Authors: Abraham Miguel Cardozo, David L. Halperin, David J. Halperin (Translator), Theresa M. Sparacio (Designed by), Michael Velthaus
ISBN-13: 9780809105328, ISBN-10: 0809105322
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Paulist Press
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Abraham Miguel Cardozo (1627-1706) is known primarily as a follower and defender of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He was that, indeed; but he was a great deal more than that as well. Cardozo was one of the most vivid, complex and original personalities to emerge within Judaism during the seventeenth century. An early modern Jew, he was above all an individual. Like his contemporary Spinoza, Cardozo suffered horribly for his individuality. Yet he remained faithful until his death -- his strange, violent, eerily messianic death -- to what he believed to be the true and authentic Jewish faith. Cardozo deserves to be known for himself.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Note to the Reader | ||
Table I | The Jewish Calendar | |
Table II | Weekly Torah Portions | |
Chronology of the Life of Abraham Cardozo | ||
The World of Abraham Cardozo (Map) | ||
Pt. 1 | The Man and his Universe | |
1 | Cardozo the Marrano | 5 |
2 | Cardozo the Kabbalist | 18 |
3 | Cardozo the Messiah-Bearer | 37 |
4 | Cardozo the Theologian | 60 |
5 | Cardozo the Magus | 71 |
6 | Cardozo the Wanderer | 82 |
7 | Who Was This Man? | 95 |
Pt. 2 | Cardozo Speaks | |
8 | Scenes from the Youth of a Maverick Theologian | 109 |
9 | Defending the Fallen Messiah | 117 |
10 | In Quest of the Hidden God | 168 |
11 | Mending a Disfigured Deity | 243 |
12 | Reminiscences of the Shechinah's Knight | 273 |
13 | Epitaph | 309 |
Notes | 311 | |
Selected Bibliography | 399 | |
Index | 404 |