Messianism In Modern Jewish Movements (Since 18th Up To Now)

Author:
Somayye Rezapour Kojidi
Level:
Master
Field of study:
Abrahamic Religions
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Religions
Year:
2014
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Hossein Soleimani
Advisor(s):
Ali Shahbazi

For thousands of years the Jewish people are looking forward to his messianic savior. The belief that makes for the people hearts and hopes for liberation from suffering of dispersion and diaspora. Of course, this belief in different historical periods have gone through many twists and turns and has been changed a lot. Even in many cases many Jews were at the mercy of impostors that put themselves on messiah as the result of difficult social conditions and excess hope. But perhaps we can say the most important historical twist about this belief has occured in the same period of our discussion that is referred to the modern era. A time that whit its the widespread political and intellectual transitions and revolutions not only on Jewish beliefs but had a significant impact on the entire world. This work intends to investigate jewish messianism in modern era or to speak more clearly from the eighteenth century to the present time.