ISBN:
9789004679115
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
1993
Series Statement:
Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 6
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Jews of Yemen in the Nineteenth Century : A Portrait of a Messianic Community
Keywords:
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
Jewish messianic movements History
;
Judaism History
Abstract:
This book discusses the uniqueness of messianic aspirations of the nineteenth-century jews of Yemen, and displays the unprecedented role that these aspirations played in all sectors of their life. The study employs a diachronic approach; it presents the development of Jewish messianic expressions in Yemen and explains how Jewish messianic ideology and movements were receptive to eschatological notions and to messianic movements of Yemeni Muslims. Particular attention is devoted to the messianic movements of Shukr Kuhayl I (1861-65), Shukr Kuhayl II (1868-75), and Yosef 'Abdallah (1888-93). Other themes include Yemeni Jewish apocalyptic literature, messianic motifs in rabbinic writings and messianic expressions in the Yemeni Jewish waves of migration to Palestine (1881-1914)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Preliminary Material /
,
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004679115
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