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From lowly metaphor to divine flesh : Sarah the Ashkenazi, Sabbatai Tsevi's messianic queen and the Sabbatian movement / Alexander van der Haven.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van der Haven, Alexander.
- Series:
- Menasseh ben Israel Instituut studies ; nr. 7.
- Menasseh ben Israel Instituut studies ; nr. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sarah, the Ashkenazi, approximately 1640-1674.
- Sarah.
- Shabbethai Tzevi, 1626-1676.
- Shabbethai Tzevi.
- Sabbathaians.
- Jewish messianic movements.
- Mysticism--Judaism.
- Mysticism.
- Women--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- Women.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Menasseh ben Israel Instituut, 2012.
- Contents:
- The metaphor's rebellion in the Sabbatian movement
- Imagining Sarah, imagining Sabbatianism
- The life of a messianic spouse (c. 1640-1674)
- Livorno: birth of a sexual Sarah
- The prostitute and the ascetic mystics
- Earthly queen, heavenly shekhinah
- A debaucherous prophetess
- Donning the turban
- Sarah's gender and female and erotic symbolism in Jewish mysticism
- From eros to sexuality: the shekinah and female bodies
- Sabbatianism and its spousal theosis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-79)..
- ISBN:
- 9789081586054
- 908158605X
- OCLC:
- 775342382
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