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Toward the millenium : messianic expectations from the Bible to Waco / edited by Peter Schäfer and Mark Cohen.

Contributor(s): Schäfer, Peter, 1943- | Cohen, Mark R, 1943-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions: Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: vi, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004110372 (alk. paper); 9789004110373 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Messianism -- Congresses | Jewish messianic movements -- Congresses | Millennialism -- Congresses | Political messianism -- CongressesDDC classification: 291.2/3 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Mark R. Cohen and Peter Schf̃er -- Diversity and interaction : Messiahs in early Judaism / Peter Schf̃er -- Messiahs and their followers / John G. Gager -- Messianic elements in the prechristian Greco-Roman world / Christian Habicht -- Midrash and Messianism : some theologies of suffering and salvation / Michael Fishbane -- Armilus : the Jewish antichrist and the origins and dating of the Sefer Zerubbavel / Joseph Dan -- Jewish messianic expectations towards 1240 and Christian reactions / Israel Jacob Yuval -- The eschatological imperative : messianism and the holy war in Europe, 1260-1556 / Norman Housley -- The millennial moment : revolution and radical religion in sixteenth century Spain / Sara T. Nalle -- Saturn and Sabbatai Tzevi : a new approach to sabbateanism / Moshe Idel -- The engenderment of messianic politics : symbolic significance of Sabbatai Sevi's coronation / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Salvation through philology : the poetical messianism of Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651-1689) / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- The messianic claim of Ghulām Aḥmad / Yohanan Friedmann -- Messianism in the political culture of the Weimar Republic / Klaus Schreiner -- Lines, circles, points : messianic epistemology in Cohen, Rosenzweig and Benjamin / Robert Gibbs -- The Lubavitch messianic resurgence : the historical and mystical background 1939-1996 / Rachel Elior -- Patterns of the end : textual weaving from Qumran to Waco / James D. Tabor.

Introduction / Mark R. Cohen and Peter Schf̃er -- Diversity and interaction : Messiahs in early Judaism / Peter Schf̃er -- Messiahs and their followers / John G. Gager -- Messianic elements in the prechristian Greco-Roman world / Christian Habicht -- Midrash and Messianism : some theologies of suffering and salvation / Michael Fishbane -- Armilus : the Jewish antichrist and the origins and dating of the Sefer Zerubbavel / Joseph Dan -- Jewish messianic expectations towards 1240 and Christian reactions / Israel Jacob Yuval -- The eschatological imperative : messianism and the holy war in Europe, 1260-1556 / Norman Housley -- The millennial moment : revolution and radical religion in sixteenth century Spain / Sara T. Nalle -- Saturn and Sabbatai Tzevi : a new approach to sabbateanism / Moshe Idel -- The engenderment of messianic politics : symbolic significance of Sabbatai Sevi's coronation / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Salvation through philology : the poetical messianism of Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651-1689) / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- The messianic claim of Ghulām Aḥmad / Yohanan Friedmann -- Messianism in the political culture of the Weimar Republic / Klaus Schreiner -- Lines, circles, points : messianic epistemology in Cohen, Rosenzweig and Benjamin / Robert Gibbs -- The Lubavitch messianic resurgence : the historical and mystical background 1939-1996 / Rachel Elior -- Patterns of the end : textual weaving from Qumran to Waco / James D. Tabor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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