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The heresy of Jacob Frank : from Jewish messianism to esoteric myth
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- Creator
- Jay Michaelson
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Physical Details
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- 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780197530658, 9780197530665, 9780197530634, 9780197530641, 019753063X, 0197530656, 019765102X, 0197530648, 9780197651025, 0197530664
- OCLC
- on1325678535, on1324246534
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.
- Introduction: The boundary crosser -- "I tell you everything and tell you nothing" : charlatan, fool, deviant, heretic -- who was Jacob Frank? -- "I do not look to heaven but at what God does here on Earth" : Frankist antinomianism as materialist skepticism -- "Everything that is of the spirit has to be turned into flesh" : magic, myth, and the material imaginaire -- "To make a man in wholeness, stable and possessing eternal life" : the occult quest for immortality -- "With this deed we go to the naked thing" : sexual antinomianism as mystical messianism -- "We have no need of books of Kabbalah" : rejecting Kabbalah and Sabbateanism -- "The gods of freemasonry will have to do that which those two did" : Frankism as Western esotericism -- "All religions change and go beyond the borders laid down by their ancestors" : foreshadowing secularism and spirituality