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03870aam a2200385 i 4500 001 4E0803B2F83511E784964A6B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180113013733 008 160922t20172017mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016043277 020 $a 0674057627 020 $a 9780674057623 035 $a (OCoLC)959648553 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d BDX $d HUC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OBE $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a mm----- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/mm 050 00 $a BM615 $b .H56 2017 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/BM1-BM990 082 00 $a 296.3/36 $2 23 100 1 $a Himmelfarb, Martha, $d 1952- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82158219 245 10 $a Jewish messiahs in a Christian empire : $b a history of the Book of Zerubbabel / $c Martha Himmelfarb. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 220 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-206) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Text and context -- The mother of the messiah -- The messiah son of David and the suffering servant -- The servant-messiah beyond Sefer Zerubbabel -- The dying messiah son of Joseph -- Sefer Zerubbabel after Islam -- Conclusion -- Appendix : translation of Sefer Zerubbabel according to the Sefer Hazikhronot manuscript. 520 $a Sefer Zerubbabel, the Book of Zerubbabel, is a Hebrew apocalyptic work composed during the wars between the Byzantine and Persian empires in the early decades of the seventh century of this era, shortly before the Muslim conquest of the Middle East. Himmelfarb places Sefer Zerubbael's narrative in the context of Christian tradition and contemporary Byzantine culture on the one hand and earlier Jewish eschatological traditions on the other. The impact of the Christian messianic narrative can be seen in Sefer Zerubbabel's depiction of the messiah son of David in terms of Isaiah's suffering servant and in the death and resurrection of the messiah son of Joseph, while contemporary Byzantine ideas about the Virgin as the patron and protector of Constantinople help to make sense of Sefer Zerubbabel's otherwise startling depiction of the mother of the messiah as a warrior defending Jerusalem. Sefer Zerubbabel also shows many points of contact with traditions about the messiah in rabbinic literature, but, the author argues, it is not dependent on the rabbinic formulation of those traditions. Rather, both the rabbis and Sefer Zerubbabel drew on popular traditions, which they reshaped for their own purposes. The rabbis tend to play down messianic hopes while Sefer Zerubbabel embraces them more enthusiastically. Thus reading Sefer Zerubbabel and rabbinic literature side by side allows us to recover some elements of the popular Jewish messianism of the early centuries of the Christian era. The book concludes by considering Sefer Zerubbabel's impact on a corpus of Jewish eschatological texts from the centuries after the rise of Islam.-- $c Provided by publisher. 630 00 $a Sefer Zerubbabel. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016128992 650 0 $a Messiah $x Judaism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89003006 650 0 $a Apocalyptic literature $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101191 650 0 $a Eschatology, Jewish. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044794 650 0 $a Christianity $x Influence. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009119588 650 0 $a Apocryphal books (Old Testament) $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Judaism $z Byzantine Empire $x History $y Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 $v Sources. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021828.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4E0803B2F83511E784964A6B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search