The heresy of Jacob Frank : from Jewish messianism to esoteric myth / Jay Michaelson.
| Author/creator |
Michaelson, Jay, 1971- |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
| Description | 263 pages : charts ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Religion |
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| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-252) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022012686 |
| ISBN | 9780197530634 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780197651025 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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