513)--, quien finalmente decide sumarse a las huestes de
Sabbatai Zevi, uno mas de los falsos autoproclamados Mesias de la historia de la humanidad.
Even as Jewish prohibitions against idolatry cause the painter Elias Ambrosius, who studies under Rembrandt, to face excommunication and exile, the much more heretical and dangerous
Sabbatai Zevi roams the Middle East with fervent and ever-increasing support for his messianic claims.
Notable failed end of the world predictions has come from Pope Innocent III, who predicted that the world would end in 1284, 666 years after the founding of Islam;
Sabbatai Zevi, who claimed to be the Messiah and used the Kabbalah to predict the Earth's demise in 1648; and of course, the Mayan apocalypse theory that claimed the world would end on December 21, 2012.
En particular, se explica que por esa via entro el sabatianismo, un movimiento mesianico inspirado en las interpretaciones cabalisticas de
Sabbatai Zevi que consiguio mucho apoyo (y, a la vez, mucho resentimiento) entre los judios mediterraneos y europeos.
Second, the internalizing of the messianic event is represented by Hasidism after the failure of
Sabbatai Zevi, who notably converted to Islam at the threat of death.
WOMEN AND THE MESSIANIC HERESY OF
SABBATAI ZEVI 1666-1816, by Ada Rapoport-Albert, translated by Deborah Greniman.
David Halperin, author of
Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah, has recently released his first novel, Journal of a UFO Investigator.