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The Sabbateans (or Sabbatians) were a variety of Jewish followers, disciples, and believers in Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), [1] [2] [3] an Ottoman Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah in 1666 by Nathan of Gaza.
The Dönme celebrated holidays associated with various points in Zevi's life and their history of conversion. Based at least partially on the Kabbalistic understanding of divinity, the Dönme believed that there was a three-way connection between the emanations of the divine, which engendered many conflicts with Muslim and Jewish communities ...
Sabbatai Zevi [a] (August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) [1] was an Ottoman Jewish mystic, and ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). [2] [3] His family origins may have been Ashkenazi or Sephardi.
Jacob Frank, 1895 depiction. Frankism is a Sabbatean religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, [1] created in Podolia, named after its founder, Jacob Frank.Frank completely rejected Jewish norms, preaching to his followers that they were obligated to transgress moral boundaries.
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (2002, 2006) notes that in the marsh areas of Southern Iraq, there was a continuous tradition of Mandaean religion, and that another pagan, or Sabian, centre in the tenth-century Islamic world centred on Harran. [59] These pagan Sabians are mentioned in the Nabataean corpus of Ibn Wahshiyya. [60]
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Nathan of Gaza was born in Jerusalem around 1643-1644; he died on Friday, January 11, 1680, in Sofia. [2] Although he grew up in Jerusalem, his parents were Ashkenazi. [2] ...
Samuel Primo (c. 1635 in Jerusalem – 1708 in Adrianople), was a prominent Sabbatean sectarian of the 17th century. [1]Primo was one of the earliest followers of Sabbatai Zevi, the self-proclaimed Jewish messiah.