The sabbatian who devoured his son: Jacob Emden's anti-sabbatian polemics of cannibalism

In an era when cannibalism occupied the European imagination and became a political weapon that could be effectively aimed against the Other within or elsewhere, as well as a test case for the concept of humanity, it is hardly surprising to find similar rhetoric in internal Jewish discourse of the e...

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Main Author: Alleson-Gerberg, Shai A. (Author)
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2019]
In: AJS review
Year: 2019, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-46
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sabbathianism / Amulet / Messiah / Eybeshits, Yehonatan ben Natan Nataʿ 1690-1764 / Emden, Jacob I. ca. um 1697-1776 / Cannibalism
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