Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History / Edition 1

by Marc Saperstein

Overview

The messianic idea that a redeemer sent by God will come to end the suffering of a persecuted people and inaugurate a new age of justice and peace has been one of the most powerful and influential concepts given by the Jewish people to western civilization. This book represents a sample of the most penetrating and provocative scholarly interpretations of Jewish messianic movement from various perspectives- historical, sociological, psychological, and religious.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814779439
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1992
Series:	Essential Papers on Jewish Studies , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Marc Saperstein, who previously held the first regular faculty appointment in Jewish Studies at Harvard divinity school, is currently Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St Louis.

Editorial Reviews

A collection of 22 essays, originally published over a period of some 75 years, and representing various kinds of diversity: Jewish and Christian scholars, Israelis and Americans, textual and conceptual approaches, older studies that have become classics and recent accounts of new discoveries, idiosyncratic interpretations and statements of consensus, broad surveys and analyses of specific events. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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