From lowly metaphor to divine flesh
Subtitle: Sarah the Ashkenazi, Sabbatai Tsevi's messianic queen and the Sabbatian movement
By: Alexander van der Haven
Series: Menasseh ben Israel Instituut studies -- nr. 7; Menasseh ben Israel Instituut studies -- nr. 7.
Publisher: Menasseh ben Israel Instituut
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9789081586054
Subjects: Sabbathaians; Jewish messianic movements; Mysticism; Judaism; Women; History
Description: 79 p. : 21 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-79).                                                                             .
Table of contents: title: The metaphor's rebellion in the Sabbatian movement; title: Imagining Sarah, imagining Sabbatianism; title: The life of a messianic spouse (c. 1640-1674); title: Livorno: birth of a sexual Sarah; title: The prostitute and the ascetic mystics; title: Earthly queen, heavenly shekhinah; title: A debaucherous prophetess; title: Donning the turban; title: Sarah's gender and female and erotic symbolism in Jewish mysticism; title: From eros to sexuality: the shekinah and female bodies; title: Sabbatianism and its spousal theosis.