Messianic Expectations in the Peloponnesos
The publication with commentary of a fragmentary letter dealing with some messianic manifestations and excitement in Sicily engendered a number of controversies a generation ago successfully clouding the potential value of this source for the study of East Mediterranean Jewish history in the Middle...
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| Medienart: | Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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College
1981
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Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Jahr: 1981, Band: 52, Seiten: 195-202 |
| RelBib Classification: | BH Judentum |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Messianism
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| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
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| Zusammenfassung: | The publication with commentary of a fragmentary letter dealing with some messianic manifestations and excitement in Sicily engendered a number of controversies a generation ago successfully clouding the potential value of this source for the study of East Mediterranean Jewish history in the Middle Ages. A reexamination of this document has elicited, through the identification of the place-name in the second part of the fragment, a connection with the Greece of the Frankish Crusaders. Further hints in the document allow for a suggested dating of the events to the mid thirteenth century. The discovery of a hitherto unknown Jewish community, Andravida, in the Frankish capital of Morea, has great significance for the history of thirteenth-century Greek Jewry. Further, the messianic excitement that stimulated East Mediterranean Jewry attending the onslaught of the Mongols has a bearing on the fascinating career of the peripatetic mystic Abraham Abulafia, whose arrival in Greece was nearly contemporary with the events related in this source. |
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| ISSN: | 0360-9049 |
| Enthält: | In: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
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