursuit of Heresy, 51–52.
15. See Idel, “‘One from a Town’”; and Chapter 1 above.
16. Scholem, “Redemption Through Sin.” For critiques of Scholem see Shmuel
Werses, Haskalah and Sabbatianism: The Story of a Controversy [Hebrew] (Jerusalem:
Shazar Center, 1988); Jacob Katz, “The Suggested Relationship Between
Sabbatianism, Haskalah and Reform,” in Katz, Divine Law in Human Hands: Case
Studies in Halakhic Flexibility (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1998), 504–30.
17. This approach was devised by Hillel Levine, “Frankism as a ‘Cargo Cult’ and
the Haskalah Connection: Myth, Ideology and the Modernization of Jewish
Consciouness,” in Essays in Modern Jewish History: A Tribute to Ben Halperin, ed. F.
Molino and P. C. Albert (Rutherford, N.J.: Farleigh Dickenson University Press,
1982), 81–94.
18. Scholem, “Redemption Through Sin,” 84.
19. This view of the movement is quite similar to that of Scholem’s nemesis, the
Wissenschaft des Judentums historian Heinrich Graetz. Graetz was writing an
apologetic and polemical history, so he did not make a really sincere attempt to
understand the Sabbateans on their own terms.
20. See Lewinsohn (Morus), Prophets and Prediction.
21. See, for example, Paul Feyerabend, Against Method (London: Verso, 1978); Steven
Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and
the Experimental Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).