The Sabbatai Zevi Messianic Movement
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Is the Messiah Like a Large Pumpkin?
The messiah is more like the blue ribbon you get for being good spiritual jews. He seed him saying, yes, ye. It was a convergence of circumstances and personalities that can seem really bizarre if you don't understand how those things go together. And sabatites v he's a rabbi who's born and raised in smyrna, in this city that's largely turkish and moslem, but has jewish and christian communities as well.
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