'This volume is a major contribution to the understanding of Jewish and Christian messianism in early Modern Europe. It can be highly recommended to libraries and scholars of early Modern European intellectual history.' Religious Studies Review, 29:3 (2003)

• 1. The Messianism of Isaac Abarbanel, ‘Father of the [Jewish] Messianic Movements of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’.- 2. Patterns in Converso Messianism.- 3. Syncretism and Millennium in Herrera’s Kabbalah.- 4. Some Social Aspects of the Polemics between Sabbatians and their Opponents.- 5. Christian Interest and Concerns about Sabbatai Zevi.- 6. Kabbalistic Messianism versus Kabbalistic Enlightenment.- 7. The Last Deception: Failed Messiahs and Jewish Conversion in Early Modern German Lands.- 8. Messianism in the Christian Kabbalah of Johann Kemper.- 9. The Charlatan at the Gottes Haus in Offenbach.- 10. Dr. Samuel Jacob Falk: A Sabbatian Adventurer in the Masonic Underground.

'This volume is a major contribution to the understanding of Jewish and Christian messianism in early Modern Europe. It can be highly recommended to libraries and scholars of early Modern European intellectual history.' Religious Studies Review, 29:3 (2003)

• 1. The Messianism of Isaac Abarbanel, ‘Father of the [Jewish] Messianic Movements of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’.- 2. Patterns in Converso Messianism.- 3. Syncretism and Millennium in Herrera’s Kabbalah.- 4. Some Social Aspects of the Polemics between Sabbatians and their Opponents.- 5. Christian Interest and Concerns about Sabbatai Zevi.- 6. Kabbalistic Messianism versus Kabbalistic Enlightenment.- 7. The Last Deception: Failed Messiahs and Jewish Conversion in Early Modern German Lands.- 8. Messianism in the Christian Kabbalah of Johann Kemper.- 9. The Charlatan at the Gottes Haus in Offenbach.- 10. Dr. Samuel Jacob Falk: A Sabbatian Adventurer in the Masonic Underground.

'This volume is a major contribution to the understanding of Jewish and Christian messianism in early Modern Europe. It can be highly recommended to libraries and scholars of early Modern European intellectual history.' Religious Studies Review, 29:3 (2003)

• 1. The Messianism of Isaac Abarbanel, ‘Father of the [Jewish] Messianic Movements of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’.- 2. Patterns in Converso Messianism.- 3. Syncretism and Millennium in Herrera’s Kabbalah.- 4. Some Social Aspects of the Polemics between Sabbatians and their Opponents.- 5. Christian Interest and Concerns about Sabbatai Zevi.- 6. Kabbalistic Messianism versus Kabbalistic Enlightenment.- 7. The Last Deception: Failed Messiahs and Jewish Conversion in Early Modern German Lands.- 8. Messianism in the Christian Kabbalah of Johann Kemper.- 9. The Charlatan at the Gottes Haus in Offenbach.- 10. Dr. Samuel Jacob Falk: A Sabbatian Adventurer in the Masonic Underground.