The Birth Pangs of the Messiah Transnational Networks and Cross-Religious Exchange in the Age of Sabb

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The Birth Pangs of the Messiah Transnational Networks and Cross-Religious Exchange in the Age of Sabb is written by Brandon Marriott and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1472435850 (ISBN 10) and 9781472435859 (ISBN 13).

In 1644 the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe and the Ottoman Empire fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of millenarian expectation, culminating in the claims of Sabbatai Sevi to be the Jewish messiah. By situating this transmission in a historical context stretching back to 1492, this book reveals the importance of early-modern crises, diasporas and newsgathering networks in generating eschatological constructs and transforming them through a process of intercultural dissemination into complex new hybrid religious conceptions and identities.