A History of Messianic Speculation in Israel: From the First Through the Seventeenth Centuries

Abarbanel Abraham Abraham bar Hiyya Abulafia advent Akiba Amsterdam announced apocalypse Arabs astrology Bar Hiyya Bar Kochba believed Biblical Book of Daniel calculating the end Chap chapter Christ Christian coming commentary conjunction Crusade David destruction Deut Elijah exile expected the Messiah fifth figure Gematria Gersonides Halevi half Hebrew Ḥiyya Holy Ibid interpretation Isaac Ishmael Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jewry Jews Judah Kabbala Kabbalist Karaite king land letters Lord Lost Ten Tribes Maimonides Manasseh ben Israel Messiah ben Joseph Messianic calculations Messianic date Messianic hopes Messianic movement Messianic speculation Midrash Mohammedan Molko Moses mystic Naḥmanides Notarikon Palestine period persecutions Persia Poland prophecy prophet pseudo-Messiahs quoted Rabbi Eliezer Rashi redeemed Redemption refers repentance Reubeni revealed Rome Saadia says second Temple Sefer seventeenth century Shabbetai Zebi Shabbetian sianic Simeon sixth millennium Solomon supra Talmudic thou tion Torah Tribes unto verse words writes Zohar