Saturn's Jews

Saturn's Jews
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781441137319
ISBN-13 : 1441137319
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Book Synopsis Saturn's Jews by : Moshe Idel

Download or read book Saturn's Jews written by Moshe Idel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week. Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late 14th century Sefer Ha-Peliyah was to have disturbing consequences in the Jewish world three centuries later, interweaving luminaries with the cultural, historical, religious, and philosophical concepts of their day, and demonstrating how cultural agents were inadvertently instrumental in the mid-17th-century mass-movement Sabbateanism that led to the conviction that Sabbatai Tzevi was the Messiah. Exploring how the tragic misperception of the Jewish Sabbath by the non-Jewish world led to a linkage of Jews with sorcery in 14th and 15th-century Europe, associating their holy day with the witches' 'Sabbat' gathering, Idel brings this wide-ranging study into the present day with an analysis of 20th-century scholarship and thought influenced by Saturnism, particularly lingering themes related to melancholy in the works of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin.


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