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The heresy of Jacob Frank : from Jewish messianism to esoteric myth /

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"The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth is the first monograph on the religious philosophy of Jacob Frank (1726–1791), who, in the wake of the false messiah Sabbetai Zevi, led the largest mass apostasy in Jewish history. Based on close readings of Frank's late t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michaelson, Jay, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Frank, Jacob, > approximately 1726-1791.
Frank, Jacob, > approximately 1726-1791
Pseudo-Messiahs > Biography.
Jewish messianic movements > Europe, Eastern > History.
Mysticism > Judaism > History > 18th century.
Judaism > Europe, Eastern > History > 18th century.
Faux messies > Biographies.
Messianisme juif > Europe de l'Est > Histoire.
Mysticisme > Judaïsme > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Judaïsme > Europe de l'Est > Histoire > 18e siècle.
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Judaism.
RELIGION.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Christianity.
Jewish messianic movements
Judaism
Mysticism > Judaism
Pseudo-Messiahs
Eastern Europe
1700-1799
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The boundary crosser
  • "I tell you everything and tell you nothing" : charlatan, fool, deviant, heretic
  • who was Jacob Frank?
  • "I do not look to heaven but at what God does here on Earth" : Frankist antinomianism as materialist skepticism
  • "Everything that is of the spirit has to be turned into flesh" : magic, myth, and the material imaginaire
  • "To make a man in wholeness, stable and possessing eternal life" : the occult quest for immortality
  • "With this deed we go to the naked thing" : sexual antinomianism as mystical messianism
  • "We have no need of books of Kabbalah" : rejecting Kabbalah and Sabbateanism
  • "The gods of the freemasons will have to do what those two have done" : Frankism as Western esotericism
  • "All religions change and go beyond the borders laid down by their ancestors" : foreshadowing secularism and spirituality.