Sabbatai Sevi : the mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 /
Gershom Scholem
- New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c1973
- xxvii, 999 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
1. The Background of the Sabbatian movement -- 2. The Beginnings of Sabbatai Sevi (1626-1664) -- 3. The Beginnings of the movement in Palestine (1665) -- 4. The Movement up to Sabbatai's imprisonment in Gallipoli -- 5. The Movement in Europe -- 6. The Movement in the East and the center in Gallipoli until Sabbatai's apostasy (1666) -- 7. After the Apostasy (1667-1668) -- 8. The Last years of Sabbatai Sevi
A detailed history of Sabbatian movement, the most important messianic movement in Judaism since the destruction of the Second Temple, has long been badly lacking in Jewish historiography.