TY  - BOOK
AU  - Himmelfarb,Martha
TI  - Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel 
SN  - 9780674979086
AV  - BM615 .H56 2017eb
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Apocalyptic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Influence
KW  - Eschatology, Jewish
KW  - Messiah
KW  - Judaism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Text and Context --; 2. The Mother of the Messiah --; 3. The Messiah Son of David and the Suffering Servant --; 4. The Servant-Messiah beyond Sefer Zerubbabel --; 5. The Dying Messiah Son of Joseph --; 6. Sefer Zerubbabel after Islam --; Conclusion --; Appendix. Translation of Sefer Zerubbabel according to the Sefer Hazikhronot Manuscript --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
N2  - The seventh-century CE Hebrew work Sefer Zerubbabel (Book of Zerubbabel)—a tale of two messiahs—is the first full-fledged messianic narrative in Jewish literature. Martha Himmelfarb offers a comprehensive analysis of this rich understudied text, illuminating its distinctive literary features and the complex milieu from which it arose
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