History of Messianic Speculation in Israel

The nucleus of this book is a doctorate thesis which the author compiled in order to trace the story of Messianic calculations in Israel from the destruction to the Shabbetai Zebi movement, as well as to analyze their method and technique, point out their historic consequences, and to disclose the consistent opposition to them throughout the centuries. Selected contents: the Talmudic period; the Mohammedan period; the period of the crusades; the sixteenth century; the seventeenth century; opposition to Messianic calculation; Talmudic, methodology.