Jacob Frank's 'Book of the Words of the Lord': Mystical Automythography, Religious Nihilism and the Messianic Vision of Freedom as a Realization of My

by R Elior

This book is concerned with the exceptional history and unprecedented thought of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), a Messianic antinomistic Jewish-Moslem-Christian leader, active in the second half of the 18th Century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Othman empire, Moravia and Germany. Frank grew up in the Donme circles in Salonika (Donme was the Turkish name of the Moslem-Jews who were followers of the messianic leader Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042936509
• ISBN13: 9789042936508
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"