Brandon Marriott

Transnational Networks and Cross-Religious Exchange in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds (eBook, ePUB)

Sabbatai Sevi and the Lost Tribes of Israel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1644 the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe and the Ottoman Empire fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of millenarian expectation, culminating in the claims of Sabbatai Sevi to be the Jewish messiah. By situating this transmission in a historical context stretching back to 1492, this book reveals the importance of early-modern crises, diasporas and newsgathering networks in generating eschatological constructs and transforming them through a process of intercultural dissemination into complex new hybrid religious conceptions and identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317006725
• Artikelnr.: 44864307

Autorenporträt

Brandon Marriott received his doctoral degree in early modern European history from the University of Oxford in 2012. His publications and presentations centre on cross-religious interactions in the early modern Abrahamic world. He has recently worked as a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University and held a short-term fellowship at the Warburg Institute to undertake research on his next project: a cross-religious history of Gog and Magog.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The lost tribes in the Americas: Judeo-Christian reciprocity across the Atlantic world (1648-1666)
New monarchs or grand impostors? James Nayler and Sabbatai Sevi (1656-1666)
Who sacked Mecca? The life of a rumour (1665-1666)
A Jewish Messiah among Christians: the evolution of European perceptions of Sabbatai Sevi (1665-1666)
Conclusion
Appendix
Select bibliography
Index.