Judaica 5 Erlösung durch Sünde

by Gershom Scholem

Scholem schildert die Geschichte der Anhänger des jüdischen Mystikers und Messias Sabbatai Zwi (1626-1676) nach Konversion und Tod ihres Gründers. Erlösung durch Sünde verlängert die historische Linie von Scholems großer Monographie und hebt deren Grundmoment hervor: daß nämlich die Sünde die Erlösung vorbereite, daß der Messias durch alle Verderbnisse und Unzulänglichkeiten der Welt hindurch müsse.

168 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 1992

About the author

Gerhard Scholem, who, after his immigration from Germany to Israel, changed his name to Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גרשם שלום), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His close friends included Walter Benjamin and Leo Strauss, and selected letters from his correspondence with those philosophers have been published.

Scholem is best known for his collection of lectures, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941) and for his biography Sabbatai Zevi, the Mystical Messiah (1973). His collected speeches and essays, published as On Kabbalah and its Symbolism (1965), helped to spread knowledge of Jewish mysticism among non-Jews.