Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas by Yaacob Dweck

Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas

Yaacob Dweck

504 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion reflective slow-paced
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A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certainty In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announc...

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