Transnational networks and cross-religious exchange in the seventeenth-century mediterranean and atlantic worlds: sabbatai sevi and the lost tribes of israel
Auteur :
Marriott, Brandon
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781032928715
Date de publication :
14 oct. 2024
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In 1644 the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe and the Ottoman Empire fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of millenarian expectation, culminating in the claims of Sabbatai Sevi to be the Jewish messiah. By situating this transmission in a histo