Jewish messiahs in a Christian empire : a history of the Book of Zerubbabel /

Sefer Zerubbabel, the Book of Zerubbabel, is a Hebrew apocalyptic work composed during the wars between the Byzantine and Persian empires in the early decades of the seventh century of this era, shortly before the Muslim conquest of the Middle East. Himmelfarb places Sefer Zerubbael's narrative...

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Tác giả chính: Himmelfarb, Martha, 1952- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1491550
Mục lục:
  • Introduction
  • Text and context
  • The mother of the messiah
  • The messiah son of David and the suffering servant
  • The servant-messiah beyond Sefer Zerubbabel
  • The dying messiah son of Joseph
  • Sefer Zerubbabel after Islam
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : translation of Sefer Zerubbabel according to the Sefer Hazikhronot manuscript.