Reading the Gospel of John's Christology as
Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs
(5 )In the Chronica, Jewish immobility seems to represent an imaginative overcoming of
Jewish messianism through a fantasy about Christ depriving a Jew of any such temporal control.
Butz of Pennsylvania State University says James Tabor is a meticulous historian who lucidly demonstrates in this new book that Paul's Hellenistic Judaism contrasted and clashed with the
Jewish Messianism of Jesus' brother, James.
In the subsequent chapter, Michael Lowy investigates the relationship between
Jewish messianism and psychoanalytic contributions to critical criminology.
The studies characterize the intellectual history of the first
Jewish messianism, looking first at the birth of messianism across the divinization of kings in ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Canaanite cultures.
While the study's focus is novel and thus a welcome addition to the literature on Sabbateanism, Hasidism, and
Jewish messianism, neither the argument of the book nor the evidence presented vary much from what Gershom Scholem published on gender and sexuality in the Sabbatean and Frankist movements.
(8) Scholem develops this argument in his work on
Jewish Messianism (The Messianic Idea) as well as in his work on the Sabbatian movement (Sabbatai Sevi).
Hence,
Jewish Messianism as taught and practiced by the likes of Moshe Feiglin and other terrorists of Gush Emunim has no human face let alone a human heart and is effectively comparable to German Nazism.
The biblical episodes discussed above, and their reverberation in later Jewish religious literature, may not represent dominant motives of
Jewish messianism, but they nevertheless articulate insights that are found within the enormous corpus of teachings about the messianic idea in Judaism.
Part 1 deals with studies of law and messianism, and it includes Taubes' 1983 criticism of Gershon Scholem's concept of
Jewish messianism, a paper Taubes presented at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in 1981.
Jewish messianism has always played a prominent role in the Zionist enterprise.
I [Makow] think he exaggerates the importance of
Jewish messianism but I may be wrong.