書目名稱 | Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture |
副標(biāo)題 | Volume I: Jewish Mes |
編輯 | Matt D. Goldish,Richard H. Popkin |
視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/635/634262/634262.mp4 |
叢書名稱 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées |
圖書封面 |  |
描述 | The earliest scientific studies of Jewish messianism were conducted by the scholars of the Wissenschaft des Judentums school, particularly Heinrich Graetz, the first great Jewish historian of the Jews since Josephus. These researches were invaluable because they utilized primary sources in print and manuscript which had been previously unknown or used only in polemics. The Wissenschaft studies themselves, however, prove to be polemics as well on closer inspection. Among the goals of this group was to demonstrate that Judaism is a rational and logical faith whose legitimacy and historical progress deserve recognition by the nations of Europe. Mystical and messianic beliefs which might undermine this image were presented as aberrations or the result of corrosive foreign influences on the Jews. Gershom Scholem took upon himself the task of returning mysticism and messianism to their rightful central place in the panorama of Jewish thought. Jewish messianism was, for Scholem, a central theme in the philosophy and life of the Jews throughout their history, shaped anew by each generation to fit its specific hopes and needs. Scholem emphasized that this phenomenon was essentially independ |
出版日期 | Book 2001 |
關(guān)鍵詞 | Christian kabbalists; Europe; Frankist movement; Freemasonry; Jewish Messianism; Kabbalah; Religion; Renais |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2278-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-5666-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-017-2278-0Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 |
issn_series | 0066-6610 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001 |