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Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel, written by Martha Himmelfarb

Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel, written by Martha... Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 232; €36.00, $39.95 (hb). isbn 9780674057623.Sefer Zerubbabel is “the first Jewish text in which the complementary roles in the eschatological drama of two different messiahs (…) are described in some detail,” and it is “deeply informed by its encounter with Christian messianism” (144). Nobody is better qualified to write the first book-length study of Sefer Zerubbabel (hereafter sz) than Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton University). Over the past three decades she has enriched our knowledge of this curious document by publishing a series of articles on various interpretative problems of the text. In this new and encompassing study of sz, she presents us with the ripe fruits of her long involvement with this fascinating piece of late antique Jewish eschatological speculation. sz is a Hebrew text written in the early decades of the seventh century ce, after the Persian conquest of Jerusalem but before the rise of Islam. After an introductory chapter, containing inter alia a sketch of the contents of sz, Himmelfarb presents a survey of the bewildering transmission history of the text:The witnesses consist of four manuscripts, a printed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of Judaism Brill

Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel, written by Martha Himmelfarb

van der Horst, Pieter W.
Journal for the Study of Judaism , Volume 48 (3): 3 – Aug 11, 2017
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Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 232; €36.00, $39.95 (hb). isbn 9780674057623.Sefer Zerubbabel is “the first Jewish text in which the complementary roles in the eschatological drama of two different messiahs (…) are described in some detail,” and it is “deeply informed by its encounter with Christian messianism” (144). Nobody is better qualified to write the first book-length study of Sefer Zerubbabel (hereafter sz) than Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton University). Over the past three decades she has enriched our knowledge of this curious document by publishing a series of articles on various interpretative problems of the text. In this new and encompassing study of sz, she presents us with the ripe fruits of her long involvement with this fascinating piece of late antique Jewish eschatological speculation. sz is a Hebrew text written in the early decades of the seventh century ce, after the Persian conquest of Jerusalem but before the rise of Islam. After an introductory chapter, containing inter alia a sketch of the contents of sz, Himmelfarb presents a survey of the bewildering transmission history of the text:The witnesses consist of four manuscripts, a printed

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